Inside Shakira’s Far-Flung Real Estate Portfolio
Dubbed the Queen of Latin music, Shakira has acquired quite a few majestic homes throughout her career. The musical sensation, known for hits such as “Hips Don’t Lie,” “Whenever, Wherever/ Suerte,” and “La Tortura,” was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. She began performing at the age of 10, and released her first album in 1991. In 2001, she released her first English-language album, Laundry Service, and began adding to her real estate portfolio. Over the years, the songstress and UNICEF goodwill ambassador has owned properties in the US, Uruguay, Spain, Cyprus, and the Bahamas, each showcasing her minimalist style when it comes to interiors. Take a peek at the globetrotting singer’s properties worldwide and find out where her latest move has taken her and her two children.
2001
As Shakira climbed the American charts, she also put down roots in Miami. The singer purchased a Mediterranean-style home for $1.075 million on La Gorce Island in Biscayne Bay, an exclusive private-island neighborhood that has been home to celebs like Cher, Matt Damon, and Ricky Martin. The four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath home was built in 1988 and was outfitted with a garden, patio, and pool. She sold the house in 2005 for $1.8 million.
But Shakira wasn’t done house hunting. That same year she bought another home for $3.38 million on La Gorce Island, and this one boasted an amenity the other lacked: a water-front address. The six-bedroom house has a dock with 100 feet of access to the bay and boasts stunning water views. The home was built in 1951 but was updated over the years, including by the singer, who built a three-bedroom addition. Shakira collaborated with architects Ben Lopez and Associates and interior decorator Renata Lessa Bastos of Trace Design Studio on the property. “Shakira’s taste is airy, bright, and warm, with a mixture of white textures, and there are touches of silver metallics—she doesn’t like gold—with complements of lavender, lilac, and fuchsia here and there for a bit of color,” Bastos told AD in 2018. “There are also traces of her Lebanese and Middle Eastern heritage infused throughout the otherwise minimalist interiors, including bone-inlaid pieces, handmade decorative mirrors, and a low-profile hookah lounge area.”
The singer put the home up for sale several times over the years, and in 2018 she put it on the market for $11.648 million, with her brother Antonio Mebarak serving as one of her real estate agents. It was listed for $15.9 million in 2021 and then taken off the market.
