Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado

Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado is widely known as the mother of a celebrity, who is a singer and songwriter. She is none other than a Grammy Award-winner singer Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll aka Shakira.

Torrado was born in Columbia and she is a married woman and a good housewife. She is the mother of eight children and a grandmother of two kids.

Relationship of Nidia Carmen 

The celebrity mom Carmen got married to her husband, William Mebarak Chadid, who holds Lebanese nationality. His family moved to Columbia when he was five years. He was a journalist, health visitor, and insurance assistant. 

After he married Nidia, he started a business in jewelry and started a job as a literature teacher. Then started his next career as an author of books and his daughter Shakira's biography. Previously, he got married to Lucila Mebarak and has nine children.

Children of Nidia 

Talking about Ripoll Torrado's children, she has one biotic daughter Shika. Moreover, she has eight stepkids from her husband's ex-wife and she is a stepmom to them.

William's ex-wife was a mom of nine children, her first child died in an accident. Her eight stepchildren are Tonino, Alberto, Edward, Antonio, Robin, Moises, Patricia, and Lucy. They all are involved in their profession as road managers, lawyers, and businessmen. They all are close with Nidia and her stepsister Shika.

Physical Appearance

The celebrity's mother has light brown hair and eyes, and a round face. She is 5 feet 5 inches, (165 cm) tall, a beautiful girl, and has an 80 kg weight, (176 lbs).

Nidia Is a Mom of Global Star

Carmen Ripoll Torrado is the mother of singer, Shakira, who is also a songwriter. She was born on February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia. She is the only daughter of Nidia and William and is also known as a global star of Colombia. She is interested in music and literature when she was a child. 

She started her career in her school and wrote her first poem La rosa de cristal.  She got married to Spanish football player Gerard Pique in 2011. But previously she kept a relationship with Argentinian lawyer Antonio de la Ruta in 2000. She gave birth to two kids, Milan Piqué Mebarak in January 2013 and SashaPiqué Mebarak on 29 January 2015.   

Shakira's Career

Nidia's daughter Shakira likes to belly dance and she is also famous as a belly dancer.  She is also a popular singer of pop, rocks, and Latin and is also involved in Columbia, Epic, and RCA.

She has worked in many music fields and albums such as Waka Waka,  Pies Descaizos, She-Wolf, Laundry Service, Live from Paris, Sale el Sol, El Dorado, Shakira, Oral Fixation Vol. 2. Similarly, MTV Unplugged, Peligro, The Remixes, Knock on My Door, The Pepsi EP, and Grandes Exitos are also her songs albums.

Social Media

Shakira's mom is not active on social media platforms, but she is active on social networks. She has an Instagram account that is @shakira. with 72.2m followers and 1927 posts. 

Net Worth

Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado is not involved in any profession nowadays, so she does not share her net worth. She is not a famous celebrity, but only famous for mom of singer Shakira.

On the other hand, her daughter has a wonderful net worth of $300 million net worth as of 2022. 

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