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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripol [/color][/size][size=21][color:e600=#00ff00]Early life (p2)[/b][/color][/size][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]
When Shakira was four, her father took her to a local Middle Eastern [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Restaurant][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]restaurant[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00], where Shakira first heard the [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Doumbek][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]doumbek[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00], a traditional [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Drum][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]drum[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] used in Arabic music and which typically accompanied [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Belly_dancing][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]belly dancing[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00].[/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-rollingstone-10][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00][11][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] Before she knew it, Shakira was dancing on the table, as restaurant patrons responded by clapping enthusiastically. It was then that Shakira said she knew she wanted to be a performer. She enjoyed singing for schoolmates and teachers (and even the nuns) at her Catholic school, but in the second grade was rejected for the school choir because her [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Vibrato][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]vibrato[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] was too strong. The music teacher told her that she sounded "like a goat".[/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-rollingstone-10][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00][11][/u]HYPERLINK \l "cite_note-11"[u][12][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] At school, she says she had been known as "the [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Belly_dancer][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]belly dancer[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] girl", as she would demonstrate a number she learned every Friday at school.[/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-rollingstone-10][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00][11][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] "That's how I discovered my passion for live performance," she says.[/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-usaweekend-9][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00][10][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]
Between the ages of ten and thirteen Shakira was invited to various events in Barranquilla and gained some recognition in the area.[/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-Gale-12][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00][13][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] It was at about this time that she met local theater producer Monica Ariza, who was impressed with her and as a result tried to help her career. During a flight from Barranquilla to [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Bogot%C3%A1][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]Bogotá[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00], Ariza convinced [/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/wiki/Sony][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]Sony[/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00] Colombia executive Ciro Vargas to hold an audition for Shakira in a hotel lobby. Vargas held Shakira in high regard and, returning to the Sony office, gave the cassette to a song and artist director. However, the director was not overly excited and thought Shakira was something of "a lost cause". Vargas, not daunted, was still convinced that Shakira had talent, and set up an audition in Bogotá. He arranged for Sony Colombia executives to arrive at the audition, with the idea of surprising them with Shakira's performance. She performed three songs for the executives and impressed them enough for her to be signed to record three albums.[/color][/size][url=https://algassania2.mam9.com/l%20cite_note-driven-13][u][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00][14][/u][/color][/size][/url][size=25][color:e600=#00ff00]
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