Shakira\'s crossover success has been predicted for years by those in the know.
Though her fourth album, D nde est n los ladrones? (Where Are the Thieves?), went platinum eight tim.
She was only nineteen when her third album, Pies descalzos (Barefoot), made her the bestselling female rock star in Latin America.
She landed her first record deal when she was a mere thirteen years old, recorded her second album at fifteen, and starred in a popular soap opera in her native Colombia.
Shakira\'s crossover success has been predicted for years by those in the know