Long before filling stadiums with their concerts and becoming a world star, Shakira It was simply a girl who dreamed with music from a humble corner of northern Barranquilla. His tour began in the 202 department of a building in the Limoncito neighborhood. Today, that place is part of the great history of Latin music.
On that site, marked by quiet streets, leafy trees and a park that today bears his name, Shakira He wrote songs and practiced guitar sitting on the ladder, oblivious to what fate had prepared for her.
Shakira He shared the little home with his parents, Nidia del Carmen Ripoll and William Mebarak Chadid, who supported her from the first moment. Neighbors of the neighborhood remember that the house had three bedrooms, and that hers was in the background, his habitat and where he composed in solitude.
With just 14 years, from that room he recorded his first album, magic. A year later, he celebrated his 15 surrounded by friends at a modest party, like many middle class girls in Colombia. But not everything was easy.
How is the house inside which Shakira lived with her family being a girl
In an interview with People magazine, Shakira He opened a window to the most crude past of his life: “I remember the day I entered my house and they were not all the furniture because my dad had to pay his debts.”. That scene marked a before and after, since the family economy was so fragile that their parents decided to show a hard postcard of their country.
“They took me to the park where they showed me other children of my age inhaling cement. They were orphans and had no one to take care of them,” revealed. That impact was not on memory. Thus, in 1997 he created the Desalzos Foundation Foundation, in order to offer education and opportunities to vulnerable boys, such as those I had seen in that park.
Years later, press media visited the old house of Shakirathat which has so many memories of your childhood. The white building, now repainted, is still intact. However, current owners prefer to stay away from the focus. They do not allow photos or visits. However, there are many fans who are still present in the vicinity of the house. It is a cult point. A symbol.
That small apartment is no longer just a home, it is a seed of everything that would come later. Because there, in that space where furniture was missing but dreams were born, he was born Shakirawho years later would end up becoming the voice of generations.
