Shakira: Pies Descalzos (Yellow With Red Swirl) [EPIC/LEGACY]

Why you'll love it

The 30th Anniversary pressing brings Pies Descalzos back on yellow with red swirl marble vinyl. It went Diamond in Colombia and Platinum in the U.S., and its six singles included the Latin Pop No. 1 "Se Quiere, Se Mata."

This edition

• 30th Anniversary Edition
• Single LP on yellow with red swirl marble vinyl
• The original 11-song album

About the album

Before the hips didn't lie, there was a teenager from Colombia with a guitar, a head full of songs and a budget of about $100,000. Pies Descalzos was Shakira's third album but, in every way that counts, her first: the record that followed two slow sellers and turned her into a star across Latin America almost overnight. She wrote it and co-produced it with Luis Fernando Ochoa, who co-wrote all eleven songs, and Sony Music Colombia put it out in October 1995.

It's a pop-rock record at heart, jangling guitars and big choruses with Latin rhythms underneath, and the hits just kept coming: "Estoy Aquí," "Antología," "Un Poco de Amor" and the title track. By May 1997 it had sold more than two million copies across Latin America, it picked up two Billboard Latin Music Awards, and Billboard later named it one of the essential Latin albums of the past 50 years. Thirty years on, it's the best place to hear where the whole Shakira story started, and it still rocks harder than plenty of people expect. Play "Estoy Aquí" loud and try not to sing along.

"Passion, conviction, and honesty."
Billboard

On Epic/Legacy, a 30th anniversary reissue of the 1995 album.