Shakira Among Those Recieving $26,000 Swag Bag

The performers at this Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards including Shakira, Kanye West, Green Day, and Mariah Carey will each receive a gift bag worth more than $26,000.

So, I know this guy who is in a band that was playing this showcase event during an awards show who managed to scam a swag bag. It didn't seem like a big deal...

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Shakira's Former Guitarist Releasing Solo Project

Born prematurely in a rural New Mexico hospital, Raul Midon and his twin brother Marco (now a NASA engineer) were blinded as infants after spending time in an incubator without adequate eye protection. The sounds of music became integral to Midon's life around age 4, when his father, a professional dancer, introduced him to the drum.

Midon, who is of African-American and Argentinian descent, joined Miami's multicultural musical community after college. He rose to local prominence as a studio musician, cut a Spanish language album and toured with South American superstar Shakira as a member of her band.

Midon's debut album, "State of Mind," both defies genre classification and defines the main ingredient of his success.

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Shakira Will Be First To Perform Spanish Number At MTV Awards

Shakira will make history when she performs her Spanish-language single LA Tortura at the 28 August show in Miami.

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Shakira Hates Being Mistaken For Britney

Latin singer Shakira is horrified when fans mistake her for chart rival Britney Spears.

Shakira says: "They ask me if I'm Britney Spears…what a silly comparison: Shakira would never marry a back-up dancer."

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Shakira Would Rather Be Naked

Shakira says she she has no time for fashion and is most comfortable when she's naked.

Asked if she enjoyed picking new outfits, the 27-year-old replied: "Not at all - it bores me. I only got a stylist when my family were astonished to see me in the same evening dress three Christmases in a row.

"If I could I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise."

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Sambas And Cha-Chas Making A Comeback, Shakira Songs Are Great For Sambas

Some of the Latin music that is popular with the younger crowd also makes for good dancing. The cha-cha, for example, goes great with Santana. Mark Anthony and Shakira are wonderful accompaniments to sambas.

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Shakira To Perform AT MTV's Latin American Awards

Shakira, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan and Foo Fighters are the first artists confirmed to perform at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards Latin America. The fourth VMALAs will be held Oct. 20 in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, marking the event's first venture outside of Miami.

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Shakira Starting Family When Her Career Calms Down

SHAKIRA is desperate to have children. She says, "That's the big project of my life. I want one boy and one girl."

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Shakira At Live 8 In Paris

An afternoon crowd of 60,000 swelled to 100,000 by evening, police said, cramming the tree-lined boulevard leading up to the 17th century palace that was once home to King Louis XIV. The masses fell silent during two soaring arias by Bocelli and then danced in time to tunes by Tina Arena and Latin superstar Shakira.

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Shakira due in Cairo

Famous Lebanese /Colombian singer Shakira has finally agreed after months of negotiations to hold a concert in Cairo at the end of August.

This is the only appearance she will make in the Arab world.

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Shakira Trouble Drama

The WHENEVER, WHEREVER singer, 28, is currently embracing a new streak, after missing out on a rebellious phase when she was growing up.

"I never went though an adolescence when kids become rebels and do drugs. I was always the good girl.

"Women are all the same. We're just trouble. Trouble's my middle name, and Drama is my last name. Shakira Trouble Drama."

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Tennis Star Learning Spanish from Shakira Albums

Bulgaria's Sesil Karatantcheva is a colourful character. The 15-year-old, who is competing in her first Wimbledon Championships, has picked up the English language by listening to Spice Girls songs and is now learning Spanish thanks to the dulcet tones of Shakira.

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Shakira Makes Appearance in Mexico City

Colombian pop star Shakira drew thousands of fans to an appearance in Mexico City to promote her new album, "Fijacion Oral Vol 1."

The slender, golden-tressed singer signed autographs and greeted fans Thursday who had waited hours to see her, braving rain and long lines.

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Shakira says she's shy

The 28-year-old Colombian, who shows off her grease-painted curves as she writhes around in the video for her latest single LA Tortura, claims she's extremely inhibited.

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Music is a language on its own

A singer since she was a teen, the Shakira has long been a sensation in Latin America and in many Spanish-speaking countries, selling millions of records with her sultry voice, rock-tinged anthems and belly gyrations.

Yet mounting a campaign for similar success in the United States proved to be more taxing than even Shakira anticipated.

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Shakira Album Back On Ritmo Shelves

A dispute that has kept Shakira's top-selling new album, "Fijación Oral, Vol. 1" (Epic), out of most Ritmo Latino stores has been resolved with a handshake and a smile -- and the recording back on store shelves.

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Fijación Oral Vol. 1

No one expects pop sex symbols to be as smart or ambitious as Shakira, the 28-year-old songwriter from Colombia who regularly shows the world her navel. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was already a superstar in Latin America when she switched to writing and singing in English for her 2001 album "Laundry Service" (Epic) which sold two million copies in the United States. Her new album, "Fijación Oral Vol. 1" (Epic), returns to Spanish, but it's hardly a retreat; in November she is scheduled to release a companion album, "Oral Fixation Vol. 2," with songs in English.

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