Shakira is a fan of Coldplay.
The 'Can't Remember To Forget You' singer, who has been inspired by stars of the past, including Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, also loves listening to Coldplay, in particular their hit 'In My Place'.
Talking about the band's frontman, she said: "Chris Martin has one of my favorite male voices of all time - so emotive and incredibly honest."
Discussing her love of Billie, she also said: "Billie Holiday has one of the most timeless voices out there and is always something that puts me in a tranquil mood.
"I think although the lyrics are probably meant in a romantic context, for me there are some that make sense coming from a mother to her child as well - the idea of surrendering all of oneself to a love bigger than the individual.
"Ella Fitzgerald is another classic voice that has a soothing quality. Perfect to listen to at the end of a long day."
Meanwhile, when she's not downloading music old and new, she is on her mobile phone recording voice memos and playing around with ideas for future records.
She said: "This is one [app] I use in the studio a lot, to help me capture melodies, create references for arrangements, and work remotely with producers or musicians so they can hear the same thing I'm hearing."
To download Shakira's music visit itunes.com/shakira.

Rita Ora wowed an intimate crowd at a secret gig in London on Tuesday night (13.05.14).
The 23-year-old pop star performed a short set of hits from her first album 'Ora' for competition winners at Mode in west London and latest single 'I Will Never Let You Down'.
During her rendition of 'How We Do (Party)' Rita's band played Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' as the singer jumped up and down on stage prompting her fans to do the same.
Rita joking told off her fans for not telling her she had bright rouge lipstick on her teeth and face.
Before fetching a tissue to clear up her make-up mishap, she said: "Oh guys, has it been on my face the whole time? Why didn't you tell me!"
Before playing her last song 'I Will Never Let You Down', Rita thanked fans for their support and told the noisy crowd they all had "loud mouths" like her.
As the concert came to an end purple ticker tape exploded from the ceiling covering the crowd.
Before leaving the stage Rita - who is dating Calvin Harris - posed for several selfies with her fans and was showered with various gifts including a T-shirt.
She later took to Twitter to praise the fans who came to watch her, writing: "Thank you for winning tickets to my secret gig BOTS! #back2westlondon #iwillneverletyoudown (sic)"
Later in the evening, the singer - who had changed from her stage outfit into a red floral print dress - headed to the Chiltern Firehouse hotel, bar and restaurant for drinks.

Kirsten Dunst was burnt by Viggo Mortensen during filming for 'The Two Faces of January'.
The 32-year-old actress plays the 'Lord of the Rings' stars' wife in the crime thriller, and she's admitted that while they were shooting for a scene in the film, she was injured so badly that she still has the scars.
Speaking at the film's press conference at London's Corinthia hotel, she revealed to BANG Showbiz: "I remember that day [of filming] because Viggo is holding my body and he's grieving and he had to have a lighter on to illuminate what was happening in the scene and he's holding my body and laying me back down and I'm being burnt.
"I didn't want to say anything though, because I didn't want to ruin the scene, I was taking one for the team!"
The 'Melancholia' star revealed that the film's director, writer and film-maker Hossein Amini, didn't originally intend on giving her the part of Mortensen's character Chester MacFarland's younger wife, but she believes she brings more credibility to the role.
She said: "At first I know he [Amini] was thinking about maybe casting someone a little younger than me, to have that innocence maybe, or the flightiness of a woman who marries rich, but really what was more interesting was creating a real dynamic between us.
"A real husband and wife, and yes she's disillusioned a bit by the money and the glamour but I think that Colette truly loves Chester, and in order to make this dynamic more interesting we needed to have a more filled out woman rather than just a girl in the film."
'The Two Faces of January' will be released in cinemas across the United Kingdom on May 16.

Britain's Prince William thanked Ralph Lauren last night (13.05.14) for funding the new breast cancer research unit at The Royal Marsden in Chelsea.
The 31-year-old royal hosted a star-studded gala at Windsor Castle in support the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity where it was revealed the 74-year-old designer will lend his support the the cause.
According to the Daily Telegraph newspaper, William apologised for Duchess Catherine's absence when they were introduced in the Grand Reception Room, and said: "I'm sorry my wife's not here, you probably would far rather you saw my wife."
Ralph replied: "Not at all."
William responded: "It's a wonderful thing you're backing, it will be another great addition to the hospital."
The Duke of Cambridge had invited a host of A-List stars including Kate Moss, Emma Watson, Cate Blanchett, Cara Delevingne and Helena Bonham Carter to the event and he highlighted Ralph's support before guests tucked into their meal.
In a speech, he said: "I am enormously grateful to Ralph Lauren for his generosity, and to all of you who so kindly support the hospital. You should know that what you do saves lives and gives hope to thousands of people."
Ralph has donated millions to cancer research in past years.
He had a benign brain tumour removed 25 years ago and lost his close friend Nina Hyde to breast cancer in 1990.

Caroline Aherne is "winning" her battle with lung cancer.
The 'Royle Family' star, who previously fought off both bladder and eye cancer, has been quietly recovering from treatment and although she faced moments of "grave" concern she is a fighter a has had a "positive outlook".
A source told The Sun newspaper: "Put it like this -- at times in the hospital there were very grave areas of concern. The chemotherapy was really intensive.
"But she's a fighter. After two weeks of recovery at home, she came on leaps and bounds. She has a positive outlook and is winning this battle."
Caroline, 50, went public with her secret illness in order to help raise £3.4 million to improve care for cancer patients in Manchester, where she received great care and support from the nurses who were "brilliant" during her treatment.
The 'Mrs Merton' star has now backed the Macmillan Cancer Improvement Partnership, which will seek to bring together doctors, hospitals, patients and the council to improve cancer care in that area.
The source explained: "Caroline wanted to keep the illness under wraps while undergoing treatment.
"She didn't lose any weight during chemo but she did lose all her hair.
"The one group of people she really wants to thank are the Macmillan nurses, who were brilliant throughout. Over the next few months she faces further chest X-rays and blood tests. She will be in remission for five years."
The actress-and-writer and her brother, Patrick, were both born with retinal cancer, leaving her near-blind in one eye and her brother will undergo checks too.
The source confirmed: "This cancer of the lung is not caused by smoking -- it's genetic. It affects only about one per cent of the population and her brother Patrick will have to get checked out as well."

Ellie Goulding is dating a fitness instructor.
The 'Burn' hitmaker has reportedly been seeing fitness guru Sam Karl, a teacher at Barry's Bootcamp in Miami Beach.
The New York Post's Page Six claims the British singer was spotted enjoying a date with Sam on a luxury yacht owned by none other than Justin Bieber last week.
A spokesperson for Ellie - who previously dated electronic musician Skrillex and 'War Horse' actor Jeremy Irvine - has yet to comment.
The 27-year-old star has been single since her brief romance with McBusted star Dougie Poynter ended earlier this year.
Ellie was determined to stay solo after realising she was putting men before everything else in her life, but her resolution appears to have waned.
She previously said: "I [used to] put men on a pedestal. I decided to remedy that, and that's why I'm single now.
"They'd be everything [but] I've realised I don't need a guy. I've got amazing, awesome, stupid friends in the best way possible."

Solange Knowles was allegedly "drunk" when she attacked Jay Z in an elevator.
The 29-year-old star, who is the younger sister of Jay's superstar wife Beyonce, had been dealing with problems in both her career and personal life in the time leading up to her outburst in a lift at the Standard Hotel in New York on May 5.
A source told the New York Post newspaper: "Clearly she was on something at the party, she was drunk and out of it. She got in the elevator with Jay and Bey. He had made a comment that she didn't like, and she just snapped."
Another onlooker added: "She was the girl who drank too much and was behaving badly at the party."
Solange has reportedly been dealing with various issues of late, including her complicated music career.
It's thought the star was either dropped by or left Jay's Roc Nation record label - which managed her DJing career - last year, and she has since launched her own company, Saint Records, which has been a strain on her.
An insider explained: "She used to be on [Jay Z's] label, but now she isn't. And she moved to New Orleans from Brooklyn with her son. Solange still spends a lot of time in New York, but she is further away from her family, which has created some issues."
Shocking footage emerged earlier this week of Solange kicking and slapping Jay, 44, inside an elevator following a Met Gala after party. Beyonce was also in the lift but wasn't involved in the affray.

Ed Sheeran doesn't sing for his new girlfriend because he thinks it would be "really creepy and weird".
The 23-year-old singer-songwriter has a new woman in his life, and although he's reluctant to reveal her identity he's admitted she is "nice" and "really cool", but confessed he doesn't like to sing for her.
Speaking to Us Weekly, he said: "[I don't sing to her in private] because that's really creepy and weird.
"If someone did that to you, like legitimately, if someone sat you down like, 'hey baby, I'll come play some...' You'd be a bit awkward right?"
While the 'Sing' hitmaker refuses to name his new beau, he's revealed that she works in the food industry and as she's Greek she's great at cooking up "anything Greek".
He said: "[She] works for a food company. Well not a food company, she works for a chef."
The flame-haired star has already introduced his new girlfriend to good pal Taylor Swift, as the threesome dined at a London restaurant together, and he admitted she approves, saying "she likes her."
Meanwhile, Ed is looking to set the 'I Knew You Were Trouble' singer, 24, up with Orlando Bloom, as when asked by the magazine who he'd like to see her dating he named the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star, who split from wife Miranda Kerr last year.

Miley Cyrus has apologised for her rant at London's G-A-Y club at the weekend.
The 21-year-old singer, who dedicated her hit 'Wrecking Ball' to "all the motherf***ers that broke my heart", telling the crowd one particular boy could "suck my fat d**k", also insisted the foul-mouthed tirade wasn't directed at ex-fiance Liam Hemsworth.
She took to Twitter yesterday (13.05.14) to clear the air and claimed she was just trying to "rile up" the crowd and was "too turnttttt up."
Miley posted: "Just FYI what I said the other night at G.A.Y had nothing to do with Liam. I was just tryin to rile up the boys.
"I don't usually respond to tabloidy stuff but this isn't something I want being spread around. It sounded hateful but not what I meant.
"I never want hateful things being said about those I care about... I was just tooooo turnttttt up. (sic)"
The controversial pop star, who was also seen playing with a giant blow-up penis at the gig, split from 'Hunger Games' star Liam in September last year after four years together and has since been romantically linked to actor Kellan Lutz and rapper Mike Will Made It, who worked on her latest album 'Bangerz'.
After clearing things up on Twitter, Miley then went on to celebrate her mother Tish's 54th birthday and posted a series of photographs of the two of them relaxing and sipping martinis in Glasgow, Scotland, and wearing face paint and animal masks.

Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Blood On Snow' has landed a scribe.
The 39-year-old actor and his Appian Way production company with partner Jennifer Davisson Killoran are set to be working on the film with Kevin McCormick's Langley Park banner for which 'Buried' scribe Chris Sparling will write a screenplay, reports Deadline.com.
The 'Wolf of Wall Street' hunk may also have a role on screen in the new project which is based on Jo Nesbo's book.
While Norwegian author Nesbo and Niclas Salomonsson will executive produce.
The story follows a hit man who is forced to go into hiding after he fails on a job and finds himself on the run with his intended target, who also happens to be his boss' wife.
This comes after reports that DiCaprio has reportedly "burned" himself out and has been told to slow down by his friends as they fear his hectic work schedule is having a negative effect on his health and personal life.
A source said: "Leo has been working like a demon over the past three years - and it's now starting to come back and haunt him.
"He's pretty burned out at the moment and suffering from insomnia from pushing himself so hard.
"Everybody is begging Leo to slow down but he's just very focused on making a lot of money right now -- to the exclusion of almost everything else."

Conchita Wurst has become a symbol of change for drag queens in London.
The fabulous bearded singer, who earned a victory for Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest last weekend, is being heralded as a beacon of hope for equality and tolerance amongst the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community after defeating the odds to become the first drag queen to ever win the competition.
Lady Lloyd, one of the stars of new reality show 'Drag Queens of London', exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "It was so emotional when she won, we were all screaming and jumping up and down. I host a Eurovision party every year and the bar was absolutely packed. It was really moving. She's number one in Russia now, how great is that? It's sort of a f**k you."
The flamboyant star - who is a member of the Buffalo Girls and models for Vivienne Westwood - was shocked to hear the leader of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party had branded Conchita's win "the end of Europe" and thinks the public is more open minded than some "backwards" world leaders.
Lady Lloyd explained: "It's going to make a difference because it's exposure. Everything helps. There's the same amount of gay people in Russia as everywhere else. It's just so backwards that some man thinks that there's not.
"There's always going to be drag, it's the oldest profession. Shakespeare was all about drag! It's got its place in history.
"Everything's moving ahead as it should, with gay marriage etc. It's a slow process, changing the world one eyelash at a time!"
However, the drag queen doesn't think it was fair for people to take their anger about Russia's political stance and "anti-gay" laws out on the country's act by booing them.
She added: "I didn't boo them, a lot of people did in the bar. But they're two sweet little girls, they didn't deserve it. But at the same time, they're choosing to represent their country."
Brand new episodes of 'Drag Queens of London' air Tuesdays at 10pm on London Live - Freeview 8, YouView 8, Sky 117 and Virgin 159.

Ricky Wilson doesn't know what the reason would be for him to return to 'The Voice'.
The Kaiser Chiefs singer was one of the four coaches on the last series of the BBC One talent show and proved to be very popular among viewers.
Although he enjoyed his time on the programme, Ricky has touring commitments with his band following the success of their fifth studio album 'Education, Education, Education & War' and he admits one of the motivations for him joining the line-up was to spread the word about his new record, something he no longer needs to do.
Speaking at The 2014 Radio Academy Awards in London, he revealed: "I loved doing 'The Voice', although I didn't enjoy it at the time. It was really hard work but at the same time one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. If you asked me the day before it ended (if I'd come back), I'd be like I don't know, but the day after I kind of missed it a little bit. I don't know if I'll be back at the moment because the first time I did it I had a really strong reason to do it and that was the pride I had in the record. If I did it again, and it comes around in October, November time, I don't know what the reason would be to do it other than that I enjoy it. But that might be the best reason of all. I'll wait to be asked."
Although Ricky has proven himself as a talent show judge on 'The Voice' he isn't sure if he'd want to make the switch to 'The X Factor' and doesn't think he'd be allowed to anyway.
When quizzed on what he'd do if Simon Cowell asked him to join his ITV series, the 36-year-old rocker said: "Contractually I wouldn't be allowed to ... I don't know because I was terrified about doing 'The Voice', so I'd be terrified about doing 'X Factor'. But these opportunities, when they come along now, I take a lot more seriously than I used to."
Kylie Minogue has already announced she won't be returning to 'The Voice' next year, while it is rumoured that will.i.am is leaving after three series potentially leaving Sir Tom Jones as the only remaining original judge.