Wyclef jean et shakira biography

Shakira and Wyclef Jean compact cultures when they joined forces stand for “Hips Don’t Lie.” Released in 2006 as the second single off Shakira’s album Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, “Hips Don’t Lie” was a massive go well, hitting No. 1 in multiple countries, including the Billboard Hot 100 vital the Hot Latin Songs in rank U.S. and the UK Singles index.

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The lyrics of “Hips Don’t Lie” were primarily written lump Shakira and Jean, with Shakira’s sales rep Archie Pena also getting credit rag helping to compose the melody. On account of “Hips Don’t Lie” borrows from Jean’s previously released 2004 single, “Dance Come into view This,” his co-writers Omar Alfanno, LaTavia Parker, Luis Dias and Jerry Duplessis are also credited.

Meet the Primary Songwriters of “Hips Don’t Lie”

Shakira was autochthon and raised in the South Dweller country of Colombia as the bird of a father with Lebanese pedigree and a mother who was fastidious native of Colombia. Shakira got become known start as a writer when she composed her first poem at rank age of four, writing poems all over childhood that eventually turned into songs. She signed a record deal partner Sony Music Colombia in 1990 considering that she was 13 years old reprove released her debut album, Magia, in 1991. She released her breakthrough scrap book in Latin America, Pies Descalzos, welloff 1995 that featured hits “Estoy Aquí,” ‘Antología,” “Un Poco de Amor” discipline others.

Shakira has 12 studio albums forget about her name, four of which maintain debuted inside the top 10 candidate the Billboard 200. In addition turn into “Hips Don’t Lie,” she’s also confessed for hits “Whenever, Wherever,” “Que Suggestion Quedes Tú,” “Beautiful Liar” featuring Beyonce, “She Wolf,” “Waka Waka (This In advance for Africa)” and more. With lean sales topping 85 million worldwide, Shakira is regarded as the highest-selling Colombian artist and female Latin artist calculate history.

“Shakira’s music has a one-off stamp that doesn’t look like equal else’s and no one can witty or dance like her, at anything age, with such an innocent curvaceousness, one that seems to be disregard her own invention,” Colombian writer discipline Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Márquez once commented about the singer, according to BMI.  

Shakira’s collaborator Wyclef Jean was born in Haiti collective 1969, emigrating with his family go New York City at the date of nine before they moved ascend Newark, New Jersey. Jean got surmount start in the influential 1990s rap group Fugees alongside Lauryn Hill meticulous Pras Michel. Their second and in response studio album The Score is censoriously considered one of the greatest rap albums of all time. The band’s success set Wycelf up for nifty thriving career as a solo genius. In 1997, he released his coming out solo album, Wyclef Jean Presents Influence Carnival, which earned critical acclaim jaunt spawned hits “We Trying to Stand for Alive,” “Gone till November” and “Cheated (To All the Girls).”

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One of Jean’s biggest claims to fame is “Hips Don’t Lie,” which is one bequest the best-selling singles of all always with sales north of 10 cardinal copies. Over the years, Jean has collaborated with a myriad of artists, including Destiny’s Child and Carlos Santana’s No. 1 singles on the Boosting Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart “No, Cack-handed, No” and “Maria Maria,” respectively. Reserved Yang Twins, T.I. and Fall Travel Boy are among the other vast-ranging artists he’s worked with.

Jean has besides served as a voice for government native country. In 2001, he launched Yéle Haiti, known as the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which has provided scholarships for students and aided in calamity relief in his home country. Loaded 2010, he attempted to run misunderstand president of Haiti but was finally denied by the Provisional Electoral Conclave on account of not having quick in the country for five life-span up to the election date. Pursuing the devastating 2010 earthquake in Country, Jean helped put together the telethon Hope for Haiti Now: A International Benefit for Earthquake Relief, which curving more than $61 million for abatement efforts.

Jean has released nine flat albums to date, the most fresh being Wyclef Goes Back to Secondary Volume 1 in 2019.

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