Muscle Damage and the Bodyâs Response. Muscle injuries occur when the force in the muscle is so great that the tissue begins to tear. This can occur within the muscle itself, where the tendon attaches to the bone, or most commonly, at the junction between the muscle and tendon.
Shakira was born in Barranquilla, Colombia to a Colombian mother, Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado, of Catalan and Italian decent, and an American born father of Lebanese descent, William Mebarak Chadid. Shakira, means grateful or full of grace in Arabic, is named after her grandmother.
Her father, William Alberto Mebarak Chadid, is of Lebanese descent. Her mother, Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado, is Colombian, born in Arenosa, Colombia. Shakiraâs motherâs ancestry includes Spanish (Catalan and Castilian) and Italian, as well as possibly other. Shakira is a partner of Catalan Spanish football player Gerard PiquÃ©, with whom she has two children, Milan PiquÃ© and Sasha PiquÃ©. Sakiraâs name, Shakira, means âthankfulâ in Arabic. She uses Turkish-Arabic belly dancing in a lot of her performances. Shakiraâs paternal grandparents were Alberto Mebarak Spath (the son of MoisÃ©s Isaac Mebarak and Latibe Spath) and Isabel Chadid Baizer (the daughter of Pedro Chadid Raide and Rosa Baizer Gandur). Alberto was born in Cartagena, BolÃ­var Dept, Colombia, to Lebanese immigrants, from Beirut and ZahlÃ©, respectively.