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Birth Name:
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Birth Place:
Barranquilla Colombia
Date of Birth:
February 2, 1977
Ethnicity:
Catalan Spanish, Italian, Macedonian, Lebanese
The Colombian singer’s real name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll and she was born in Barranquilla Colombia.
She was born to a mother of Spanish (Catalan) and Italian ancestry named Nidya del Carmen Ripoll Torrado. Her father, William Mebarak Chadid is of Lebanese and Macedonian ethnicity.
Her name Shakira means “thankful” in Arabic. She uses Turkish-Arabic belly dancing in a lot of her performances.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4406486.stm
- http://www.lycos.com/info/shakira.html
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fshzEmNXBM8
- http://dnevnik.hr/
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she is too white to be hispanic or arabian alone
her eyes look arabic
her skin italian, mediterranian european
and she might even have some macedonian blood
there are people in romania or yugoslawia who look like her
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There are many people who are Hispanic and Arab that have white features. Don’t assume what her ethnicity is by just looking at her, that is a form of ignorance. Tho I do not fully disagree with you her skin color is common around Mediterranean countries but also in Latin Countries as well
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She’s look Arab
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I always thought she had a bit of Arabic in her, she looks very Lebanese. She is gorgeous!
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Actually she’s not Macedonian. She even said herself in an interview on Macedonian tv that she wasn’t
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Um, Lady Gaga is Italian, and I would not call her a “true beauty” and there are plenty of light skinned Spaniards and Italians…
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Shakira dancing is on point and thats all that matters at the end of the day.
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