Exactly three decades ago, in October 1995, Shakira unveiled her third studio album, the career-defining “Pies Descalzos.” The collection of Spanish-language songs became a daring introduction to an artist intent on reshaping the Latin music landscape with a blend of pop and rock and with the pulse of Latin America and beyond, weaving in echoes of Afro beats, Arabic melodies and folk traditions that hinted at the global storyteller she was destined to become.

A decade later, she once again upended expectations with her “Fijación Oral” two-part project that blurred languages. Following the global triumph of her 2001 English-language debut, “Laundry Service,” she returned with something to prove, releasing “Fijación Oral, Vol. 1” in Spanish and its mirror image, “Oral Fixation, Vol. 2,”

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