Mexican president gets down at Shakira gig

Colombian pop star Shakira rocked Mexico City and even President Felipe Calderon on the final stop of her “Oral Fixation” world tour.

Calderon attended the Sunday concert with his wife and his 10-year-old daughter.

The bespectacled leader, dressed in a blue sport coat and gray slacks, spoke briefly to the rock diva — known for her sexy, belly dancing moves — minutes before she sang to 50,000 fans. There were no reports of what the Calderon said to her.

“Thanks for giving me this opportunity to return to this country, which I feel like is my own,” Shakira was quoted as saying in Monday’s Reforma newspaper, which featured a picture of her and Calderon sitting together on its front page.

Shakira sizzles in Egypt

Egypt is the home planet of belly dancing, so when Shakira, the Colombian-born pop star with the centrifugal hips, came to Cairo on March 28 to give a concert, there was some anticipation she might do a, hmmmm, belly flop.

On the contrary, she conquered the audience and experts for whom belly dancing is as commonplace as dust in Cairo.

“She knows how to shake,” said Rakia Hassan, a dance teacher and former member of an Egyptian troupe that toured the world. “I was skeptical, but she does something truly good for this art. A lot of people around the world have signed up for belly dancing because of her.”

Belly dancing isn’t exactly what Shakira does. She augments the typical alternate slow grinding motions and fast shimmying with dashes across the stage in bare feet, tosses of her ample curly hair in all directions and impressive performances of jackknife hip thrusts.

Shakira Rocks the Pyramids of Giza

It was a new Goddess that moved the pyramids of Giza in Cairo two days ago … Shakira sang, danced & mesmerized over 100.000 people at her concert on Wednesday.

She didn’t only sing her songs, but she also surprised the audiences with an Arabic song, she chose to start her concert with Fairuz’s song ‘Atini Annay wa Ghanni’ & she also belly danced to the song of the fabulous Um Kulthum ‘Inta Omri’.

Shakira rocked the Pyramids with her famous songs La Tortura, Illegal, Estoy Aqui & Hips don’t Lie among others.

On the day of the concert, Shakira got a special guided tour of the Pyramids with Dr. Zahi Hawwas. She was astonished & overwhelmed.
This was Shakira’s 101 concert after which she flew directly to India to start preparing for her 102 concert of the tour.

Shakira takes Mumbai by storm

Latino superstar Shakira took the country’s entertainment capital by storm with her live performance.

The concert, held at the MMRDA grounds in Mumbai Sunday evening, was to start at around 1830 hrs but started well after 2000 hrs, making the audience impatient.

However, she made up for the delay by belting out some English chartbusters like ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, ‘Whenever Wherever’ and ’Illegal’. Before that, she had the audience swaying by singing to a host of Latino numbers.

Some of the celebrities present at the concert were musician Leslie Lewis, rapper Bali Brahmbhatt, former Bollywood actress Kimi Katkar, producer Ritesh Sidhwani and Shah Rukh Khan wife Gauri with their kids.

Speaking on the occasion, Shakira said, “This is my first concert in Mumbai. Thank you for making it so special.’’

Shakira wows Mumbai

It was the night that Mumbaikas were waiting for — and Shakira did not disappoint! The Latino songstress left the audience gasping for more with what was quite a ‘hip’notising experience.

The high-energy, saucy Shakira gyrating to some sexy tunes on Sunday night was more than enough to drive a crowd into a frenzy of adrenalin and excitement. The Latin diva’s sensational moves on left the crowds begging for more.

It was the Latina diva’s first concert in India and did not disappoint. The Mumbai concert was a part of Shakira’s ‘Oral Fixation’ world tour, with performances in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. After entertaining the Mumbai crowds, the multiple Grammy Award winner flies to Egypt and then to Spain.

Mumbai sways to Shakira’s dance moves

Colombian pop star Shakira Sunday left thousands of fans in this megapolis spellbound by her amazing intensity and boundless energy as she performed her maiden concert in India.

The three-hour concert all but left the fans hypnotised with the belly dancing moves of the Latino singing sensation at the MMRDA grounds in the Bandra-Kurla Complex in suburban Mumbai.

The Mumbai stopover is part of Shakira’s ‘Oral Fixation’ tour.

The concert, which was a huge sell-out, had several ‘firsts’ for music concerts in India with a giant LED (liquid electronic displays) wall installed instead of the ordinary LCD (liquid crystal display) wall and superior lighting effects.

In another first in India, Shakira was carried by an Austin crane into the audience, there were ramps that came into the arena so that even crowds farthest from the stage got a close-up glimpse of her.

Shakira turns up the heat on stage in Dubai

Lebanese-Colombian pop sensation, Shakira, set the stage on fire with a string of high-energy performances last evening as she performed for over two hours in front of a ‘live’ audience of 25,000 fans at the Dubai Autodrome as part of her ‘Oral Fixation’ world tour.

The diva made sure that her fans got to see enough of her as she swayed her hips and belted out some of her top English and Spanish hits.
Shakira began her performance by playing her guitar and singing one of her Spanish hits. She performed a mix of slow songs like Illegal and even some racy Spanish numbers, but the crowd went wild when she belly danced in true Shakira style, letting her hips do all the talking!

Addressing the crowd, the two-time Grammy Award and eight-time Latin Grammy Award-winning singer, said, “For me, this is a very satisfying tour because this gives me an opportunity to get in touch with my Arabic roots of which I am really proud.”

Shakira Sends Peruvian Fans Wild

Shakira fans worth their salt know her hips don’t lie and so it proved as she sent concert goers into a frenzy with her frenetic belly dancing at a gig in Lima.

The Colombian is in Peru for the last leg of her Oral Fixation tour, and loyal fans hung around outside her hotel in the capital to scream, dance and try and catch a glimpse of the star.

Up to 24,000 Peruvians were loving her work and her new dark hair.

She saved the best until last, playing the massive summer hit Hips Don’t Lie during her encore which saw the crowds descend into hip shaking bedlam.

The singer is off to Ecuador next week before heading to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

She is planning to come over to Europe for a series of tour dates next year.

Shakira receives six Latin Grammy nominations

Shakira leads the nominations for the Latin Grammy awards after receiving six nomination on Tuesday including for record of the year and album of the year.

The Latin Recording Academy announced the nominations in New York. The seventh annual awards will be presented on Nov. 2.

Shakira, known for combining various Latin and Middle Eastern rhythms, also was nominated for best female pop vocal album for “Fijacion Oral Vol. 1,” best engineered album, best short video, and song of the year, an award for songwriting, for “La Tortura.”

Valley gets its fix of Shakira

With thousands of adoring fans shouting, Latin superstar Shakira greeted her followers with a fierce taste of “Estoy Aqui” sending Dodge Arena into a frenzy Monday night.

Thus began a glorious night of belly-shaking, hip-thrusting and hand-waving with the enthusiastic songstress.

Following her introduction, she quickly gained momentum with “Don’t Bother”, while playing a sparkle-encrusted Fender American Stratocaster guitar.

Fans, smiling from ear to ear, wanted more.

Shakira, sporting a sparkly silver bolera vest with black cargo pants, circled the stage in her trademark bare feet under a florescent lighting scheme welcoming the crowd to her show.

“Good evening Hidalgo,” she said.

It was her first of two, back-to-back shows in the Rio Grande Valley — a much anticipated visit
for men and women,
boys and girls who have followed her since the days of her debut on Siempre en Domingo with Raul Velasco 10 years ago.

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