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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Just as all children are born with the potential to learn to speak and understand their native language, all children are born with the potential to learn, to perform and to understand their culture's music.
Shakira means ‘woman of grace’ in Arabic. She gives credits to her father's Lebanese heritage for her Middle Eastern-influenced dance moves. "I think it is something in my DNA. I have been belly-dancing since I was four."
The beautiful singer had had her share of tragedies also. Her half brother was killed when a drunk driver hits the motorcycle he was riding. Just two at the time, the singer says that her first memory is learning of his death. "It made me very necrophobic". For a long time I feared death in all its aspects.
Unlike others, she wrote or co-wrote nearly all of her own songs and in the process gained a reputation of a poetic lyricist. When she released her first English lyric in late 2001, she became an instant pop sensation.
She was born on February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia, into a poor family. Her mother was a native Colombian and her father was of Lebanese descent. Shakira imbibed up music from both cultures. She also listened and learned studiously English-language rock and roll. She had written her first song at age eight and learned guitar at the age of 11. In 1990, at the age of 13, she moved to Bogotá to pursue the modeling career, but ended at singing with Sony's Colombian division. Her 1991 debut album, Magia (Magic), was comprised of songs she'd written over the past five or six years, including some of her earliest efforts. The magic of her voice kept the world spell bound.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Kate Beckinsale is an English actress. Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in Finsbury Park, London to actor Richard Beckinsale and actress Judy Loe. She has a paternal half-sister, Samantha, who is also an actress.
In 1990s, she worked on both television and films. In 2001, kate Beckinsale garnered international recognition when she was cast as the romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck in her breakthrough film, Pearl Harbor. Since then, she has acted in differet films like Underworld, The Aviator, Van Helsing. Beckinsale and her former partner Michael Sheen have a daughter, Lily Mo Sheen who was born on 31 January 1999. During the Underworld shoot, Beckinsale split from Sheen, who was also starring in the film. She became involved with the director of the film, Len Wiseman and in June 2003, they were engaged and the two were married on 9 May 2004 in Bel-Air, California.
Birth Name : Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale
Professional Name : Kate Beckinsale
Birth Date : 26 July 1973
Birth Place : London, England, UK
Profession : Actress
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