Laundry Service

by Shakira

Product Description:

Personnel includes: Shakira (vocals, harmonica); Bryan Ray, Tim Pierce (guitar); Hector Del Curto, David Alsina (bandoneon); Ed Calle (tenor & baritone saxophone); Jim Hacker (trumpet, piccolo trumpet); Tony Concepcion (trumpet); Dana Teboe (trombone, bass trombone); Lester Mendez (Hammond organ, keyboards); Pablo Aslan (acoustic bass); Paul Bushnell (bass); Abraham Laboriel, Jr. (drums); Richard Bravo, Archie Pena (percussion); Rita Quintero, Brendan Buckley, George Noriega (background vocals).

"Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango)" was nominated for the 2003 Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.

Though she was already a star in the Latin pop world, Shakira broke through to the international mainstream in 1998 with DONDE ESTAN LOS LADRONES, followed up by a live UNPLUGGED album. Thus, her next studio effort, 2001's LAUNDRY SERVICE, played a pivotal role in the budding pop diva's career. Not one to disappoint, Shakira made LAUNDRY SERVICE a career milestone. As such, the album earned a 2002 reissue where it was accompanied by a bonus CD with a video and a live track, and also featured a remix of the smash "Whenever, Wherever" as well as a couple of alternate versions of other tracks from the album. In itself, LAUNDRY SERVICE as Shakira's countless fans have come to know and love it, is a brash, personality-filled mixture of Latin pop with distinctly Alanis-like angry-young-woman rock, along with a smattering of R&B and hip-hop production moves thrown in. It all adds up to perhaps the definitive-to-date release from this fetching young star.