Popular female vocalist in Maldives, Unoosha had her first International show in Colombo last week at the Ceylon Continental Hotel. The concert was held at the Sapphire Ballroom amidst Maldivians and Sri Lankans who really enjoyed her performance.
Popular Sri Lankan rap artiste Iraj also joined her at the latter part of the show while band Black provided the music throughout the Concert.
The event was named as ‘Unoosha Live in Colombo’. This event is a promo or teaser of her new album which will be released during April, 2011.
Unoosha started singing at a very young age. Her parents are music legends in Maldives. Her mom and dad used to rock the stages when music really began to evolve in the heavenly islands of Maldives.
The inter School Music competition back then was the number one show for upcoming and talented singers. It started way back and a number of great singers during this time evolved. Unoosha started off singing since she was 6 years old. She competed in every inter school competition and despite her great vocals didn’t win a place in the top 3 but mostly she made it in the top 5.
It all changed when she sang the Dhivehi version of ‘Careless Whispers’ by George Michael on stage on her Eighth grade Inter School Music Competition. She won second place in the competition which proved to be the turning point. Next year she rocked the competition with the Maldivian version of ‘Will Always Love You’ by Whitney Houston. She won the well deserved First place and many offers started pouring in from the music producers to sing for audio albums.
Her career blossomed, and she started singing for numerous albums. Her most desirable type of music is her own creations but it was restricted because she wanted to support her family. The talent she has got is 100% natural, she hasn’t yet done a big vocal training and during her start and till now her main vocal exercise are the beautiful songs by great singers Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and Whitney Houston. Each morning she would sing these songs, so that her voice doesn’t lose the rhythm.
After a year since she finished the tenth grade she took up an offer from a local Music band called ‘Amozon Jade’ and worked with the band for 4 years. The main focus of the band was to play resort music, so she was on the move a lot. Her farther-like figure Mr. Naseer took care of her during the four years in the band and it was like losing a father for Unoosha when Mr. Naseer passed away in 2007. It will be a day Unoosha will never forget for the rest of her life.More than 100 studio recordings to her name, each and every album which comes out in Maldives has at least a song by Unoosha. After four years with the band she joined the National Center of the Arts (NCA) in 2008.
She also performed several times on national TV and a number of high profiled music events and festivals in Maldives. Recently she has formed her own band and has been playing at the most exclusive high class resort chains of Maldives.
She has also performed on Mariah Carey wedding renewal ceremony at Reethi Rah resort and recently performed at Waldorf Astoria Festive period of 2009 and 2010 at BEACH HOUSE THE WALDORF ASTORIA COLLECTION.
Recently she won the best female vocalist at the first Music Video Awards held by VTV. |
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