Posted by Adam

Monday November 30, 2009

SINGER Shakira insists she didn’t inherit her business acumen from her parents.

The Hips Don’t Lie hitmaker says she thought her mom and dad were “the most incompetent business people in the world” when her father, a jeweler, went bankrupt and had to sell most of the family possessions when she was a child.

“I couldn’t believe my parents!” she said. “I thought they were the most incompetent business people in the world! And I was so upset.

“My dad and my mom took me to the park that day, where all the kids who were orphans are sniffing glue to deal with the tragedy of their own lives and hunger and the solitude of their lives.

“Little kids, like my age, sniffing glue and barefoot. They just wanted to show me another reality that was much worse than mine.  Those images of those kids left a huge impression.”

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