Carlota Ruiz

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Lena Gercke

Lena Johanna Gercke, better known as Lena Gercke (born February 29, 1988 inMarburg, Germany), is a German fashion model and television host. She was winner of the first cycle of Germany's Next Top Model.

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Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll] ( / ʃ ə ˈ k ɪər ə / , Spanish: [t͡ʃaˈkiɾa] ; born February 2, 1977), F

known mononymously as Shakira , is a Colombian singer-songwriter who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s. Born and raised in Barranquilla , Colombia, Shakira began performing in school, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll , Latin and Arabic influences with her own original twist onbelly dancing . Shakira is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English and Portuguese as well as some Italian, French, Catalan and Arabic.

After a poor commercial reception with local producers on her first two albums, and being little-known outside Colombia, Shakira decided to produce her own brand of music. In 1995 she released Pies Descalzos , which brought her great fame in Latin America and Spain, and her 1998 album Dónde Están los Ladrones? was a critical success selling over 7 million copies worldwide. In 2001, aided by the worldwide success of her first English single " Whenever, Wherever " that became the best selling single of 2002, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service , which sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Four years later, Shakira released two album projects called Fijación Oral Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation Vol. 2 . Both reinforced her success, particularly with the best selling song of the 2000s, " Hips Don't Lie ". In 1995, Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation. It is a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia. During her career, Shakira has performed at a large number of benefit concerts . Among the most famous are the Live 8 benefit concert in July 2005, the Live Earth concert, Hamburg where she headlined the show, as well as the " Clinton Global Initiative " created by former US President Bill Clinton . She was also invited to the Oval Office by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to discuss early childhood development.

She has won two Grammy Awards , eight Latin Grammy Awards , twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been Golden Globe -nominated. She is also the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, and the second most successful female Latin singer behind Gloria Estefan , having sold over 70 million albums worldwide. Her US album sales stand at 9.9 million. In the fall of 2009, Shakira released her sixth studio album She Wolf worldwide gaining a lot of critical praise for her eccentricity and writing skills. The album sold roughly 2 million copies around the world. Shakira's " Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) ", was chosen as the official song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup . The song has received generally positive critical reception, and has become a worldwide smash hit and the biggest selling World Cup song of all time. On YouTube, the English version of the music video is the most watched video of all time with over 455 million views. When she released her seventh studio album, the bilingual Sale el Sol in October 2010, she gained back her Latin following, which Shakira described as being the main goal for the album. The album has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Since 2009, Shakira's musical career suffered from a strained relationship with her label Epic Records , which resulted in lack of promotion and investment from Epic Records towards her two latter studio albums She Wolf (2009) and Sale el Sol (2010). However, Shakira is to enter a bidding war from labels such as Warner and Def Jam Records after the release of her 2011 World Tour DVD, titled Shakira: Live from Paris .

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Sara Tommasi

Sara Tommasi (born 9 June 1981) is an Italian actress and model . She made her film debut in the 2008 comedy Ultimi della classe playing a teacher who had appeared in a "sexy" calendar shoot. Tommasi herself had appeared topless in a Max Calendar shoot in 2007. In 2010 she appeared nude in an episode of the television series Crimini .

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China supermodel Lin Chi-ling

Lin Chi-ling ( Chinese : 林志玲 ; pinyin : Lín Zhìlíng ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Lím Jî-Léng – born 29 November 1974, in Taipei , Taiwan ), is a Taiwanese model and actress . Famed for her gentle demeanor and physical beauty, Lin has been referred to as "The First Face of Taiwan" by members of the Taiwanese media, [ 2 ] and has been an official spokesperson for both China Airlines and Longines since 2006. [ 3 ] Lin's meteoric rise to fame caused Taiwanese commentators and scholars to coin the phrase "The Lin Chi-Ling Phenomenon"

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Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart

Sylvie Françoise van der Vaart (née Meis; born 13 April 1978), of Indo (Eurasian) descent from her father's side,is a Dutch television personality and model, and wife of footballer Rafael van der Vaart.
Meis and her husband moved to Germany when he left Ajax to play for Bundesliga football club Hamburger SV. After her husband's 2008 transfer to Real Madrid, the van der Vaarts moved to Spain. Since 2008, she has been a judge on Das Supertalent, the German version of Simon Cowell's Got Talent series. She is currently taking part in the third season of the German equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, called Let's Dance. On 17 April 2010, van der Vaart replaced the usual Deutschland sucht den Superstar judge Nina Eichinger for the final of the 7th season, after the latter was stuck in Los Angeles following flight restrictions as a result of the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull. In March 2011 van der Vaart is going to host the show Let's Dance together with Daniel Hartwich.
Along with famous entertainers such as Johannes Heesters and Rudi Carell, van der Vaart is one of the most successful Dutch personalities active in Germany.

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Vietnam supermodel Thanh Hang

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