Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life.
We can work together across countries and cultures like never before through the Internet and social media. Everyone can make a difference, whether it is by building a school, sponsoring a child’s education, volunteering at their local school, or working to hold leaders accountable for their promises.
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.
I love to shake my hips, my hair, and my boobs. It’s all about having fun and sharing your spirit with other people.
You’re a song written by the hands of God.
It doesn’t matter if you are a musician, a business leader, a president or a student. We all have a responsibility to give back.
I know what it’s like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.
I’m not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.
I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
The goal of my philanthropic work has always been to make sure that every child has a chance to live up to his or her potential. That means our work won’t be done until every child has access to quality education from early childhood to adulthood.
We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they’re subject to by teachers and their own parents.
I thank God that I’m a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
You have to be very strong and tough-minded if you want to survive.
The worst mistake of a woman is to go to the kitchen, because then she never gets out of there.
I prefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.
I think it’s my energy and love of life that has been the real key to my fame and success.
I’m more afraid of marriage than death.
I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education’s power to transform lives.
Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.
