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Latin pop star Shakira, British rock musician Sting and English trip hop group Portishead are to play in Hungary this year, organisers said on Tuesday.

Twice Grammy award-winning and seven times Latin Grammy award-winning singer Shakira will bring her The Sun Comes Out World Tour to Budapest’s Papp Laszlo Sport Arena on May 5, Live Nation told MTI. The 34-year-old star has sold some 60 million albums worldwide, making her the highest selling Colombian artist of all time. She has previously played in Budapest in March 2007.

Sting, who has received sixteen Grammy awards for his work, will return with his Symphonicities show which he already presented in Budapest, in November 2010. Sting will play hos most famous songs accompanied by a symphonic orchestra at the Papp Laszlo sport arena on June 30, Live Nation said.

The 60-year-old singer will play in Hungary for the seventh time, the first appearance being at the 1988 Human Rights Now! world tour held under the banner of Amnesty International.

This year’s lakeside Balaton Sound festival, held in Zamardi between July 7 and 10, will feature such international acts as Portishead from Bristol, the Washington D.C.-based lounge and downtempo group Thievery Corporation and British electronic group Underworld. Dutch trance superstars Tiesto and Armin van Buuren will be among the international DJs to spin disks at the Balaton Sound festival.

via Shakira, Sting, Portishead pop headliners in Hungary in ’11 – Caboodle.hu.