They are the biggest part of my day-to-day life, and without them it would have been a very different body of work.” Gerard would visit when he could, and Milan came to the studio quite often. They were also present for a good part of it. My family was a big inspiration on this record. “And now with Milan I’m experiencing a whole new dimension of it.
“I think that has always been and probably always will be my greatest source of inspiration,” she says. Not surprisingly, her lyrical muse is love. Since that album’s release, the star found love with Spanish soccer star Gerard Piqué, and gave birth to their son, Milan. Her first English-language album since 2009’s She Wolf, Shakira finds its creator in a transitional stage, both personally and professionally. “It’s more eclectic and a pretty faithful representation of all the different facets of myself as an artist and a woman - so I thought simplicity regarding the title was best in this case.” “This album is not really thematic or conceptual as some of my albums have been in the past,” she says of the decision to self-title it. In March, Shakira releases her tenth album, entitled Shakira. A daring yet savvy performer, Shakira draws listeners in with her exotic beauty and seductive dance moves, then keeps them spellbound with her intelligent, poetic lyrics and mélange of diverse, spirited sounds that encompass everything from rock to folk to pop to electronic to world music genres, thanks to inspirations that range from Leonard Cohen to AC/DC and Mercedes Sosa to Skrillex. She’s insisted on and earned an impressive amount of creative control over her music, writing or co-writing and co-producing nearly all of her own material. The Columbian-born singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, and social activist has sold 70 million albums and achieved worldwide superstardom by never playing it safe. Shakira has made a career out of being tough to pin down.
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