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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on a wednesday, february 2,1977, in the Clinica Asuncion de Barranquilla (Colombia ).
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Daughter of a respected jeweler of lebanese descent, Don William Mebarak Chadid, and his Colombian wife, Nidia Ripoll Torrado, The child was the couple's blessing and their only daughter
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When Shakira was a child, Nidia discovered that Shakira had a gift for writing. According to Colombian Columnists, Shakira knew the Alphabet by the age of eighteen months, at three she knew how to read, and by the time she was four, she was ready for school
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Shakira never me t his oldest half brother because he died in a car accident before she was born . Her oldest sister Lucy is a surgeon, Alberto is a lawyer, Moises the third child,, Tonino is the fourth and the closest to Shakira, he worked many years as her manager, then is Patricia who lives in Spain , she is a special education teacher, and finally Antonio and Edwars who lives in Miami.
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She studied at LA ENSEÑANZA school in Barranquilla; a traditional school founded and administered by nuns from the order of Mary, It was not just where Shakira learnt her arithmetic and her geography, but also where she began to learn the catholic faith,
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When she was 4, she began to belly dance . What is curious is that no one taught her. "It's proof that a collective, genetic memory really exist”
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In school shakira was sensible and disciplined, but also absentminded. In class she just did not pay attention. she immersed herself in writting lyrics on the back of her notebooks
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She used to drink pepsi with a pastry with dulce de leche and she would get mad if you would ask her for some.