Cultural impact of Shakira

[14] Various media describe Shakira as an artist who makes Latin American culture visible in across the world and credit her for opening the doors of the international industry to Latinos.

By globalizing her music and brand, Shakira broke records and language barriers, allowing for younger artists like Bad Bunny and J Balvin to have their songs played on American radio.

Shakira's appearance on the international market was somewhat different from the other crossover artists such as Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias or Gloria Estefan, who already spoke fluent English.

Author Andrew Hammond credits the Colombian artist for impacting and shifting the images of Arab pop stars such as Moroccan Samira Said and Lebanese Nawal Al Zoghbi.

Mexican journalist, Natalia More than two decades later, it's hard to imagine what the modern pop landscape would be like without the Colombian superstar, especially considering the explosion in popularity other Latin artists have experienced after her.

"[31] Public Broadcasting Service recognizes Shakira as one of the fuelers of the "Golden Age of Latin Music" which is credited to have reshaped America's cultural landscape for the twenty-first century".

[77] The 2006 global smash hit "Hips Don't Lie" was selected as one of the greatest songs by 21st century female artists by US National Public Radio, ranked at number 65.

[78] Its success has been such that the media point out that possibly without its crossover many Latin artists such as Karol G, Becky G, Bad Bunny, Maluma or J Balvin would possibly not have the recognition that they enjoy today, and it is seen as a great step in the Latin industry since with the voice of Shakira the music industry would stop only focusing on American artists and Latinas would enter the arena such as Paulina Rubio, Thalía and even Fey who also ventured to conquer other audiences.

Another case is with the urban singer Maluma with whom they made their song "Chantaje" opening doors in the international market and granting him his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 list.

"Her music career and public persona ... occupies the interstices between the Latin American and US Latinos contained within the rubric of Latinidad, Cepeda goes on to note "her multiple subject position (as Lebanese-Colombian, Caribbean-Colombian, female, popular performer, and recent US migrant) contribute to a sense of Latins and Colombians both within and outside U.S borders", with her statements rejecting the tenets and aims of SB 1070, Shakira is also a great example of how a clearly politicized sense of Trinidad operates in defense of all Latinos deemed "illegal" in the eyes of the law.

Latin artists like Natti Natasha, Rosalía, Belinda, Greeicy Rendón, Natalia Lafourcade, Dulce María, Francisca Valenzuela, Anitta, Farina show their admiration and name her as a woman who inspires them, making them trust their own talent to succeed in an industry where they should not be afraid to write nor sing about their feelings, strengths, fears and experiences to stand out where men still predominate.

During the arrival of the "Oral Fixation World Tour" concert in countries like Peru, various newscasts referred to the large number of fans as "a great Shakiramania".

Venezuelan channel RCTV made a 24-hour television special of videos about Shakira calling it "Shakiramanía "[146] "Pies descalzos" was the first international album that Shakira released after the commercial failures "Magia" and "Peligro" and is considered one of the most important Spanish albums of all time[147] in which Latin music was revitalized during the 90's and she also became the biggest Latin female star in various countries like Brazil, Colombia, Peru, USA, and Japan.

the MTV network opens the doors of its channel to her to rotate her music and make an Unplugged album to demonstrate her power live, something that had not happened with almost any Colombian artist".

This fact in music became a milestone for its global artistic, cultural, and commercial impact, and it transcended time for what is considered this album with the songs of ¿Dónde Están Los Ladrones?

In media words thanks to what the woman from Barranquilla began to communicate with her sound and lyrics on her hands-on album, no one could take their eyes off her and that's when Colombia realized that it had a universal artist among them.

Throughout the continent, the choirs of her songs sounded in children's toys and, to words of the media the most important, she brought music in Spanish to audiences with cultures totally opposed to the Latinoamerican, such as Brazilians, Europeans, Africans and Asiatic.

[158] Nicole Collazo Santana has mentioned that "Shakira reclaimed the male-dominated genre (pop rock) with music, turned the form into her diary, and gave it to us as a little annotated guide to navigate machismo in all the places we find it in the world.

"[160] The vice president of MTV explained that in the industry, women are mostly interpreters in the vast majority of times, Shakira is not the case since she is involved in the composition and production of her albums.

Inspired a whole generation of women to write their own songs unapologetically," quoting female artists such as Jessie Reyes and Francisca Valenzuela who went directly influenced by it.

When I was older I discovered other singers, but as a girl that was something that caught my attention, seeing in those songs, insecurities, rages and envies, that verbose debauchery that I felt when I listened to other music in English, or of men or in Literature texts.

"[189][190] Vogue Mexico, described Shakira's early style as "unique" fashion that mixed the "urban" and "bucolic", highlighting both the ripped pants she used, as well as her cropped garments, which were often in her favorite shade, black.

"[213] In an article on Esquire Isabella Garces similarly notes that Shakira unified Colombia and that she became a positive symbol instead of the negative association of the country with Pablo Escobar and drugs.

[215] In late 90s, then president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana hailed Shakira as an "Emblem of a New National Era" for bringing forth a rather positive image to the country despite its "violence-plagued" reality.

Culturs magazine notes that Shakira has a big and diverse fanbase in Latin America, United States, and places as odd as Saudi Arabia.

He also added, "If a team of scientists were commissioned to build the perfect pop star, chances are the result would bear a striking resemblance to Colombian singing sensation Shakira.

"For me, Shakira is like Beyoncé or Madonna, when I received her call saying that she liked my style and that she had a song to launch me, I couldn't believe it, I was paralyzed and my girlfriend (Rosalía) was also very happy for me" Shakira has also received the admiration of various artists such as: Madonna,[350] Lady Gaga,[351] Momoland,[352] Itzy,[353] Black M,[354] Daddy Yankee,[355] Norah Jones,[356] IZA,[357] Ariana Grande,[358] Eminem,[359] Chayanne,[360] Chris Evans,[361] Celine Dion, Coldplay, Kesha,[362] Ricky Martin,[363] and Kings of Leon.

[364] Many artists, celebrities and politicians have also attended Shakira's concerts, such as: Yoshiki, Hiroshi Mikitani,[365] Ayumi Hamasaki, Namie Amuro,[366]Rupert Grint and Emma Watson,[367] Felipe Calderon,[368] Juan Manuel Santos, Michelle Bachelet, Queen Rania of Jordan, Jim Carrey[369] Sebastián Piñera,[370] Rafael Nadal,[371]King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain and more.

"[388] In 2021, El Tiempo columnist; Juan Esteban Constaín argued that Shakira has contributed to Colombia's welfare specifically in the education sector more than the country's "corrupt" political system.

[395] Shakira has closely worked with notable politicians like U.S. Presidents, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton,[396] U.K Prime Minister, Gordon Brown,[397] Qatari royal consort, Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser,[398] Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.