Shakira Infancy

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born 2 February 1977 to Barranquilla, a harbor locality of Colombia on the Mar of the Caribbeanses, considered a liveliest city of dances and colors in occasion of its famous Carnival. The family of Shakira is composed from the newyorkese William Mebarak Chadid, writer and gioielliere of libanesi origins, and from Nidia of the Carmen Ripoll Torrado, Columbian of birth but of Italian and Spanish origins. Already smallest she began to cultivate the interest for the show: to the age of 5 years she revealed its predisposition to the dances and the Arabic songs. According to how much its mother tells, Shakira from child loved to write, to that to the family the suspicion sovvenne that it wanted to become a scrittrice:
“The child began to obsess itself with science, until I did not suppose that it would have become a investigatrice, but after sluices in its small room night and day to write storys and poetries. It tricked us of new when we thought to have had a scrittrice daughter, until I have uncovered who this of the writing was not that the first step and this that it was writing they were the witnesses of its songs. ”

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