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Shakira is a regular fixture at the World Cup. After her 'Hips Don't Lie' performance ahead of the 2006 World Cup in Berlin, this will be her second performance at the football extravaganza. Shakira revealed that she hit upon Waka Waka during her stay at her farm in Uruguay. "I was walking to the house from the barn and it suddenly came to me. I first recorded it with just the guitar and it sounded well," she said. "The FIFA concert was one of the most emotional experiences of my career. This has been one of the happiest months in my life."

Just as all children are born with the potential to learn to speak and understand their native language, all children are born with the potential to learn, to perform and to understand their culture's music.

Shakira means ‘woman of grace’ in Arabic. She gives credits to her father's Lebanese heritage for her Middle Eastern-influenced dance moves. "I think it is something in my DNA. I have been belly-dancing since I was four."

The beautiful singer had had her share of tragedies also. Her half brother was killed when a drunk driver hits the motorcycle he was riding. Just two at the time, the singer says that her first memory is learning of his death. "It made me very necrophobic". For a long time I feared death in all its aspects.

Unlike others, she wrote or co-wrote nearly all of her own songs and in the process gained a reputation of a poetic lyricist. When she released her first English lyric in late 2001, she became an instant pop sensation.

She was born on February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia, into a poor family. Her mother was a native Colombian and her father was of Lebanese descent. Shakira imbibed up music from both cultures. She also listened and learned studiously English-language rock and roll. She had written her first song at age eight and learned guitar at the age of 11. In 1990, at the age of 13, she moved to Bogotá to pursue the modeling career, but ended at singing with Sony's Colombian division. Her 1991 debut album, Magia (Magic), was comprised of songs she'd written over the past five or six years, including some of her earliest efforts. The magic of her voice kept the world spell bound.

Born March 20, 1986, Stefani Germanotta attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart school in New York. As a teenager she began writing songs and playing open mic nights at clubs in Manhattan. While in high school she performed in a wide range of dramatic plays and musicals. At the age of 17, Stefani was admitted to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.Through her club connections in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Stefani Germanotta met and began working with producer Rob Fusari in 2006. It was Fusari who helped create the stage name Lady GaGa with inspiration from Queen's classic hit "Radio GaGa." It is a reference to sharing the flamboyant spirit of Queen's Freddie Mercury. Lady GaGa also joined forces with DJ / performance artist Lady Starlight, and the pair made a name for themselves with such stage projects as Lady GaGa and the Starlight Revue. Unlike many of her counterparts in the Lower East Side club scene, Lady GaGa turned away from rock to pop music as her primary inspiration. She takes her inspiration from a wide variety of influences including the Cyndi Lauper music from her childhood, 70's variety shows, disco, and Madonna.

Lauren Conrad, often referred to as "L.C.", is an American reality television star and fashion design student. She is best known for her role in the MTV reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills, the latter of which earned her a Teen Choice Award in 2006 and 2007. Lauren Conrad was born in Laguna Beach, California on February 1, 1986 to James (Jim) and Katherine (nee Lawrence) Conrad. Her father is an architect (designer of the Conrad family home). Lauren Conrad has a sister three years younger named Breanna Christine Conrad (featured in Laguna Beach season three), born August 23, 1989 and a brother six years younger named Brandon James Conrad, born October 29, 1992.

Lucia Dvorská is a Slovak model who appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She was born in Bratislava, Slovakia. She was a contestant on the 2007 reality television show, A Model Life, hosted by Petra Němcová on TLC. Dvorská was a beauty pageant titleholder as the 2000 Little Miss World.

Hadise (full name: Hadise Açıkgöz) is a Turkish-Belgian R&B singer. Hadise was born Hadise Açıkgöz in Mol, Belgium on 22 October 1985 into a Turkish family. Both her parents are from Sivas, a city in central Turkey. She went to a general-education school and after that, gained a BA in Marketing.

Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, dancer, entertainer and sex symbol. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show Singled Out, on the TV series Baywatch and Summerland, for her appearances dancing with the Pussycat Dolls, and has since had roles in the parody films Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie.

Natalia Sokolova, Play boy's Miss April, had to come a long way before landing on the cover and pages of Play boy. From Russia to Los Angeles, this Russian beauty is not only stunning and intelligent, she has perseverence required to have recovered an almost deadly car accident. She represented Russia in Japan as a Peace Child and she stayed in London for a month where she had the chance to perfect the English skills she already had. Thanks to her stay in London, she won a language competition organized by the Moscow State University. Natalia's ease with the English language came in handy when she was an exchange student in the US, where she studied at Springbrook High School in Maryland, in 1993.

Leilani Dowding is an English model and celebrity. Dowding was a student when she won the Miss England competition in 1998 and subsequently competed in the Miss Universe 1998 pageant which she used to launch her modelling career. She is half English and half Filipino. She made her Page Three debut the following year and since appeared on the paper on a regular basis. She has also been a guest on various TV shows, modelling on the Big Breakfast and This Morning, acting on Dream Team and Mile High and appearing on The Weakest Link, Drop the Celebrity, Faking It and Celebrity Wrestling. She has also enjoyed a season in pantomime as Tiger Lilly in Peter Pan. She has even had a documentary made about her for Granada. Dowding also enjoys visiting the troops and has been to Bosnia, Kosovo and Cyprus on morale boosting trips.

Lisa Snowdon was born in 1974, in Welwyn Garden City, England. The Hertfordshire beauty was a waitress before appearing from oblivion. She moved to London, and was soon discovered by a Premier Model Management agent while shaking her booty at a nightclub. And hence, a model was born. Lisa has appeared in major fashion magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, as well as the occasional men's magazine, including GQ, Esquire and FHM. The latter seemed to be a huge fan of Lisa, as it featured her in 2 of its calendars, as well as chose Lisa to grace the cover of the 1999 edition of "The Girls of FHM".

Amanda "Mandy" Leigh Moore was born on April 10, 1984) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. She grew up in Florida and came to fame as a teenager in the early 2000s, after the release of her teen-oriented pop albums So Real, I Wanna Be with You, and Mandy Moore. Moore has branched out into a film career, starring in 2002's A Walk to Remember and later appearing in the lead roles of other movies also aimed at teenage audiences. Two of her later films, American Dreamz and Saved!, were satires in which Moore portrayed darker characters than in her previous roles. Moore's private life, including her relationships with tennis player Andy Roddick and actors Wilmer Valderrama and Zach Braff, has been much discussed in the media. Moore's fifth album, Wild Hope, was released in 2007.