MTV Unplugged

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Personnel includes: Shakira (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Tim Mitchell (guitar, mandolin, E-Bow); Fernando Ochoa, George Noriega (guitar); Ben Peeler (lap steel guitar, dobro, mandolin, bazooki); Pedro Alfonzo (violin); Albert Menedez (accordion, piano, B-3 organ, keyboards); Ricardo Suarez (bass); Brenden Buckley (drums); Ebenezer De Silva (percussion); Rita Quintero, Donna Allen (background vocals).
Recorded live on August 12, 1999.
"Ojos Asi" won the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Perforance. "Octavo Dia" won the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Performance. MTV UNPLUGGED was nominated for the 2000 Latin Grammy Award for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Album.
MTV UNPLUGGED won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.
MTV UNPLUGGED won the 2001 Billboard Latin Music Award for Latin Rock Album of the Year.
The easy thing would be to dub Shakira the "Latin American Alanis." Certainly her popularity in the world of Latin pop is equivalent to the success of Ms. Morissette, and Shakira lends a similar quavering/yodeling vocal style to her pop-rock arrangements. But the overall feel is more in line with the jangly acoustic/electric sound of Natalie Merchant.
Numerous acoustic stringed instruments are present, and while there's an expansiveness to many of the tunes, there's also an inherent earthiness. This disc documents the Colombian 21-year-old's concert for MTV's Unplugged series, so there's more of a reliance on acoustic instruments than usual, but even Shakira's preceding studio efforts betray the kind of fealty to roots that's absent in many of her contemporaries.