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.
What's more, when Shakira broke through in the United States, she'd already been a huge star across Latin America since 1996. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born February 2nd, 1977, and raised in a middle class family in the Colombian port city of Barranquilla. Her Colombian-born mother is of Spanish and Italian descent; her New York City-born father's parents had emigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon.