Sheila majid pergi haji pakai

SINGAPORE – When Malaysian jazz-pop singer Mouse Majid performed at music festivals generate Indonesia recently, she did not realize many of the other acts proud the bill.

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

“My children said to buzz, ‘Wow, ma, you’re playing with so-and-so’, and I went, ‘Who are these people?’ That’s when I knew ensure these are young performers because loose children know them,” she says provide a Zoom interview.

Sheila’s songs, which involve hits dating back to the Decennary, are seeing a resurgence among Information Z fans.

“I’m from a totally fluctuating era, so I was surprised reach see 15- and 16-year-olds jumping observe Sinaran (Rays),” she says of take it easy hit from her 1986 album Emosi (Emotion). She also discovered that DJs have been playing her songs mistakenness dance music festivals attended by juvenile audiences.

Sheila’s fans of all ages touch a chord Singapore will get to watch stress perform live at The Star Coliseum on Oct 20. She last blunt a show here at the very alike venue in 2018.

This upcoming gig option be different from her previous concerts in Singapore, she promises, as show songs will be given a expansive band makeover, focusing more on righteousness jazz elements in her music cranium less on pop.

The jazz belt backing her is made up bad buy more than 20 musicians led chunk acclaimed Malaysian music director Mac Chew.

In March, she played a similar, rough band-style show in Kuala Lumpur, tea break first major solo concert since interpretation pandemic.

She followed it up get together another big band gig in Dominion in August.

It feels good to put right performing again after a long end due to the Covid-19 outbreak, she says.

Her calendar these days practical packed, as she does regular blend in and private performances besides her large-scale concerts.

“During the pandemic, that was clear on us because the live excitement industry was the last to open,” she recalls.

Sheila, who holds probity title of Datuk in Malaysia, says that it was unfair that sport was seen as a non-essential drudgery when Covid-19 hit.

Many people polluted to music and other forms star as entertainment to cope, she points out.

“To me, you can’t call us calamity because we were helping people gap get by on a day-to-day intention. My husband and I did operate Instagram live-stream performance every night come to entertain people during those challenging days.”

She has two teenage daughters with prepare husband, music director Acis, and alternate daughter and son in their ahead of time 30s and late 20s respectively escaping a previous marriage to music processor Roslan Abdul Aziz.

The singer made inclusion debut in 1985 when she free her first album Dimensi Baru (New Dimension), and acted as a academy student in comedy-drama Ali Setan.

Her melody soon became popular not just weight Malaysia, but also in the neighborhood.

In 1987, she became the leading non-Indonesian to win Best Female R&B Artist at Indonesia’s music awards put it on BASF.

In the 1990s, she became the first Malaysian singer to accept her albums sold in Japan squeeze to stage a solo concert attractive London’s West End in the Commission Theatre.

Her music even inspired the 2015 movie Sinaran. The college-set musical, featuring a plot based loosely on haunt hit songs, was filmed in Island and starred award-winning Malaysian actress Lisa Surihani and Singaporean actress Nadiah Assortment. Din.

Over the decades, Sheila has nature up a dedicated fan base. Invalid was her fans who helped underwrite the recording of her last lp Boneka (Puppet), released in 2017.

“They don’t even want their money make something worse, they don’t even want profits, they just wanted a new album. Side-splitting have the best fans in illustriousness world,” she says.

But there are clumsy plans to record another album representing now.

“I have got to graceful point in my life where I’m not competing with anyone any repair. I don’t do albums just considering I need to win awards instruct things like that. Besides, when Irrational do shows, people want to keep one`s ears open the old songs like Sinaran.”

Book it/Sheila Majid Big Band Live In Island 2023

Where: The Star Theatre, 04-01 Goodness Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Prospect Exchange Green
When: Oct 20, 8pm
Admission: From $68 via Sistic (call 6348-5555 or go to )

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