3:41 pm By Maegan La Mala · Music · 3 Comments
9 Feb 2011As I deal with moving servers and other administrative issues, I am happy to report that Shakira’s latest song/video release is in Spanish where we see a little of the Shaki that, at least I fell in love with, the Shaki who sings Spanish language power rock baladas about longing, amor ,and new starts.
Thank goddess it’s not that She-Wolf loba howling cosa. Now if only she would go back to her natural hair color
Here’s the video for Sale el Sol:
5:08 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Celebrities|Immigration|Music|Obama|Politics · 21 Comments
24 Feb 2010
Shakira has already taught us that English only is not a good thing (especially when it comes to her music) and now she’s expanding her political scope by coming out in favor of immigration “reform”.
From America’s Voice :
Colombian pop superstar Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) is the latest public figure to call on President Obama to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
She was even named “immigrant of the day”, although I’m not sure what that means.
What I do know is this, star power often is paid more attention to in the mainstream media and sometimes even in our own communities. Maybe having a celeb spokesperson for immigration “reform” would help bring more people out. Maybe Shakira should do a concert for immigrants in conjunction with the big march scheduled for March.
I just hope she doesn’t sing in English or howl like a wolf.
3:59 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Celebrities|Colombia|Latin America|Politics|society · Comments Off
31 Mar 2009
‘Cause he’s cool like that:
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton donated two million dollars to the school that was built by Shakira’s Pies Descalzos foundation.Clinton visited the school in Barranquilla on the side of his performance at the IADB summit in Medellín.
The money will be spent on the nutrition of the mostly poor children that attend the school and for a course in how to generate income for the children’s parents.
Clinton received a warm welcome at the IADB Summit, where he urged Latin American bankers to “engage the left”, meaning the people of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, whom he called “Colombia’s neighbors”.
Via / Colombia Reports
3:39 pm By la Macha · Celebrities|children|Colombia|Health · 2 Comments
6 Mar 2009Oprah needs to wake up and pay attention to our lovely Shakira. While Oprah is busy funding her single well-meaning, but ultimately highly problematic school for girls, Shakira is taking on poverty by empowering communities through education. And I think Shakira is doing a much better job of it:
To travel with multi-million-selling pop star Shakira is to travel behind tinted windows, on private planes and on Shakira time – always at least an hour behind schedule and always stopping for autographs and photos. It involves long waits while she has hair and make-up touch-ups before emerging from cars, planes and buildings.
But at the centre of the superstar entourage is a young Colombian who is disarmingly friendly and passionately eloquent about education.
And education was the reason we travelled with Shakira to the north-west border province of Choco, deep in the Colombian jungle. It is remote and poor.
Why is Shakira seemingly easily doing what Oprah is struggling to achieve? They both have highly ambitious noble goals–but Shakira is setting her work within communities. That is, she is empowering entire communities *including girls and women* to better fight their way out of poverty (a near impossible feat especially when a government seems absolutely adamant in doing nothing to help).
Oprah, on the other hand, removed girls from their communities–which is always going to cause problems. Girls are going to miss their families, families are going to miss their girls–and that doesn’t even get into the issue of sexism and misogyny that might influence a parent to come take his/her child back home, get angry at Oprah, or even cause moments of danger within Oprah’s school itself.
When girls (and women) have the resources, knowledge and support to stand up for themselves at home, they generally will. And if they don’t, at least they have the resources, knowledge and support to keep themselves safe in bad situations. When they are stuck in some strange building with some strange girls being led around by some strange woman with a camera–where does the empowerment come from? How brave are grown ups when it comes to standing up for themselves when they have to do it alone, by themselves, and in a strange place?
(on a side note, Shakira is so beautiful without all her makeup!!!)
10:19 am By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Colombia|Latin America · Comments Off
4 Feb 2009
Shakira, la Colombian singing sensation and humanitarian, just added another another gold star to her already spotless reputation for being a great role model. In her hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, Shaki has opened up a school which will take in 1,500 underpriveleged children, an initiative of her charitable organization, Fundación Pies Descalzos:
In an interview with Caracol Televisión, Shakira explained that ever since adolescence she wanted to find a way to help children who, in spite of a lack of economic resources, want to study. “I’ve been coming here to the La Playa neighborhood since I was 15. I came with the nuns and my classmates to teach children to read,” said the artist.
Shakira called the opening of the school — built with her own funds and donations from various U.S. and European businesses — “a dream come true”.
Via / El País
9:56 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities|Obama inauguration · Comments Off
19 Jan 2009So VivirLatino couldn’t attend (as in couldn’t afford) The Latino Inaugural Gala. Pero just in case you were wondering what the famosos who attended are thinking about the soon to be President Obama (that feels nice to write), here you go.
See Shakira after the jump.
8:15 pm By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Egypt|Music|Women · 1 Comment
24 Nov 2008
Seems like Shakira’s hips my not lie pero they still have given her quite a reputation, at least in the eyes of one Egyptian religious leader who said that she is quite the lady of the noche.
An Egyptian cleric assured that (Shakira) “could be a lovely person. Yet beauty is something relative that cannot be found in the butt or legs of a woman, but in her moral values”…
Khaled Al-Gindi said: “it’s like being a prostitute. In this country we respect moral values ahead of the values of a superficial appearance.”
Pero what if you’re hot and have good real moral values? Certainly Shakira has done her fair share of community work with her Pies Descalzos foundation and ALAS.
Via / The Latin Americanist
6:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Music · Comments Off
3 Sep 2008
Turns out that the rumors that Shakira would be singing a song about Islam with Arab singer, Dania Youssef are ‘total fabrications in every respect,’ according to Shakira’s publicist.
I wasn’t really that interested in the rumors that she would be singing a song about Islam–but now I’m interested in knowing why she’s not. And why it’s necessary to make sure we all know that all rumors about said topic are total fabrications in every respect. Is the Latina siren anxious about possibly inspiring a Dunkin’ Donuts, Michelle Malkin led boycott?
via/UPI.com
9:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Colombia|history · Comments Off
21 Jul 2008Ok so no one saw the two actually drinking Colombiana with beer. I was drinking refajo as the President of Colombia and Shakira celebrated Colombian independence and called for an end to the cycle of violence in their country.
Shakira and Uribe are joined by Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Peruvian President Alan Garcia. Eleven of the hostages that were rescued together with Ingrid Betancourt were also present in Leticia.The Colombian pop idol called on guerrillas, who still are involved in a war against the government to demobilize and work with the government towards peace.
Later she performed together with fellow Colombian singer Carlos Vives. Hundreds of thousands of people were visiting the border concert.
Via / Colombia Reports
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