...they as well can become like her. Shakira has stated in one interview "I have no idea of where I want to go musically, but I'm fine that way. I don't need to remain faithful to any concept, you know." (Hooper, “Shakira’s Prime Time”) This quote is significant because it proves that she loves to do her own thing and succeeds in doing that. You don’t need to know exactly where your life is going but in the end that’s fine and you should be happy. She really stands for that. Shakira had to work very hard in order to be where she is today. There was many peop;e that doubted her that sge sould actually be somebosy in the music industry. Very early on at age 2 she encounters an experience with dealth, her brother was killed by a drunk drver. She says "It made me very necrophobic," she tells Scottish newspaper The Herald. "For a long time I feared death in all its aspects." (Wang, “Celebrity Central: Shakira”). After working hard, she got a record deal with Sony Columbia, and released an album but unfortuanly it wasn’t popular selling only about 1,000 copies. Soon after she tries something different and decided to act. But then again that didn’t go very well either, “ was a very bad actress," she told London's Observer newspaper. "But I had a lot of fun." (Wang, “Celebrity Central: Shakira”) She gained popularity when she released the album Pies Delcalzos (Bare Feet) and that was her first rock album. Two years later she starts getting more attention and sells over a million...
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