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Shakira bags 6 Latin Grammy nominations
Reuters, New York
Colombian yodeller Shakira scooped six Latin Grammy nominations last Tuesday, including record and album of the year, vying with newcomers and established stars of the Spanish language music world.The sultry songstress, whose music combines pop with Latin and Middle Eastern rhythms, was also nominated for best female pop vocal album for Fijacion Oral Vol. 1, best engineered album, best short video, and song of the year, a songwriters' award, for La Tortura. Fijacion Oral Vol. 1 has already taken best Latin rock/alternative album at the 2005 Grammys, and female Latin pop album at the Latin Billboard Awards. In the first week of its US release, 157,000 copies were sold, the highest for any Spanish language album. Shakira, a bilingual singer-songwriter, has sold more than 30 million albums since her 1996 debut album, Pies descalzos. Univision, one of the major Spanish-language channels, will broadcast the Latin Granny Awards from New York's Madison Square Garden.
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