Shakira Laundry Service
“Music of Shakira is inimitabile because it is equipped of a rhythm that no other can resist like she. Given to the young age and her innocent sexiness, I must convene that her music is a invention. ”
From this moment in then, Shakira turned her attention towards the English-speaking market: she improved her English thanks to the poemi of Walt Whitman, and began to write and to sing in the Anglo-Saxon language. The first album in english is Laundry Service. Characterized from pieces rock and melodici, it was launch before in the United States and then in the rest of the world. The album were not a simple translation in English of pieces precedence, but real an unknown one, fruit of along period, dense of writing job, during which Shakira was found in Uruguay, supported from a mobile study. Laundry Service contained mainly pieces in Anglo-Saxon language, even if there were inside four pieces in Spanish language between which the popular “Que me quedes you”. It came entire released moreover a CD in the language mother of Shakira, called Servicio de Laundry (Service of Laundry, that it is also the translation originates of it them in English), in which the piece that was placed better, after “Whenever, Wherever”, was “You Dejo Madrid” (leaves Madrid You), accompanied from the relative one videoclip. They had succeeded also Underneath your clothes, Tango, and The One (that place in Italy arrived to the third party).
Happening was be a matter of remarkable a record one: in the single United States 3 million copies, and 15 million to world-wide level were sold, and thus Shakira became between the greater exponents of international contemporary music. The Latin Grammy Award won thus is in 2002 for the best musical video (“Suerte” - Fortune, in English note like “Whenever, wherever” - Always and wherever), than in 2003 for the best song rock (“You aviso, you anuncio (Tango)” - You warning, you announcement (Tango)). Other prestigious the 4 acknowledgments were MTV Video Music Awards for the video of “Whenever Wherever”.
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