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Shakira: Colombian Gold

Ted Kessler, The Observer, 14 July 2002

As a schoolgirl she drove the nuns crazy with her belly dancing, now she's got the world gyrating. Ted Kessler meets Shakira, the Colombian superstar with a papal blessing and finds out why it's all Depeche Mode's fault

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