She no doubt has camera-friendly looks and a carefully controlled public image that sometimes conceal the fact that she is an international star. While still young, the young Latino princess showed a great love for music and an incredible talent that her parents considered being one of a kind for a girl her age. Shakira wrote her first poem at the age of four and learnt to belly dance as a young girl. The Spanish native soon started winning several talent and beauty contests and she was not even a teenager yet.

Mebarak left her Barranquilla hometown for Bogota to take on a modelling offer. Her career in modelling never took off as fate had other plans. Shortly after, she signed her first recording deal with Sony Music and released her debut album. It was not a record-breaking album but it took her some steps higher on the ladder of national music attention. For a long time after she began her career, Isabel Mebarak Ripoll remained a star in the Spanish-speaking world until she made her grand entrance into the English community with the album Laundry Service.

Date of Birth: February 2, 1977

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Her record label maintains that the female dance-pop goddess is the biggest selling Colombian artist with over 50 million albums in sale. Beyond her status as a multiple-award winning legend, the lovely Mebarak is deeply involved in charity. Her main focus is displaced children who have suffered violence in Columbia and she was once a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. As you read along in the article, you’ll know more about the personal life of the favourite Spanish voice-box stating from her birth family to the products of her enviable love life.

Shakira father

William Mebarak Chadid (father)

Year of Birth: 1931

Chadid is a writer and jeweller whose background had great influence on what his daughter is today. William’s mother taught the young Shakira the captivating art of belly dancing so she could forever stay true to her Middle Eastern roots but little did she know her grand-daughter was practising how to be a star. Her initial interest was rock music but because she is devoted to the Arabic taste and sounds, she came up with music that is a beautiful fusion of her passions put in one.

Chadid is to the Hips Don’t Lie star a cornerstone and best friend. In 2013, the singer called her father her weakness and sees him as the best father life could possibly have given her.

Shakira mother

Nidia del Carmen Ropili Torrado (mother)

Shakira with parents

Nidia is the mother of the exotic looking songstress who loved to draw when she was much younger. She thought her daughter would end up being a painter so she greatly encouraged her in this art but the little Mebarak had several other passions with music and dance being the topmost on the list. Shakira is the only child to Torrado who was a homemaker seeing that her husband William was wealthy enough to take care of their family.

Shakira is the only child to her parents but is also the youngest of 8 half-siblings from William first marriage to woman named Lucila. 

When the pop star was two, her eldest brother (ninth half-sibling) died in a motorcycle crash when he was hit by a drunk car driver. 

Shakira siblings

Robin Mebarak Otero (elder half-brother from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Shakira’s father and brother Robin

Moises Mebarak Otero (elder half-brother from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Shakira’s father and brother Moises

Moises is the third child.

Tonino Mebarak (elder half-brother from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Tonino is the fourth child and the closest to Shakira, having worked many years as her road manager. 

Alberto Wiliam Mebarak Otero (elder half-brother from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Alberto is a lawyer.

Jose Antonio Mebarak (elder half-brother from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Antonio is a real estate agent. He lives in Miami

Edward Mebarak (elder half-brother from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Edward Mebarak with wife and kids

Edward is an engineer and philosopher. He lives in Miami

Lucila Mebarak Otero (elder half-sister from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Shakira’s half-sister Lucila and mother

Lucy is a surgeon.

Patricia Mebarak (elder half-sister from William’s first marriage to Lucila)

Patricia who lives in Spain, she is a special education teacher.

Ana Mebarak

Some sources say that Shakira has sister Ana but we didn’t find any confirmation. Moreover, it is said that Shakira has 8 half-siblings (the ninth died when she was young). Ana would be ninth half-sibling and that make no sense. If you know more please leave a comment.

Shakira boyfriend

Gerard Pique Bernabeu (partner)

Duration of Relationship: March 2011 till present

Date of Birth: February 2, 1987

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Her first highly publicized relationship was with Antonio de la Rua the son of the then Argentinean president which started in 2000 and lasted for about 11 years. In 2010, her song was virtually on the lips of every football lover as she sang Waka Waka (This time for Africa) which was the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. She met her current lover when at the video shoot for the famous song and they quickly got interested in each other. By March 2011, the Columbian pride revealed that she was now romantically involved with the 10-years younger Spanish soccer player.

According to the Whenever, Wherever hitmaker, her hunky lover supports her in everything and they talk about everything.  Both Spanish lovers and their numerous fans agree on their active social pages that they have the cutest family.

Shakira children

Milan Pique Mebarak (son with Gerard Pique)

Date of Birth: January 22, 2013

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Baby Milan became a member of the Barcelona football club at birth just like it was with Gerard. Two months after the birth of her first son, the dedicated hard worker had t return back to work in order to resume her role as a coach on the world famous talent show, The Voice.

Sasha Pique Mebarak (son with Gerard Pique)

Date of Birth: January 29, 2015

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Early  2015, Shakira and her Spanish beau became parents to another overdose of cuteness and since his birth, his pictures are seen on the internet every now and then. We hear rumors that another baby is on the way but nothing has been confirmed yet. The Pique-Mebarak brothers are like the other children to famous celebrities who steal important award shows with their innocently adorable selves.

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