Shakira Net Worth

Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1977, and she has had a storied career that has seen Shakira’s net worth skyrocket to $300 million. She signed her first record deal at the age of 13 and quickly became very popular in her native country. Her first four albums were sung in Spanish, but then she penetrated the English language market in the early 2000s with her first big English album, Laundry Service. This album sold more than 20 million copies internationally and spawned such international hits as Whenever, Wherever, and Underneath Your Clothes. She scored another mega-hit shortly thereafter with the single Hips Don’t Lie.

More business success

In 2010, she came up with a huge hit called Waka Waka for the World Cup, becoming the best-selling World Cup song of all time. In 2012, Shakira signed a mega-deal worth $30 million with Sony and Live Nation, who wanted to co-sponsor her next three albums, sharing their profits. Her reputation had soared by then, and she was asked to be one of the coaches on the television series The Voice. She was paid $12 million for each of the two years she appeared on the show during seasons four and six.

Awards and Honors

Having won numerous awards and honors, Shakira’s career now reads like a long success catalog. She is recognized to be the biggest Colombian singer of all time and the second most popular Latina singer ever, behind only Gloria Estefan. She has won three Grammy Awards as well as 13 Latin Grammy Awards. She has also won four MTV Video Music Awards and created many popular music videos in that genre. She has scored seven different wins at the Billboard Music Awards.

Career recognitions

Add to that her 39 Latin Grammy Awards, and you can see that she has not been short-changed at all in being recognized for her work. She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is the most-streamed Latin artist on Spotify. In 2009, she was declared the Top Female Latin artist of the decade, and she is one of only two female artists who have earned more than two billion views for two separate videos on YouTube. She is revered in Spanish-speaking countries, and the enormous popularity of her Spanish albums makes her an extremely successful Latina singer.

Early Life

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll has a very interesting background, coming from a family where her mother was Catalan and Castilian, and her father came from Lebanese parents. At any rate, Shakira herself was an only child, although she has eight older half-siblings by her father’s previous marriage. She was fascinated at a very early age with how her father would use a typewriter to write stories, so she asked for her own at Christmas time. She was obliged and immediately began writing poetry, penning her very first poem at the age of four, La Rosa de Cristal, and she has continued that practice ever since. Many of those poems eventually evolved into songs that she has incorporated into her best-selling albums.

Shakira sets her life goal

She became adept at belly dancing at a young age after being exposed to it for the first time at a Middle Eastern restaurant with her father. When she began showing off her moves to classmates in school, she became known as the ‘belly dancer girl,’ but more importantly, she realized that she really enjoyed being a performer. From that time on, her goal in life was to become a popular entertainer. During the period when she was 10 to 13, she began singing at local events, and her talent was recognized by Monica Ariza, a local theater producer. Ariza convinced a Sony executive to let Shakira audition for him, and he was impressed enough that he arranged for another audition with three other Sony Colombia executives. The three songs she sang at that audition netted her a three-record deal with Sony Colombia.

Another business coup

After proving her business acumen and talent by making several lucrative business deals that boosted her career and made her very comfortable financially, Shakira pulled off another coup in 2021. In January of that year, she sold the rights to her entire music catalog, Hipgnosis Songs, for a whopping $100 million. That included the full publishing rights to 145 songs that had been hallmarks of her brilliant career, and although the actual terms of the deal were never disclosed, similar deals have fetched at least $100 million.

Shakira’s Personal Life

Shakira was involved in a serious relationship with Argentinian attorney Antonio de la Rua from 2000 to 2011, after which they separated. For a time, de la Rua continued to manage her career and business interests. The relationship then soured, and he sued Shakira for $100 million, claiming that he was owed this money from their business partnership. Eventually, the courts threw the case out, which was the end of her involvement with him. Soon afterward, she began dating Spanish football player Gerard Piqué, who is 10 years her junior.

Shakira met Gerard Piqué in 2010 when she created the official song for the World Cup games, Waka Waka, and Pique appeared in the video for the song. They have two sons together, born in 2013 and 2015, and they are named Milan Piqué Mebarak and Sasha Piqué Mebarak. In June of 2022, Shakira and Gerard Piqué decided to go their separate ways, and the relationship ended there.

Shakira the philanthropist

When Shakira was a little girl, her father used to take her to a local park, so she could observe how children less fortunate were obliged to live. The memory stuck with her through the years, and when she became affluent herself, she decided to do what she could to help those under-privileged Colombian children have a better lot in life. She founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation, and the sole function of this organization is to raise and distribute money to those poor children living in Colombia. For all her current fame and wealth, Shakira has never lost sight of her own humble beginnings nor of those whom she grew up with.

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