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ده مقال انكتب عن لارا في احدى احدي المجلات الاجنبية و العنوان كان:
lara scandar : a new star was born
You don’t have to win a reality show to
earn yourself a record deal. Runners-up can do just as well clawing
their way into the music charts.
Look at Susan Boyle, JLS or Adam Lambert. None of them won their shows,
and yet their musical efforts float out across the airwaves.
Lara
Scandar, 19, is a name you may be able to soon bracket alongside them.
The Egyptian teenager was a finalist in the last season of the pan-Arab
television show Star Academy, similar in format to the British Fame
Academy, where contestants all live together, perform in a weekly
prime-time show, via which their numbers are slowly picked off by
voting viewers.
Scandar
came fifth in the last season. But eight months on, she has just
launched her first single in her home city of Cairo and has
arrived in Dubai for a UAE launch before jetting on to Beirut for more
of the same. All of this, and yet she still faces another three years
of study at the American University of Cairo.
“I’m so sorry I’m
late. I was in class,” she says breathlessly down the telephone during
a break in her university timetable. It couldn’t matter a bit, but she
is genuinely apologetic. There’s no trace of a budding diva.
Mission Is You is the title of her first single, written by a European production house and produced by Jean-Marie Bianchi, most
well-known for his work with the Arabic artists Majida El Roumy,
Elissa, Nawal Al Zoghbi and Haifa. “ I usually write my own songs, but
because of how much I loved it I just really didn’t care that it wasn’t
by me. It’s really fun,” she says.
It was Bianchi’s name that
attracted another big shot to the billing: Ray Kay. He is a Norwegian
film director, famous for having directed Lady Gaga’s Poker Face video.
His CV also includes names such as Beyoncé, Ciara, the Backstreet Boys
and Jadakiss. “When I was told I had the chance of shooting my first
video with him I just went crazy,” says Scandar. “He sent us a
storyboard and I liked it straight away because it was very simple.”
lara scandar : a new star was born
You don’t have to win a reality show to
earn yourself a record deal. Runners-up can do just as well clawing
their way into the music charts.
Look at Susan Boyle, JLS or Adam Lambert. None of them won their shows,
and yet their musical efforts float out across the airwaves.
Lara
Scandar, 19, is a name you may be able to soon bracket alongside them.
The Egyptian teenager was a finalist in the last season of the pan-Arab
television show Star Academy, similar in format to the British Fame
Academy, where contestants all live together, perform in a weekly
prime-time show, via which their numbers are slowly picked off by
voting viewers.
Scandar
came fifth in the last season. But eight months on, she has just
launched her first single in her home city of Cairo and has
arrived in Dubai for a UAE launch before jetting on to Beirut for more
of the same. All of this, and yet she still faces another three years
of study at the American University of Cairo.
“I’m so sorry I’m
late. I was in class,” she says breathlessly down the telephone during
a break in her university timetable. It couldn’t matter a bit, but she
is genuinely apologetic. There’s no trace of a budding diva.
Mission Is You is the title of her first single, written by a European production house and produced by Jean-Marie Bianchi, most
well-known for his work with the Arabic artists Majida El Roumy,
Elissa, Nawal Al Zoghbi and Haifa. “ I usually write my own songs, but
because of how much I loved it I just really didn’t care that it wasn’t
by me. It’s really fun,” she says.
It was Bianchi’s name that
attracted another big shot to the billing: Ray Kay. He is a Norwegian
film director, famous for having directed Lady Gaga’s Poker Face video.
His CV also includes names such as Beyoncé, Ciara, the Backstreet Boys
and Jadakiss. “When I was told I had the chance of shooting my first
video with him I just went crazy,” says Scandar. “He sent us a
storyboard and I liked it straight away because it was very simple.”
