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Shakira
Shakira

Born

February 2, 1977 (age 37)
Barranquilla, Colombia

Known for

Singer (FIFA World Cup, mostly Spanish)

Shakira (born February 2, 1977) is a Colombian singer and occasional actress. Her singing career started in 1990, when she was only in elementary school. Born in a big city in Colombia, even though not Bogota, she lived in the Spanish-speaking country for all of her life. She was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, on the northern part of Colombia. On April 19, 2013, she went to film Ben and Toad's Contest for season 3. Her professional partner will be Maksim Chmerkovskiy; in the all-star season 5 will be Tristan MacManus.

She sings lots of Spanish songs. Some of the songs she sings are in English. Mostly she uses Spanish words because her country Colombia speaks Spanish. Although Colombia does not have English, she uses English words sometime (normally during the FIFA World Cup.

She is currently a judge for The Voice, in some of the show's seasons. She and Usher joined the show as judges for season 5, replacing Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green.

Trivia

  • She was born five days after DWTS contestant Joey Fatone.
  • She hates Ella Schuler, Gladys Knight and Beatrice Cooper.
  • She was born almost 80 years younger than Colombian man Daniel Guzman-Garcia.
  • Shakira was mad with the judges on the highlights of week 9 of Ben and Toad's Contest on the list of country subdivisions by having Jiroemon Kimura and Sabrina Bryan but not Colombia.
  • Shakira was announced as a season 5 contestant because Flag of Colombia Colombia made her progress by going to the quarter-finals, defeating Flag of Uruguay Uruguay 2-0 without Luis Suarez.
  • She sings songs for the World Cup (Germany 2006, South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014)
  • Shakira's video "Waka Waka" for South Africa 2010 has over 500 million views, and it was on June 4, 2010, making the video one of the most watched videos in YouTube history.
  • She disliked how the show of Ben and Toad's Contest season 1 started. For season 1, she was in the finale week and she disliked Besse Cooper for the season but she liked Koto Okubo instead.

Quotes

  • "Birdo, Birdo, Birdo!"
  • "This was a night on Ben and Toad's Contest like a bad night for some b*tches."
  • "A night on BATC when there are a lot of shocking fives?"

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