Anonymous ID: 7934f6 Jan. 5, 2022, 6:53 p.m. No.15317137   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7166

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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born on 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is the only child of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado. She is of Colombian and Lebanese descent.[16][17] Her father William was born in New York City to a family from Lebanon. When he was five, his family moved to Colombia.[18][19][20][21] Her Colombian mother side has two Spanish surnames, Ripoll and Torrado, the former of which is Catalan and originates from four brothers who immigrated from Catalonia to coastal Colombia in the 19th century.[22][23][24] She has also claimed to have distant Italian roots through an ancestor with the surname "Pisciotti".[25] The name Shakira (Arabic: ) is Arabic for "grateful", the feminine form of the name Shakir (Arabic: ). She was raised Catholic and attended Catholic schools.[26] She has eight older half-siblings from her father's previous marriage.[27] Shakira spent much of her youth in Barranquilla, a city located on the northern Caribbean coast of Colombia. Shakira's business acumen is often attributed to a high IQ, which is reported in the entertainment press to be 140