N°99 SHAKIRA feat. EL CATA - LOCA

First of all something new in this blog. Apart from the youtube video I’ll be posting a picture of the performing artist(s) from now on because it draws a bit more attention when posting on eg. Facebook or other social sites. I’ll also enclose pictures in all the previous posts but that’ll happen along the way so don’t complain there’s no picture yet in let’s say link number 55. Allright, lmet’s get down to buisiness.

Both The Tin Things and Shakira are working for Columbia Records and I wanted Shakira in before the first 100. No particular reason for that but I’d think it wuld be cool to have an extra poppy song before we enter the next hundred songs.

The song I chose she sings together with the Dominican rapper El Cata. El Cata usually sings in Spanish and that’s why the cooperation with Columbian superstar Shakira was a perfect match. He didn’t grow up in his home country though since he was five when his parents migrated to the USA and he stayed untill his mid twenties. His first studio album got released only recently in 2009 and at the same time he co-wrote the latest album of Pitbull, another colleague rapper. Shakira covered his song Loca in 2010 and so the two met and he decided to participate on that song as well doing the rap lyrics on Rabiosa.

Shakira is a Colombian beauty who started her singing career at a very young age in the early nineties singing rocksong with latin and arabic influences. Since she’s quite good at languages she tried not only to sing in Spanish but also in English, and Portuguese. Apparantly she also manages some Arabic, French and Italian. You can’t say she’s all beauty and no brains.

At first she wasn’t well known outside her home country but halfway the nineties her album Dondé Estàn Los Ladrones got well received in most Spanish speaking countries around the world. She actually broke through worldwide in 2001 with the single Whenever, Wherever where all the fans could enjoy her bellydancing and bootyshaking. More albums followed, more hitsingles too. ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, ‘She Wolf’, ‘Underneath Your Clothes’ and ‘Waka Waka’ which was the opening and closing song for the FIFA World Cup Football in South-Africa in 2010.

Apart from singing she gets noticed all the time for her charity work. Amongst them she founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation which support schools for poor children in Colombia. She also headlined the Clinto Global Initiative and many more. Since last year she gets noticed in Catalunya from time to time since she pairs up with Gérard Pique an center defender from footbaal team Barcelona CF. It is said that since dating Shakira, Pique hardly makes the the first team anymore since he’s spending too much time having fun instead of training. On the other hand, Barcelona CF is one of the best football teams in the world so you have tob e extraodinary to maintain a solid spot in the defense. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.