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- "For me, Shakira is like Beyoncé or Madonna, when I received her call saying that she liked my style and that she had a song to launch me, I couldn't believe it, I was paralyzed and my girlfriend was also very happy for me" (en)
- Shakira’s early foresight in blending Spanish and English within her music paved the way for today’s artists, who now benefit from the doors she helped to open. Reflecting on the music industry today, superstars like Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Karol G navigate high-profile careers entirely in Spanish, a testament to how far the industry has evolved from the days when bilingual or English-language offerings were deemed necessary for true crossover success. (en)
- From her philanthropy to her ability to influence world leaders, it seems like there's nothing Shakira can't do. (en)
- She came with the belly dancing era and everybody, like, in Washington Heights, in the Bronx, they wanted to be, like, belly dancers and everything...Even girls that don't speak Spanish, or they don't really know Spanish, they were just, like, belly dancing. It was just, like, a crazy era. (en)
- More than two decades later, it's hard to imagine what the modern pop landscape would be like without the Colombian superstar, especially considering the explosion in popularity other Latin artists have experienced after her. (en)
- She is seen as something of a saint in her own country. There are statues to her. Writhing teens love her for putting Latin American dance-music around the world: nuns revere her for building schools for orphans.. (en)
- What tends to happen with Latin artists is that they tend to have one big English-language record or two and then they revert to making Spanish records... She does a very good job of managing to synergize those two careers. Shakira is competing against iconic female artists and completely standing on her own, but she also has a career in Spanish as well, so she's completely unique in that respect (en)
- Shakira for us in Colombia and I think in the entire Latin industry, she's one of the most important singers in the world because she's been able to crossover. She speaks and sings in English and Spanish, so she has everything. She also has three songs in the World Cup. I want to do that in the future—I want to be a legend, not just a singer. A legend. Somebody that you can remember forever. (en)
- Shakira is a pioneer who has redefined the scope of Latin American singers and has become one of the most intriguing voices in Latin pop/rock today. (en)
- "For a long time the prejudices, the people who handled the radios, the 'gatekeepers' kept the gates closed preserving what they believed had to sound on the radio. That was my turn, I had to face a very closed industry, very obtuse so when I started putting out music in English and I also kept putting out music in Spanish, but I kept mixing and making a fusion of rhythms from Colombian cumbia to Middle Eastern influences , wanting that to sound on Anglo-Saxon radio was really a challenge" (en)
- Carlos Vives said: "You will see that there are curramberas of all ages and there are Shakiras of all ages, who knew what they were doing there, the happiness with which they did it, with which they represented you, they all wanted to be you." (en)
- I feel so grateful for her existence because she's put belly dance on the map in pop culture at a time where nobody even knew what belly dancing was in Western entertainment. So I really respect that, her fierceness, her sassiness, everything about that. (en)
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- Dana Rodriguez, BMI Foundation (en)
- Erynn Ruiz (en)
- Hannah Dailey, Billboard (en)
- Jose Soto (en)
- La Prensa Redaction, La Prensa (en)
- Nora Fatehi, 2021 (en)
- Rob Stringer, Billboard, 2009 (en)
- Shakira, Andina (news agency) (en)
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