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With a bolder - and blonder - look, Shakira introduced herself to the English-language U.S. The musical landscape she offered with 2001’s Laundry Service (released as Servicio de lavandería in 2002) was much more global in scope than the guitar-strung ballads and rock anthems that had first catapulted her to fame.
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If Shaki’s early hits suggested she was a soft rocker chick often favorably compared to Alanis Morissette, her first English-language effort incorporated a sound she’d already been toying with in songs like “Ojos Así,” where she’d tapped into her Lebanese roots for that song’s percussion-heavy beat. With a GRAMMY under her belt (for MTV Unplugged) and a new working relationship with Emilio Estefan, who produced that live album, the Colombian singer set her eyes on that rarest of feats: crossover into the English language market in the U.S. The MTV Unplugged concert and album that followed two years later further solidified her as one of the most successful female Latin American artists of her generation. The album, which includes such hits as “Ciega sordomuda,” “No Creo” and “Inevitable” remains her highest-selling Spanish language effort to date: it has sold over 7 million copies around the world. Starting almost from scratch, the self-proclaimed perfectionist delivered ❽ónde están los Ladrones? (literally, “Where are the thieves?”) in the fall of 1998 to ecstatic reviews. But, in a twist of fate that would go on to birth the title of her next album, Shakira’s work on a new batch of songs hit a snag when her luggage, along with her compositions, was stolen in Bogotá.
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The rock-infused album went platinum in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and even in the U.S., where "Estoy Aqui" became her first single to top Billboard's Latin Pop Songs (aka Latin Pop Airplay) chart, a feat the singer has since accomplished on that chart 18 more times with songs like "Suerte," "Loca" and "Gitana."Įxpectations for Shakira’s follow-up album were sky high. That single, which went on to be part of her wildly successful third album, Pies Descalzos, made her a household name - not just in Colombia, but all over Latin America. It wouldn’t be until she released “❽ónde estás corazón?” as part of the Nuestro rock compilation album, that her career would begin taking off in Colombia.