Pop star Shakira is to be honoured with a 5m high five-tonne statue set to tower over her home town, Barranquilla.
German sculptor Dieter Patt has donated the work, in steel, which
will be erected in a square in the Colombian city.
The steel version of the Grammy winning rocker and composer was due to arrive by sea tomorrow.
Shakira, a multilingual Lebanese-Colombian songwriter who
reportedly has an IQ of 140, took home the Grammy for best Latin
alternative rock album last month, for "Oral Fixation number 1".
