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...showtime. Shakira, 24, breezes into the studio with her mother Nidia, a petite woman who doesn't say very much, and her older brother Tony, 35, a solidly constructed guy who looks like he doesn't need to say very much. An MTV crew is waiting nearby to do an interview. A couple of years ago, Shakira did an MTV Unplugged show that MTV passed on but that aired on MTV Latin America. Now, with her new CD getting revved up, the network plans to air the show on its spin-off channel MTV2, along with some spliced-in interviews...
...world ruled by packaged pop, Shakira offers up a refreshing blast of off-center rock. Her music has a bit of edge, a healthy helping of guitars, and she writes it herself. "In Latin cultures historically, though not always, females are interpreters," says Jose Tillan, vice president of music and talent at MTV Latin America. "For the most part, they don't make records. Shakira isn't like that. From the very beginning she has been involved with the songs and the recording...
...balance of Shakira's album is forceful, well-conceived pop rock, with occasional worldly flair (such as the engaging Andean flutes on the song Whenever, Wherever). "I knew I could write songs in English," says Shakira. "I just had to get over the fear." In general, she says she finds English to be less accommodating than Espanol. "Spanish syntax is more flexible--I can put a verb before a noun any time I need to. English is more rigid," she says. There is an aspect of her new songwriting language that she finds useful: "The great thing about composing...
...Derek Walcott once wrote, "To change your language you must change your life." Translations can change poems (the Aeneid, for example, has an elegant architecture that's hard to rebuild in English), and translations can ruin movies (who wants to see the dubbed version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?). Shakira is struggling to prove that a person's career can be translated, from one tongue to another, from one country to the next, without changing its essence. After stops in Uruguay, Argentina and the Bahamas, she now resides in Miami, at least for the time being. "I don't know...
...true Marilyn fashion, Shakira has become a subject of fascination for Miami-area gossip columns, especially since her recent engagement to Antonio de la Rua, the son of the President of Argentina. Shakira has also become a subject of corporate interest: she's appearing in TV spots for Pepsi. Now that she is blond, represents an American soft drink and has an upper-crust Argentine fiance, will she be able to remain the same hard-driving Colombian rockera? "I plan to keep on being the same artist, with the same musical language, just in a different spoken language this time...