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 * //Hispanic Heritage Essay//**

//**"I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature."-Shakira. Shakira is a Hispanic singer who had many struggles and challenges... but she over came them. She has sacraefice lot of things to get where she is now, she also accomplished one of her dreams.. to being a famous singer or just a person where she can give back to her family because her parents also sacraficed a lot and help her too.**//

//**When Shakira was first born her parents weren't the richest or the best educated or the best at anything... but Shakira was different she actually wanted a future for her and she wanted to be someone. Her parents wanted her to also become someone, but everybody lived in a 3 bedroom apartment and it was her, her parents, and her grandparents. They all lived together so they couldn't do much... Shakira means "grateful" in Arabic, and she was a very grateful girl. When Shakira started school she didn't go to the best school in Baraqunilla, Colombia.. there where a lot of dangerous people around her school and where she lived. She had to go to one of the not so good schools because her parents didn't have enough money for a good private school. When she turned 13 they bought her a guitar, and that's when she decided that she wanted to be a singer.. she taught herself how to play and how to belly dance. When she finally learned how to play the guitar and learned how to dance she made a song and she sold more than 3 million copies! She then wanted to move to Miami, Florida to go to a record studio to see if she was good enough. When she was 13 she didn't know English only Spanish, they told her she was good but it would be better if she learned English. They put all there money down for her to learn English and it all worked.**//

//**She made a song in English called "She Wolf" and made a hit single in the charts in Miami. But there was one problem.. she didn't come to Florida with papers, she had the choice to go back to Colombia or to not be able to come back to the U.S for 12 years. She had no choice but to go back to Columbia, and that's when her producer said she can't be able to make any songs unless she finds someone is Colombia. Luckly someone in Coloumbia made a deal with her to be her producer. She made another song called "Estoy Aqui" ( I'm Here) and that song was dedicated to her parents who started getting sick but they got better. Her contract was only for a year, so she had to stop in the music industry. She got focused on her future and tried to find someone to be her music producer, she went online to see if she could apply to get a visa to go back to Miami, Florida. She prayed everyday if she could go to Miami and keep singing, she got the visa and she was super happy! The next day she find out they didn't have enough money to get a plane ticket, someone let her borrow money so she could go to Miami and she was extreamly grateful and cried tears of joy. When she went back Miami she felt like shes never been there. Shakira went to the same guy like she did before and now that she knows English she made another song in English called "Invitetable" in 1998 dedicated to her ex boyfriend.**//

//**As she started getting older she made more and more songs and got more populer and famous. She got high in charts everywhere even in her home town Colombia! She wanted to take a break in the music indrutry, so she went back to Colombia for a year! Everybody know her in Colombia so everybody asked for her signature. She made a lot of duets with other famous pop stars like, Jlo, Pitbull, Prince Royce, and even Rihanna! She started getting**//

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