Shakira is a Rockstar

Shakira is a Rockstar
By: Adriana Rodriguez


The article I chose was about Shakira and how the U.S. views her as pop star, when in reality she considers herself to be a rock-star. Shakira is not a new artist, at least not to me. She has made five CD’s in Spanish before she came out with her cross-over album “Laundry Service”. She has recently started up her first arena headlining tour in the U.S. to show who she really is. She wants to get rid of the pop icon image that the MTV generation has portrayed her as.
Shakira was born in Barranquilla Colombia and moved to Miami as a teenager. She is now twenty-five and still lives in Miami with her parents. She started writing and playing guitar a t a very young age and was considered a child prodigy. To Latin America she has been around for seven years. She was not a new artist when recently came out with her single “Whenever Wherever”, I was a b...