On the red carpet Huffington Inaugural Ball

Here is an interview of Shakira and other starts on the red carpet at the Huffington Post Inaugural Ball from last night! Tonight was the Inaugural Celebration in which stars such as Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Sting, Shakira and Beyonce sang for the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama. I will post photographs from the performance as well as a stream of it soon.

Plunge into Poverty Made Her a Better Person

Pop superstar SHAKIRA went from spoiled rich kid to hardship when her father’s jewellery business went bankrupt - and the change in fortunes gave the singer a first-hand view of a life she’d never have known if her family hadn’t failed. In a telling essay Shakira has written for the upcoming issue of Newsweek magazine, the star recalls the family upheaval, which helped to turn her into a champion for the poor in her native Colombia.

She writes, “When I was 7 years old, my hardworking father’s jewelry business went bankrupt. I didn’t know what the word ‘bankrupt’ meant, and when my parents sent me to stay with family friends in Los Angeles, while they addressed the situation, I assumed that I would return home to my normal routine.

“But, when I returned, it seemed everything had changed. Our two cars that I had ridden in to school or to play with my friends were gone. The air conditioner that cooled us during the brutally hot Colombian summers had been sold. Our color television had been traded in for a smaller, black-and-white version. Foods that I loved were replaced with the bland staples a mother buys when food becomes sustenance instead of something to be enjoyed.

Source: Contact Music

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