Shakira Trivia and Related Things

• Announced engagement to Antonio de la Rua, son of the then president of Argentina. [March 2001]


• Is the youngest of eight siblings.


• Shakira is Arabic for "grateful" or "full of grace."


• Named her album "Laundry Service" because when she is in love she feels "clean and fresh"


• Fluent in Portuguese, Italian, and English, in addition to Spanish.


• Hates to wear jewelry.


• Her Lebanese grandmother taught her the art of Arabian Belly Dancing so she can stay true to her middle eastern roots


• Has perfect pitch (the ability to recognize any note upon hearing it or sing any note without prior to hearing it)


• Her manager for Latin America, Patricia Tellez, the woman who helped her go from being local artist to Grammy-winning global artist, died of a heart attack in Bogota on 17 August 2004.


• Ranked #9 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).


• She likes chocolate.


• When she was two years old her oldest half-brother died in an accident while he was riding a motorcycle and a drunk man hit him with his car.


• Her first tape was Donna Summers' Bad girls.


• Natural haircolour is black.


• Favourite flowers are sunflower and daisy.


• Sport - likes to play tennis and swimming.


• Has three dogs - Coquito, Chan and Gordita.


• In 2007, Forbes Magazine reported that her 2006 earnings were estimated at $38 million.