Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born: ), better known professionally as simply Shakira, is a Colombian musician, singer, and songwriter, who performs the genres of pop, rock, and latin. Since she began her career in 1990, she's released a total of eleven studio albums, including Magia, (1991), Peligro, (1993), Pies Descalzos, (1995), Dónde Están los Ladrones?, (1998), Laundry Service, (2001), Fijación Oral, Vol. 1, (2005), Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, (2005), She Wolf, (2009), Sale el Sol, (2010), Shakira, (2014), and El Dorado, (2017), five live albums, which included MTV Unplugged, (2000), Live & Off the Record, (2004), Oral Fixation, (2007), Live from Paris, (2011), and Shakira in Concert: El Dorado World Tour, (2019), five compilation albums, which includes The Remixes, (1997), Colección de Oro, (2002), Grandes Éxitos, (2002), Oral Fixation, Vol. 1 & 2, (2006), and She Wolf, (2009).
== Controversy ==
=== Tax Fraud ===
Shakira was implicated in the Paradise Papers in 2017, revealing her ownership of a Malta-based company used to transfer $30 million in music rights.https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/6069/
In 2018, Spanish authorities began investigating her finances,https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/6069/ arguing she did not pay taxes in Spain between 2012 and 2014, while Shakira maintained her primary residence in the Bahamas. In July 2021, a Spanish judge ruled that there was "evidence of criminality" sufficient for Shakira to be brought to trial on charges of tax fraud.https://www.newsweek.com/shakira-tax-evasion-charges-explained-singer-likely-face-trial-1614242
In 2021, the Pandora Papers showed Shakira submitted applications for three offshore companies in 2019, but her representatives claimed the companies had no income or activities and that Spanish authorities had been made aware of their existence.https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/shakira-sachin-julio-celebrities-use-offshore/
In July 2022, after not reaching a deal with the Spanish Prosecution Ministry, Shakira decided to go to trial to prove her innocence.https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/shakira-refuses-settle-with-spanish-prosecutor-end-tax-fraud-case-2022-07-27/ The prosecutor asked for an eight-year prison sentence over six alleged tax fraud crimes.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62349773 A Spanish judge approved the tax fraud trial in September 2022, and Shakira claims she has already paid all she owed plus 3 million euros ($2.8 million) as interest.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/pop-singer-shakira-ordered-stand-trial-tax-fraud-charges-spain-rcna49581 A trial date was set for November 2023https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/could-shakira-really-be-going-to-jail-if-found-guilty-of-12million-tax-fraud/ar-AA1dFZb0 after receiving the necessary qualifying papers from both parties.https://time.com/6218129/shakira-trial-tax-fraud-spain/
== Discography ==
* Magia (1991)
* Peligro (1993)
* Pies Descalzos (1995)
* Dónde Están los Ladrones? (1998)
* Laundry Service (2001)
* Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 (2005)
* Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 (2005)
* She Wolf (2009)
* Sale el Sol (2010)
* Shakira (2014)
* El Dorado (2017)
== Tours ==
* Pies Descalzos International Tour (1996–1997)
* Tour Anfibio (2000)
* Tour of the Mongoose (2002–2003)
* Oral Fixation Tour (2006–2007)
* The Sun Comes Out World Tour (2010–2011)
* El Dorado World Tour (2018)
== Trivia ==
* Shakira's YouTube channel is currently the 18th most subscribed music artist on the platform.
* She voiced the character Gazelle in Disney's animated film Zootopia.
* She is currently facing tax fraud charges and a possibility of eight years in prison.
* She is known as the "Queen of Latin Music".https://web.archive.org/web/20220411180551/https://sportsgrindentertainment.com/shakira-birthday-from-beautiful-liar-to-loca-5-hit-songs-by-the-queen-of-latin-music/
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