Colombian rocker Shakira enjoys her many selves

“Shakira is the most successful musician of Lebanese descent on the planet. The Colombian-born singer is also Latin pop’s defining crossover artist; call her the most charismatic rock star of the new century and you wouldn’t be wrong either. Nobody has more of a right to claim the overused honorific “polyglot” than this 29-year-old child of a half-Italian mother and an Arabic father; wowing the predominantly Latino crowd at Staples Center on Tuesday, she showed that she’s absorbed every lesson Robert Plant, Madonna and Selena had to offer and still managed to completely distinguish herself.”

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