Shakira’s contributions celebrated

Shakira is to receive a special honor at this year’s ALMA Awards it has been confirmed. The Colombian will be presented with an award to celebrate her many contributions to the entertainment world and American cultures next month.

The ALMA Awards 2008 will be hosted at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on August 17th, and will be broadcast on 12th September by ABC from 8pm EST.

Shakira nominated for Ivor Novello gong

Shakira is among the nominees for an award at this year’s Ivor Novello songwriting awards.

The curvy Colombian has been nominated in the category of “Best Selling Song” for her “Beautiful Liar” collaboration with R&B star Beyonce.

Amy Winehouse leads the way with three nominations - one of which is in the same category as Shaki & Beyonce for her song “Rehab”. The troubled singer also has two tracks nominated in the “Best Song” category - “Love Is A Losing Game” and “You Know I’m No Good”.

Radiohead are in contention for the “Best Album” award with their release “In Rainbows”.

The full list of nominees are as follows:

Best Song Musically & Lyrically

Ben’s Brother / Let Me Out
Amy Winehouse / Love Is A Losing Game
Amy Winehouse / You Know I’m No Good

Best Contemporary Song

No awards for Shakira in Bogota this year

The Premio Nuestra Tierra awards ceremony took place in Bogota on Sunday.

As I previously blogged, Shakira was up for two awards at the show that celebrates the best of Colombian artistic talent. Unfortunately, she walked away with neither of the “Best Web Site” and “Best Video of a Colombian” awards for which she was nominated.

Shakira did not attend the show but recorded a video message for Colombian musician Joe Arroyo.

Shakira receives two Premio Nuestra Terra nominations

Shakira has been nominated for two awards at this year’s “Premio Nuestra Terra” awards ceremony in Bogota.

The event gives prizes to the best-achieving Colombian artists every year.

Shaki has been nominated in the category for best website and best video for her performance in “Las de la Intuición”.

The prizes will be handed out on April 13th. To cast your votes for Shakira, click here!

Shakira nominated for a Golden Globe

Shakira has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category of Best Original Song for a motion picture.

The song “Despedida” was written  by Shakira herself and is featured in the movie “Love In The Time of Cholera” with musical arrangements by Antonio Pinto.

The other nominations in the category are:

Grace Is Gone (Grace Is Gone) -  Clint Eastwood/Carole Bayer Sager
Guaranteed (Into The Wild) - EddieVedder
That’s How You Know (Enchanted) - Alan Menken/Stephen Schwartz
Walk Hard (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) - Judd Apatow, Kasdan, John C. Reilly and Marshall Grenshaw.

Shakira receives Grammy nomination

Shakira’s duet performance with Beyonce in Beautiful Liar has led to a Grammy Award nomination at next year’s extraganza.

The pair will be up for the Best Pop Collaboration when the show airs live on CBS at 10pm, February 10th, 2007.

Shakira is already a two-time Grammy Award winner, and a four-time nominee. Sheis also a seven-time winner at the Latin Grammy’s.

Good luck Shaki!