Shakira

After the sex-plosion that was Laundry Service, Shakira breaks a four-year silence with an album that's remarkably thoughtful and -- dare we say it? -- mature. "La Tortura" is the token party track -- and what a party track -- but it's the sweet songs like "Dia de Enero" and "En Tus Pupilas" that really shine.

Longtime fans know Shakira as a singer-songwriter of more depth and breadth than her
2001 English-language breakthrough, Laundry Service, revealed. For her first album of new
Spanish-language material since 1998's Donde Estan los Ladrones?, the Colombian songstress
flaunts sides to her musical personality repressed by the hip-swiveling babe who stormed
American radio with "Whenever, Wherever" and "Underneath Your Clothes." Fij... More >