Dato' Sheila Majid (Singer)
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| Dato' Sheila Majid known for her Jazz singing |
About
Popular for her ‘Merilis’ single “Antara Anyer dan Jakarta” (1980), she is one and only Dato’ Sheila Majid the ‘Queen of
Jazz”. Malaysia’s foremost singing sensation, SHEILA MAJID has continued to
hold her rank presence in regional music scene for the last eighteen years.
Early Life
She is the youngest among 8
siblings. She swent to Goodshepherd Kindergarten, Methodist Girls Primary
School and Methodist Secondaray School that was in Kuala Lumpur. At first she was
married to Roslan Aziz is also a famous musician. They are blessed with two
children, Wan Nur Khaleda and Megat Abdul Majid Aziz and remarried with Hashridz
Murshim Hassim or known as Acis former keyboard player for Gersang Band after
two years being together. They had their third and fourth child together, Khadeja
Zaireen Murshim dan Khalefa Laila Murshim.
When growing up, music are part of her
life and her family. She starts singing as a hobby. She starts to learn playing
piano while she was at the age of 8. She shines with her talents when she sang
in an event of her friend when she was 17. At that time her talent start to attract
one of the producer with her melodic voice and instantly she was invited for an
audition. She was auditioned by Roslan Aziz and was given a contract in 1982.
Achievement
Dato’ Sheila album manage to break
in Indonesia market and won the BASF Awards 1987 for the Best Female R&B
artist on a song title ‘Emosi’.Dato’ Sheila’s long list of accomplishments as
an artist and she continued to inspire young Malaysians to strive forward in
their contribution to the Malaysian music industry when she was invited to
performs in Japan where she already performs there in the Tokyo Music Festival
where all of the Japanese were mesmerize with her unique voice. In 1996, she
had won Kembara award in AIM3 and 1997 (AIM4) she for best vocal performance along
with best Pop Album.
On a month of July 2000, she had become the first local
artiste that have performed at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas. All of the ticket
were sold out in just two days. November 2001, she been invite to represent
Malaysia in Diva concert S.E.A in Jakarta and the next year October 2003, she
also been invited to hold a live concert by TransTV in Malaysia. The programme
twas in 2 hours tittles ‘Konsert Perjalanan Seni Sheila Majid’. In 2004, her
and her husband, Acis are working together to start their own practice studio
known as Akarkarya in Damansara Uptown, Petaling Jaya.
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