HCA Music Website - March: Women in Music

Women Composers Who Run the World

Women's History Month in Music

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a two-time Grammy Award-winning and 10 Latin Grammy Award-winning Colombian-Lebanese singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, dancer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and occasional actress, first season of the coach The Voice.

Shakira is also a philanthropist. She has created the NGO's Pies Descalzos Foundation in Colombia, and the Barefoot Foundation in the US, to help children world-wide.

She is also known for having made a song named "Timor" based on fighting in East Timor between gangs (groups of criminals with guns), security forces (small personal armies), and the government.

The first single from Shakira's tenth album was released in January 2014. Shakira was released on 21 March 2014.

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Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20, 1988, in St. Michael parish, Barbados. As a child she listened to Caribbean music, such as reggae, as well as American hip-hop and R&B. She especially enjoyed singing and won a high-school talent show with a rendition of a Mariah Carey song. About the same time, she started a girl group with two friends, and in 2004 she attracted the attention of Evan Rogers, an American record producer. He helped her record a demo that led to an audition with the rapper Jay-Z. At the time Jay-Z headed the Def Jam record label, and he soon signed the budding vocalist. For her professional career, Fenty adopted her middle name, Rihanna.

Beyoncé is an American singer-songwriter and actress known around the world. She first became famous in the 1990s as the lead singer of a popular band called Destiny’s Child. She later left to start her own career.

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles was born on September 4, 1981, in Houston, Texas. She formed an all-girls band with childhood friends when she was nine. The band was called Girl’s Tyme. Beyoncé soon became the lead singer as some members left the band and others joined.

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Great Women in Music from the Past

As the "Godmother of Rock and Roll," Sister Rosetta Tharp pioneered the electric guitar in the 1930s and 1940s. Encourage your new tissue box guitarist to mimic her style in "PBS American Masters: Sister Rosetta Tharpe."

Innovative left-handed player Elizabeth Cotten learned to play music by turning her right-handed brother's banjo upside down and went on to be an acclaimed folk and blues musician.

Mexican indie-pop singer and composer Carla Morrison has won two Latin Grammys for her album, "Déjenme Llorar," which has also been certified Gold in Mexico. Watch her lead the band as she performs "Mi Secreto" in this video from NPR's World Cafe. Ask your children what they think leading a band is like and how they would feel. Talk together about the traits of a bandleader.

Inspired by American pop and traditional Latin American music, Ximena Sariñana received critical acclaim and a Grammy nomination for her debut album, Mediocre. Watch her perform her song "Lo Bailado" and talk about what inspires you when you create art together.

Musical icon and activist Melissa Ethridge has been awarded Grammy and Academy Awards for her work. Watch her play live at L.A.'s historic Orpheum Theatre in the PBS concert special "Melissa Etheridge: This is M.E. Live in LA" and talk about her career with Gwen Ifill.