In March 1996, Shakira went on to her first international tour named simply the Tour Pies Descalzos.

The tour consisted of 20 shows and ended in 1997. Also in

that year, Shakira received three Billboard Latin Music Awards for Album of the Year for Pies Descalzos, Video of the Year for "Estoy Aqui" and Best New Artist.
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Pies Descalzos later sold over 5 million copies,[33][34] prompting the release of a remix album, simply titled The Remixes. The Remixes also

included Portuguese versions of some of her well known songs, which were recorded as a result of her success in the Brazilian market, where Pies
Descalzos sold nearly one million copies.[24]

Her fourth studio album, Dnde Estn los Ladrones?, produced entirely by Shakira herself and Emilio Estefan, Jr. as the executive producer, was released in
September 1998. The album, inspired by an incident in an airport in which a suitcase full of her written lyrics was stolen, became a bigger hit than Pies Descalzos.
The album has reached a peak position of number 131 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and held the top spot on the U.S. Latin Albums chart for 11 weeks. It has since
sold over seven million copies worldwide[35][36][clarification needed] and 1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone, making it one of the best selling Spanish albums in the U.S. Eight
singles were taken from the album including "Ciega, Sordomuda", "Moscas En La Casa", "No Creo" which became her first single to chart on the
U.S. Billboard Hot 100, "Inevitable", "T", "Si Te Vas", "Octavo da", and the "Ojos As". The latter two songs won Shakira one Latin Grammy each with six of the
eight singles reaching the top 40 on the U.S. Latin chart.