Sellout Expected For Shakira’s Dubai Visit

Tickets are to go on sale this Sunday for the hottest show that will hit the Gulf-region this year. Shakira’s Oral Fixation will be brought to an end on March 23, with the sultry superstar ending her massive World Tour at the Dubai Autodrome. Oh, and organizers are expecting the 25,000 tickets up for grabs to sell out in no time.

“The 30 million albums Shakira has sold worldwide and more than seven million copies of her latest album, Oral Fixation, shows how popular she is,” said Mirage Promotions marketing and public relations manager Nasim Tabatabaei.

“The 25,000 hip-shaking fans can expect to hear a selection of her new songs and many of her greatest hits including Whenever Wherever, La Tortura, Underneath Your Clothes, Don’t Bother, Objection, Hips Don’t Lie and many more.”

Shakira’s concert in Dubai is being presented by PlayStation in association with the brand new PlayStation3 and Bravia.

Shakira Saves The Grammys

In what turned out to be a mostly dull and uneventful night in Los Angeles at the Grammy Awards, Shakira stole the show with a memorable performance of her chart-topping hit Hips Don’t Lie with Wyclef Jean.

The pair opened with an Acoustica introduction to the high-tempo dance track, which they pulled off perfectly. They then turned up the beat and Shakira bellydanced around on stage in her own trademarked style awakening many who had snoozed through the first hour of the show. Check out a video of the sizzling performance below:

There were no awards for the Colombian unfortunately. She was beaten in the one category she was nominated for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals by Stevie Wonder and Tony Bennett.

Shakira To Pen Three New Songs

Shakira is to write three new songs for the movie adaption of the classic Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel “Love In The Time Of Cholera”.

Marquez and Shakira are known to be great friends from Colombia, and the hip shakin’ Latin artist is said to be only too happy to be given the opportunity to contribute music to the project. The movie will be adapted by Mike Newell, who was the creator of “Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire” and “Four Weddings and a funeral”, with Shakira agreeing to contribute three songs.

Gabriel José García Márquez, also known as Gabo (born March 6, 1927), is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Norah Jones: Shakira Is A Hottie

You might have expected the seemingly mild-mannered Norah Jones to quickly pass on a question that asked her to tell us: “If your boyfriend were to give you a free pass for a night-anyone, man or woman…”

But the soulful Jazz singer had no trouble revealing her choice would be a woman, and that woman would be Shakira — the sexiest of them all in music.

“Probably Shakira. She’s hot. I like that she’s this pop star, but she’s also kind of unique and weird,” Jones told Blender magazine. “I always sing Shakira when I karaoke.”

Who would have guessed that?

Jones new album “Not Too Late” is currently riding high in the album charts both at home, and internationally too. And while you probably wont get the chance to use Norah’s material to seduce Shakira into sharing a night of passion with you, it certainly does help set the right tone for anyone else you might care to bring back to yours for the evening.

Shakira Unicef Commercial

Here’s a short video currently running in Latin America for Unicef featuring music (the track “No”) and a filmed appearance by Shakira.

The video features children walking around noticing the real problems faced in the world, poverty, hunger, and shows adults wandering by without even noticing it. Shakira appears near the end of the creative and says we have to look at the world with the eyes of the children.

Shakira To Rock Grammys For First Time

For the first time in Grammy history, international sensation and current nominee Shakira will perform, and fellow nominee Wyclef Jean will join her; current nominees Chris Brown, Lionel Richie and Smokey Robinson will take the stage in a special Grammy Moment segment paying tribute to the tradition of great male R&B artists; and nominees Rascal Flatts will perform with previously announced nominee Carrie Underwood in a tribute to country rock on the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, it was announced today by The Recording Academy .

Also, new presenters added to the all-star lineup include current nominee Natasha Bedingfield, current nominee and 12-time Grammy winner Tony Bennett, current nominee comedian Lewis Black, Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage, current Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Ornette Coleman, two-time GRAMMY Award winner LeAnn Rimes, current nominee Nicole Scherzinger (of the Pussycat Dolls), three-time Grammy winner Seal, and actor David Spade. The music industry’s premier event will take place live on Sunday, Feb. 11, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in HDTV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS Television Network .

Those Faithful Hips Win Over Aussies

Shakira has been honoured at the POPrepublic’s annual publicly voted It List in Australia.

Hips Don’t Lie continues to demonstrate its international appeal by winning the award for the best single of 2006 down under. The single topped the charts in the land of Oz, beating off competition from Rihanna and TV Rock.

Evanescence were celebrated as the best International Group, while Christina Aguilera took home the best female accolade.

Seat Commercial Featuring Shakira

Here’s the Seat commercial currently running across Europe featuring the-one-and-only hip-shakin Colombian Shakira.

Seat are the lead-sponsor of the pop princess’ current Oral Fixation European Tour. They are also donating money to Shakira’s Colombian foundation Pies Descalzos.

Shakira Armhem Concert Cancelled

Shakira has been forced to cancel her Oral Fixation Tour date in Arnhem, Netherlands on Saturday night after suffering from a sore throat.

The show was forced to be cancelled about an hour before the start, after the Colombian was forced to follow doctors orders who insisted she not attempt to perform. It was a blow for fans, as well as Shakira, who had felt she would be able to play the show earlier in the day.

The show has now been rescheduled for March 17, a day before she’s due in London to play the Wembley Arena.

Shakira Designs New SEAT Car

Glamorous ‘Hips-Don’t-Lie’ pop star, Shakira, has helped SEAT design a unique Leon Cupra as a competition prize, in order to raise money for her own charity. At a press conference in the Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin at the weekend - officially kicking off her European tour - SEAT and Shakira revealed the special Cupra that will benefit the star’s charity, the Fundación Pies Descalzos (Bare Feet Foundation).

The car, aptly named the Leon Pies Descalzos, is immediately identifiable by its striking lilac metallic paint, a colour also highlighted on several details inside. In addition, the interior features part-leather trim incorporating the Pies Descalzos logo. This emblem also graces the B-pillar, while polished black paint is used on the Cupra’s 18-inch alloy wheels.