Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian Singer Who Has Succeeded in Neighboring Countries and Internationally

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FEMUSINDO.com - Siti Nurhaliza is a Malaysian singer, actress, songwriter, record producer, television presenter and entrepreneur.

She rose to fame as a multiple platinum-selling artist, since she won the Malaysian reality show Bintang HMI 1995 when she was 16 years old.

At that time, she was offered a singing contract by four different international record companies.

First Single Release

Siti Nurhaliza's first single from her debut album, "Jerat Percintaan", won the 11th Anugerah Juara Lagu and two other awards for Best Performance and Best Ballad.

The singer who was born in Kampung Awah, Temerloh, Pahang, Malaysia, on January 11, 1979, has won a number of international singing competitions since her debut.

She was crowned Voice of Asia in 2002 after winning the Grand Prix Champion title at the Voice of Asia singing contest held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

A few years earlier, in 1999, he won the Gold Award in the Asian New Singer Competition at the Shanghai Asian Music Festival, held in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.

In addition, in the same year, he won two awards from the 1999 South Pacific International Song and Singing Competition held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Won Hundreds of Local and International Awards

To date, he has won and collected more than 300 local and international awards.

In 2005, his album alone sold more than 800,000 units in Malaysia. In his career, he has recorded and sung in various languages, including Bahasa Malaysia, Javanese, English, Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi and Japanese.

He has won an unprecedented number of music awards in Malaysia and the surrounding region.

He has won the Anugerah Industri Muzik award, 25 Anugerah Bintang Popular awards, 27 Anugerah Planet Muzik awards and 19 Anugerah Juara Lagu awards.

Then, four MTV Asia Awards, three World Music Awards, two Anugerah Musik Indonesia and holder of two records in the Malaysian Book of Records.

Most Popular Artist in the Malay Archipelago and the Indonesian Archipelago

Supported by 16 studio albums, Siti Nurhaliza is one of the most popular artists in the Malay Archipelago and the Indonesian Archipelago.

She has been voted the Most Popular Regional Artist ten times in a row, beating other fellow artists from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore in the Anugerah Planet Muzik since 2001.

Currently, Siti Nurhaliza is one of the richest, most influential, most award-winning and most single-producing artists in Malaysia.

She is also one of the best-selling artists in Malaysia, because in 2000, her album sales alone accounted for 10 percent of total album sales in Malaysia. Currently, she has sold more than 6 million in record sales.

Biggest Asian Artist and Honorary Title

In 1998, Siti Nurhaliza was selected as one of several Malaysian artists to perform at the closing ceremony of the 1998 Commonwealth Games.

She performed at the closing ceremony of the 1998 Commonwealth Games in front of Queen Elizabeth II and her consort, Prince Philip and several other guests and dignitaries from 70 countries that are part of the Commonwealth of Nations.

In 2005, she became the first Southeast Asian singer, and the third Asian singer to perform a solo concert at the Royal Albert Hall while being accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.

In 2005, she was also ranked second on MTV Asia's list of Best Musical Artists in Asia and was named the Biggest Asian Artist by Channel V.

In 2008, she was named one of Asia's Idols by Asia News Network. Her success in the Asian region has earned her honorary titles including "Voice of Asia" and "Celine Dion of Asia". (*)