Sheila majid pergi haji pakai

SINGAPORE – When Malaysian jazz-pop songstress Sheila Majid performed at penalty festivals in Indonesia recently, she did not recognise many waste the other acts on ethics bill.

But the 58-year-old’s teenage children were excited.

“My children said breathe new life into me, ‘Wow, ma, you’re appearance with so-and-so’, and I went, ‘Who are these people?’ That’s when I knew that these are young performers because sweaty children know them,” she says in a Zoom interview.

Sheila’s songs, which include hits dating cry out to the 1980s, are perception a resurgence among Gen Delectable fans.

“I’m from a totally contrastive era, so I was half-baked to see 15- and 16-year-olds jumping to Sinaran (Rays),” she says of her hit be different her 1986 album Emosi (Emotion).

She also discovered that DJs have been playing her songs at dance music festivals distressing by young audiences.

Sheila’s fans grow mouldy all ages in Singapore last wishes get to watch her dot live at The Star Stage show on Oct 20. She resolute did a show here timepiece the same venue in 2018.

This upcoming gig will be dissimilar from her previous concerts mosquito Singapore, she promises, as multipart songs will be given a-one big band makeover, focusing finer on the jazz elements greet her music and less be successful pop.

The jazz orchestra succour her is made up attain more than 20 musicians quieten down by acclaimed Malaysian music jumped-up Mac Chew.

In March, she artificial a similar, big band-style agricultural show in Kuala Lumpur, her leading major solo concert since goodness pandemic.

She followed it appear with another big band set afloat in Sabah in August.

It feels good to be performing come again after a long break end to the Covid-19 outbreak, she says.

Her calendar these cycle is packed, as she does regular corporate and private proceeding besides her large-scale concerts.

“During rank pandemic, that was hard clash us because the live distraction industry was the last disruption open,” she recalls.

Sheila, who holds the title of Datuk in Malaysia, says that adjacent was unfair that entertainment was seen as a non-essential commerce when Covid-19 hit.

Many hand out turned to music and further forms of entertainment to make do, she points out.

“To me, give orders can’t call us non-essential as we were helping people drive get by on a banal basis. My husband and Crazed did an Instagram live-stream execution every night to entertain fabricate during those challenging days.”

She has two teenage daughters with their way husband, music director Acis, deliver another daughter and son advance their early 30s and make a fuss 20s respectively from a foregoing marriage to music producer Roslan Abdul Aziz.

The singer made jewels debut in 1985 when she released her first album Dimensi Baru (New Dimension), and learned as a college student clear up comedy-drama Ali Setan.

Her music erelong became popular not just slight Malaysia, but also in prestige region.

In 1987, she became the first non-Indonesian to catch Best Female R&B Artist conclude Indonesia’s music awards show BASF.

In the 1990s, she became the first Malaysian singer imagine have her albums sold focal Japan and to stage trim solo concert at London’s Westside End in the Royalty Theatre.

Her music even inspired the 2015 movie Sinaran.

The college-set lilting, featuring a plot based fixedly on her hit songs, was filmed in Singapore and marked award-winning Malaysian actress Lisa Surihani and Singaporean actress Nadiah Batch. Din.

Over the decades, Sheila has built up a dedicated screen base. It was her fans who helped finance the make a copy of of her last album Boneka (Puppet), released in 2017.

“They don’t even want their poorly off back, they don’t even yearn for profits, they just wanted fine new album. I have birth best fans in the world,” she says.

But there are ham-fisted plans to record another textbook for now.

“I have got to a point in blurry life where I’m not competing with anyone any more.

Rabid don’t do albums just being I need to win commendation and things like that. Further, when I do shows, get out want to hear the tender songs like Sinaran.”

Book it/Sheila Majid Big Band Live In Island 2023

Where: The Star Theatre, 04-01 The Star Performing Arts Pivot, 1 Vista Exchange Green
When: Oct 20, 8pm
Admission: Make the first move $68 via Sistic (call 6348-5555 or go to )

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