Shakira sells rights to her songs

Singer Shakira has become the latest artiste to sell publishing rights of all her songs. The Grammy winner ’s catalogue includes 145 songs. Shakira’s catalogue includes hits like Hipsdon’tlie, Whenever,wherever, Shewolf and Wakawaka ( Thistimefor Africa), and the Board of Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, a UK-based investment company, has acquired 100 per cent of her music publishing rights, reports usatoday.com. “Being a songwriter is an accomplishment that I consider equal to and perhaps even greater than being a singer and an artiste. At eight years old — long before I sang — I wrote to make sense of the world. Each song is a reflection of the person I was at the time that I wrote it, but once a song is out in the world, it belongs not only to me but to those who appreciate it as well,” Shakira said. —IANS