10 Things You Didn't Know About Shakira

You might know colombian superstar and Artist of the Month Shakira for Hips Don't Lie and Whenever Wherever but here are some interesting facts you might not know about her...

1.     Shakira recorded her debut studio album Magia when she was just 13 years old!

2.     According to her ex husband Antonio De La Rua, Shakira “hated” the track Hips Don’t Lie which then went on to become the biggest selling song of the 21^st century worldwide.

3.     Shakira wrote her first poem La Rose De Cristal (The Crystal Rose) when she was just 4 years old.

4.     Shakira is in the worlds cleverest 1%.

5.     Shakira’s albums Fijacion Oral vol.1 and Oral Fixation vol.2 got their title from oral being Shakira’s biggest source of pleasure! (kissing surely…)

6.     Shakira turned down collaborations from Pitbull twice for personal reasons however they have collaborated 3 times together.

7.     Shakira was known as “the belly dancing girl” in her school.

8.     Shakira’s native language is Spanish, she is also fluent in English and Portuguese. She also speaks a little Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic

9.     Shakira is the cousin of Valerie Dominguez, who is a beauty pageant title-holder.

10. In 1996 Shakira starred in a Colombian soap opera El Oasis, however it was cancelled, as it was highly unsuccessful.