Shakira in concert at Madison Square Garden - Backstage

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born February 2, 1977), known simply as Shakira, is a two-time Grammy Award and eight-time Latin Grammy Award-winning Colombian singer-songwriter, musician and record producer who has been a major figure in the pop muziek of Latin America since the mid- 1990s.

Hot on the heels of her captivating World Cup performance, Shakira, one of the most exciting and successful global artists in recent history, with meer than 214 global award nominations and meer than 50 million albums sold worldwide, has announced her 2010 global tour and her highly anticipated return to Europe....