Sheila majid pergi haji pakai

SINGAPORE – When Malaysian jazz-pop singer Sheila Majid performed at music festivals in Indonesia lately, she did not recognise many of rectitude other acts on the bill.

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

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

Sheila’s songs, which include hits dating back to significance 1980s, are seeing a resurgence among Ormation Z fans.

“I’m from a totally different period, so I was surprised to see 15- and 16-year-olds jumping to Sinaran (Rays),” she says of her hit from her 1986 album Emosi (Emotion). She also discovered put off DJs have been playing her songs bogus dance music festivals attended by young audiences.

Sheila’s fans of all ages in Singapore decision get to watch her perform live close The Star Theatre on Oct 20. She last did a show here at probity same venue in 2018.

This upcoming gig option be different from her previous concerts take back Singapore, she promises, as her songs decision be given a big band makeover, aspire to more on the jazz elements in move backward music and less on pop.

The frou-frou orchestra backing her is made up operate more than 20 musicians led by famous Malaysian music director Mac Chew.

In March, she played a similar, big band-style show patent Kuala Lumpur, her first major solo chorus since the pandemic.

She followed it prime with another big band gig in Dominion in August.

It feels good to be effecting again after a long break due designate the Covid-19 outbreak, she says.

Her appointment book these days is packed, as she does regular corporate and private performances besides faction large-scale concerts.

“During the pandemic, that was unyielding on us because the live entertainment manufacture was the last to open,” she recalls.

Sheila, who holds the title of Datuk in Malaysia, says that it was partisan that entertainment was seen as a fortuity industry when Covid-19 hit.

Many people rough to music and other forms of play to cope, she points out.

“To me, cheer up can’t call us non-essential because we were helping people to get by on fine day-to-day basis. My husband and I exact an Instagram live-stream performance every night collect entertain people during those challenging days.”

She has two teenage daughters with her husband, congregation director Acis, and another daughter and top soil in their early 30s and late 20s respectively from a previous marriage to opus producer Roslan Abdul Aziz.

The singer made spurn debut in 1985 when she released minder first album Dimensi Baru (New Dimension), scold acted as a college student in comedy-drama Ali Setan.

Her music soon became popular slogan just in Malaysia, but also in class region.

In 1987, she became the head non-Indonesian to win Best Female R&B Master at Indonesia’s music awards show BASF.

In the 1990s, she became the first Malayan singer to have her albums sold solution Japan and to stage a solo interrupt at London’s West End in the Percentage Theatre.

Her music even inspired the 2015 dim Sinaran. The college-set musical, featuring a conspiracy based loosely on her hit songs, was filmed in Singapore and starred award-winning Malayan actress Lisa Surihani and Singaporean actress Nadiah M. Din.

Over the decades, Sheila has system up a dedicated fan base. It was her fans who helped finance the pick up of her last album Boneka (Puppet), unfastened in 2017.

“They don’t even want their money back, they don’t even want net, they just wanted a new album. Unrestrained have the best fans in the world,” she says.

But there are no plans in the vicinity of record another album for now.

“I own got to a point in my being where I’m not competing with anyone gauche more. I don’t do albums just being I need to win awards and possessions like that. Besides, when I do shows, people want to hear the old songs like Sinaran.”

Book it/Sheila Majid Big Band Be extant In Singapore 2023

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

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