The Grammy-winning singer Shakira is one of those stars who are using their celebrity status in a positive and noble way by drawing attention to the real problems of the world. The pop sensation has recently hold a press conference on Capitol Hill to ask The United States Congress to appropriate billions of dollars for the Global Campaign for Education. Continue reading →
Shakira has teamed up Puig Cosmetics to create a new line of fragrances and beauty products inspired by the singer. The worldwide signature line will include fragrances and other personal care products. Puig currently works with other celebrities including Antonio Banderas, Carolina Herrera, Paco Rabanne and Nina Ricci.
The collaboration with Puig Beauty & Fashion Group will include the development of beauty, fragrances and other personal care products. Shakira will develop, with a dedicated team, the creation of the product line from inception to completion. Puig Beauty & Fashion Group is a multinational fragrance, cosmetic and fashion company with a presence in more than 150 countries.
I’m very excited to be able to express myself through another creative medium. My feeling is that personal care and beauty should be effortless and accessible for everyone.
- Shakira said in a statement -
According to reports, pop Celebrity Shakira is auctioning off items of clothing from her 2007 Oral Fixation tour for charity. Shakira is determined to sell more than forty stage costumes to raise funds for her Bare Feet Foundation, which is leading a project to build a school for kids in her native Colombia. eBay Giving Works website features Shakira clothes “a lavender skirt with turquoise and coral beading, a low cut red dress, and a blue tank top baring the slogan, ‘For Those Who Love to Rock’.” So hurry up as Shakira’s auction will close on Sunday, February 10th.
The Celebrity singer Shakira reportedly turned down a starring role in the movie “Love in the Time of Cholera” because it would’ve required some on-screen nudity. The pop sensation has been nominated for a Golden Globe for her soundtrack for the Mike Newell film - and she reveals Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who wrote the original book, wanted her to act in it as well. Unlike other celebrities, the 30-year-old pop singer was scared a nude scene would anger her parents but she is obviously not the type of girl to take off her cloths on screen.
There was nudity involved, so I said no. My parents wouldn’t like it at all. So I said thank you, but no thank you.
- Shakira told press -
More pictures of Shakira performing and appearing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno - January 7. Click To Enlarge.
 
 
Grammy Award winner and the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF ambassador visits Bangladesh to see community projects and areas hit by last month’s devastating Cyclone Sidr. Shakira arrived there on Monday and she appealed to the world community to help rebuild schools in cyclone-devastated Bangladesh on Wednesday, in the same day she left under tight security. Shakira who was appointed a global goodwill ambassador for UNICEF in 2003, also visited UNICEF-sponsored education programs for children in northern Rajshahi city on Tuesday.
The world should give a helping hand to rebuild schools in Bangladesh. I rushed to Bangladesh when I came to know that some 3,000 schools were damaged in the cyclone. I will never forget the faces of mothers who lost their children and the children who lost their parents.
- twice Grammy Award-winner Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll told Reuters in an interview -
More pictures of Shakira in Dhaka - December 19. Click To Enlarge.
