Shakira was appointed to the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics in the United States in 2011, and Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012.

During a flight from Barranquilla to Bogotá, Ariza convinced Sony Music Colombia executive Ciro Vargas to hold an audition for Shakira in a hotel lobby.

Vargas held Shakira in high regard and, returning to the Sony Music Colombia office, gave the cassette to a song and artist director.

More developed than Magia, it lists many musicians who participated in the recordings, has fuller sound and features a video for "Tú Serás la Historia de Mi Vida".

The Remixes is a highly popular album where Shakira showcases newly recorded songs and vocals, while Ochoa demonstrates his instrument playing and music production skills.

Besides singing, dancing and speaking to the assembled (she values communications very highly and has said that her most important treasure is "words"),[31] Shakira played the guitar and, prominently at that time, harmonica.

[38] Her manager, Emilio Estefan, took an early notice of Shakira's unprecedented, among Latin American artists, potential for a "crossover" into the enormous U.S. music market because of her "universally catchy pop-rock melodies, cerebral lyrics, unwavering self-determination and natural sex appeal".

[27] "Underneath Your Clothes", "Objection (Tango)", "The One", "Te Dejo Madrid", "Que Me Quedes Tú", and "Poem to a Horse" were other Laundry Service songs issued as singles.

[48] A similar view was expressed by Elizabeth Mendez Berry in Vibe: "While her Spanish-language albums sparkled with elegant wordplay, this record is rife with cliches, both musically and lyrically.

[31] In Chicago Tribune, journalist Joshua Klein, while not uncritical of aspects of Shakira's stagecraft as displayed at the United Center in January 2003, characterized her "international ascent" as "as multilateral, multicultural and cooperative as they come.

"[51] Klein wrote of Shakira who dyed her dark hair blond, "enlisted Gloria Estefan's husband to help her with her crossover mission", and produced a "so resolutely middle-of-the-road" current batch of music.

[51] Shakira released four songs for Pepsi for her promotion in the English markets: "Ask for More", "Pide Más", "Knock on My Door", and "Pídeme el Sol".

In February 2007, Shakira performed for the first time at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards and earned the nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Hips Don't Lie" with Wyclef Jean.

Shakira wrote the lyrics, and jointly composed the music, for two new songs that are featured in the movie Love in the Time of Cholera, based on the novel of the same title written by Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.

Mike Diver on BBC Review sees in it "perhaps the most enjoyably varied pop album of 2009" but detects "a greater sense of passion in songs playing out in her native tongue".

On 9 November 2011, Shakira was honored as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year for her artistic achievements and philanthropic undertakings; she was the youngest of the musicians who had had received this distinction.

[81] In September 2012, it was announced that Shakira and Usher would replace in March 2013 Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Green as coaches for the fourth season of the U.S. TV show The Voice.

The El Dorado World Tour was announced on 27 June 2017,[100][non-primary source needed][101][102] through Shakira's official Twitter account, and was slated to be sponsored by Rakuten.

[107] In addition, a journalist from the Brazilian edition of the Portuguese newspaper Destak announced, on his Twitter account, that the Colombian singer would visit Brazil the following March.

[108][non-primary source needed] However, according to the same newspaper, due to Shakira's hiatus to recover from her vocal-cord haemorrhage, the Latin American dates were also postponed to the second half of 2018.

[109][non-primary source needed] Eventually, Shakira did recover fully from the haemorrhage she had suffered and resumed her tour, performing in Hamburg, Germany on 3 June 2018.

[113] Shakira appeared in two television specials performing her songs during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Global Goal: Unite for Our Future (with "Sale el Sol")[114] and The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II (with "Try Everything").

[126] The single reached number-one in 16 countries,[127] achieved 14 Guinness World Records,[128] and peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Shakira's fifth top ten in the US and her first in over 15 years, since "Beautiful Liar" (2007).

[141] The following month, on the issue dated 29 July 2023, Shakira became the first woman in history to occupy the top three spots on the Latin Pop Airplay chart—with "TQG" at the summit, and "Acróstico" and "Copa Vacía" at numbers two and three.

[161] In April, she joined Bizarrap onstage, as a surprise guest, during his set at 2024 Coachella, to perform their collaborations "La Fuerte" and "Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol.

I'm a fusion between black and white, between pop and rock, between cultures – between my Lebanese father and my mother's Spanish blood, the Colombian folklore and Arab dance I love and American music.

[210] AllMusic's biographer Steve Huey described her as a "Wildly inventive diva who created a cross-cultural pop sound rooted in her native Colombia but encompassing nearly every territory in the world.

[235] Many artists have cited Shakira as an influence, including Rihanna,[236] Taylor Swift,[237] Selena Gomez,[238] Katy Perry,[239] Christina Aguilera,[240] Justin Bieber,[241] Maluma,[242] Ozuna,[243] Ed Sheeran,[244] Anitta,[245] Cardi B,[246] and many more.

[247] The Guardian has written an extensive article about Shakira's impact on Colombia's social change, specifically in education, and her ability to discuss this issue with world leaders like Barack Obama, and Gordon Brown.

[303] In 2020, Shakira was appointed by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge as a voters' council member for the Earthshot prize which provides 50 environmental pioneers with the funds needed to further their work in tackling major problems impacting the environment.