Shakira Net Worth

Net Worth:$300 Million
Date of Birth: February 2, 1977 (47 years old)
Gender:Female
Height:5 ft 1 in (1.57 m)
Profession:Record producer, Singer-songwriter, Musician, Dancer, Choreographer, Model, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
Nationality:Colombia

What is Shakira’s net worth? How does Shakira make her money? Below is the current net worth of Shakira and how Shakira makes her money.

What is Shakira’s net worth?

Shakira is a Colombian Musician, songwriter, and Entrepreneur who has a net worth of $300 million dollars. She is the most popular Colombian singer and the second-most successful Latina singer of all time behind Gloria Estefan.

As of this writing, she is one of the most fortunate singers around the globe and has sold more than 125 million singles and albums worldwide.

She won thirteen Latin Grammy Awards, thirty-nine Billboard Latin Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and seven Billboard Music Awards.

Also in 2009, she is one out of only three female artists to have two YouTube videos exceeding two billion views, she is also ranked as the most-streamed Latin artist on Spotify, and listed as the Top Female Artist of the Decades by Billboard.

Childhood

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is the only child of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado who was birthed in Barranquilla, Colombia on 2 February 1977. she spent most of her childhood in the city on the northern Caribbean coast of Colombia in Barranquilla.

The name Shakira in Arabic means grateful. Her paternal grandparents relocated from Lebanon to New York City, where her father was born, and later immigrated to Colombia when he was only five.

Shakira is (Catalan and Castilian) Spanish but Italian on her mother’s side. She was raised and schooled in Roman Catholic. From her father’s previous marriage, she has eight half-siblings who are older than her.

Growing up, she was absorbed in watching her father use his typing machines to write stories she sometimes requested one for Christmas and eventually got one at age seven. She wrote her first poem, “La Rosa De Cristal (The Crystal Rose),” at four, and continued writing more which eventually morphed into songs.

At local events in Barranquilla, Shakira’s career started getting recognition and launched for her singing by her contact with Monica Ariza a local theatre producer between ages 10 and 13.

Monica convinced Sony Colombia record executive Ciro Vargas to allow Shakira to audition in the hotel lobby during a  Barranquilla to Bogota flight. Eventually, Sony’s song was not impressed by the performance but Vargas was.

Vargas went ahead to organize an audition for Shakira in Bogota and arranged for the Sony Colombia executive’s presence with the intention of impressing them with her performance. In the end, she got three record deals for three songs she sang.

Relationship

From 2000 and 2011 Shakira and Antonio de la Rua, an Argentinian attorney were in a relationship for eleven years. According to Shakira’s interview session in 2009, the love birds were regarded as married couples with no papers.

Even at separation, her business was still supervised by Antonio when it crumbled, he sued Shakira for $100 million on the grounds that he is to be paid even after the business partnership was put to an end in October 2011.

Around August 2013, the lawsuit was said to have been dissolved by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge.

Shakira and Gerard Piqué Spanish football player began dating in 2011 who is 10 years younger than her. Some of the teams he played for were Barcelona FC and the Spanish nationals.

They met in the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in the spring of 2010 when he appeared in the music video for her song “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa,”.

Shakira gave birth to two sons Milan, born January 22, 2013, and Sasha, born January 29, 2015. Unfortunately, in June 2022 they announced their separation.

Career

When Shakira was just 13 years, her first album was released featuring “Magia,” and three other singles in June 1991. A collection made when she was eight years old made up of her songs and traded well on Colombian radio with a little exposure but low income. About 1200 copies of the song were sold worldwide.

Following the failure, she saw on her second album in 1993’s “Peligro, “Shakira’s success stories kicked started with hits from Spanish-speaking countries “Pies Descalzos” and “Donde Estan Los Ladrones?”, between 1995’s and 1998’s.

With her fifth album, she entered the English-language market with over 20 million sold copies of “Laundry Service” (2001) and reproduced the international number-one singles “Whenever, Wherever” and “Underneath Your Clothes.

Shakira served as an instructor in an American singing competition television series “The Voice” for two seasons from 2013 to 2014.

“Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1”, “Sale el Sol” and “El Dorado”, were all her Spanish albums between 2005-2017. They were certified diamonds by the Recording Industry Association of America and topped the Billboard Top Latin Albums charts.

Also, her English albums were all certified multi-platinum, gold, and platinum, in various countries worldwide. These albums were produced between 2005-2014 and they include “Oral Fixation Vol. 2”, “She Wolf”, and “Shakira”.

Some of her music albums have topped the league on charts in several countries, including “La Tortura,” “Hips Don’t Lie,” “Beautiful Liar,” “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa),” “Loca,” and “Chantaje.

Live Nation Deal

Shakira signed a 10-year, $300 million deal with Live Nation in 2008.

The Voice Salary

It was reported that Shakira earned $12 million for “The Voice.” in 2013.

Catalog Sale

Shakira sold the rights to her publishing catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Fund in January 2021. Although terms of the deal were not disclosed but based on sales compared, it was likely worth at least $100 million.

The right to publish at least 145 songs was included in the deal.

Real Estate

Shakira listed her Minimum Miami mansion for $11.6 million situated in Miami in 2018.

She had Matt Damon, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, and Michael Bay as her neighbors.

The 20,726 square foot property on Miami’s North Bay Road overlooks the water and has more than 100 feet of access to Biscayne Bay.

The house is 8,708 square feet with six bedrooms plus seven and a half bathrooms.

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