HAZAMI ENTERTAINER, SINGER, VOCAL TRAINER, SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER

BORN ON THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY 1975 IN IPOH , PERAK, HAZAMI STARTED SINGING AT ATENDER YOUNG AGE OF 4.URGED BY HIS LATE FATHER TO SING AT PDRM (POLIS DIRAJA MALAYSIA ) CEREMONIES, THE LITTLE HAZAMI SHOWED GLIMPSE OF A VERY PROMISING TALENT. EVEN AT SUCH AN EARLY AGE, SINGING IS HIS ­­­­ ULTIMATE PASSION. THE RADIO AND VOICE RECORDER WAS HIS FAVOURITE TOYS. WITH MUSICALLY INCLINED SIBLINGS (HIS BROTHERS FORMED THEIR OWN BAND) AND A SINGING MENTOR TO GUIDE HIM EVERSINCE HIS HIGH SCHOOL DAYS AT THE PENANG FREE SCHOOL, THERE WAS NO DOUBT WHAT HIS DREAMS WERE. HENCE, WHEN HE DECIDED TO PURSUE A DEGREE IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING AT BRUNEL UNIVERSITY , UNITED KINGDOM , HE DID NOT NEGLECT THE OPPORTUNITY TO HARNESS HIS VOCAL SKILLS OVER THERE. EARNING EXTRA INCOME WITH HIS SINGING WHETHER IN SMOKY PUBS OR AT THE SIDEWALK OF TUBE STATIONS WHILST COMPOSING HIS OWN SONGS IN HIS OTHER FREE TIME, HAS SHARPENED HIS MUSICALITY AND BROUGHT EXPERIENCE TO HIS VOICE. HE DID NOT JUST COME BACK TO MALAYSIA AS A QUALIFIED ENGINEER IN THE YEAR 2001, BUT HE BROUGHT WITH HIM HIS WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE AS A SINGER AND A SONGWRITER.

HAZAMI WENT ABROAD TO FURTHER HIS STUDIES BUT CAME HOME WITH MORE THAN A DEGREE HIS SIX YEARS IN LONDON SAW HIS METAMORPHOSIS FROM A BUDDING SINGER TO A SERIOUS SONGWRITER. SHORTLY UPON RETURNING HOME IN LATE 2001, WHILST WATCHING DAYANG NURFAIZAH'S SHOWCASE AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD KL, HE WAS INVITED ON STAGE FOR AN IMPROMPTU DUET. SO MESMERISING WAS HIS PERFORMANCE THAT NIGHT HE WAS INVITED BACK TO PLANET A FEW WEEKS AFTER ON 27TH JANUARY 2002 THIS TIME FOR HIS VERY

OWN SHOWCASE. A SHOWCASE AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD 'S SUNDAY NITE LIVE FOR A TOTAL UNKNOWN SPEAKS MUCH FOR HAZAMI'S RARE AND GIFTED TALENT. IT DID NOT TAKE LONG FOR SUCH A TALENT TO BE RECOGNIZED AND TRUE ENOUGH AFTER HIS PERFORMANCE BACKSTAGE, WARNER MUSIC OFFERED HIM A RECORDING DEAL! THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY WARNER MUSIC MALAYSIA A LEADING RECORDING LABEL IN MALAYSIA WHICH IS A PART OF THE AOL-TIME WARNER GROUP SIGNED HIM UP. AND AFTER 7 YEARS HE FORMED HAZAMI RECORDS HIS VERY OWN RECORD LABEL.

HAZAMI HAS THE MAKINGS OF A MUSIC ICON; NOT JUST ANY ICON BUT THE KIND WITH WHICH WARNER MUSIC MALAYSIA DESIRES TO ASSOCIATE AND DEVELOP. HAZAMI CAN BE A ROLE MODEL TO THE YOUTH. HE IS ABOUT THE PURSUIT OF DREAMS. HE IS ABOUT HAVING FUN AND YET RESPONSIBLE. HE HAS BEEN PASSIONATE ABOUT MUSIC BUT NEVER AT THE COST OF HIS EDUCATION. HE WON A SCHOLARSHIP TO STUDY INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING AND GRADUATED FROM BRUNEL UNIVERSITY , UK WITH AN HONEST DEGREE.

HAZAMI'S STYLE OF SINGING IS PURE, TRUE AND NATURAL. HAVING HONED HIS VOCALS FOR 14 YEARS, HAZAMI HAS A FANTASTIC VOCAL ABILITY, MAKING HIM, ARGUABLY, ONE OF THE WIDEST RANGED MALE ARTISTES. HAZAMI'S PLANET HOLLYWOOD PERFORMANCE SHOWCASED HIM AS A

CROSSOVER SINGER, POP, R&B, SOUL, GOSPEL AND EVEN A LITTLE OPERA FOUND THEIR PLACE IN HIS TRULY DISTINCTIVE VOCAL ARRANGEMENT. WHETHER BELTING OUT, CHILLING OUT OR WHISTLING HIS UPPER REGISTER, HE COMES ACROSS EFFORTLESS. THAT IS WHAT MAKES HAZAMI UNIQUE.

IT WAS ENVISIONED THAT HAZAMI WILL BE A LEADING RECORDING ARTISTE NOT ONLY IN MALAYSIA BUT THE ENTIRE MALAY-SPEAKING MARKET IN THIS REGION, WHICH INCLUDES INDONESIA , SINGAPORE AND BRUNEI . SUCH IS WARNER MUSIC'S GRAND DESIGN FOR HAZAMI.

HAZAMI'S FIRST SINGLE, ‘SONATA MUSIM SALJU' DEBUTED AT NUMBER 9 ON ‘CARTA ERA' AND HAS STAYED IN THE CHART FOR 17 WEEKS. IT WENT NUMBER 1 FOR A TOTAL OF 5 WEEKS. FOLLOWING THE SUDDEN SUCCESS OF ‘SONATA MUSIM SALJU' WARNER MUSIC MALAYSIA DECIDED TO RELEASE HIS ALBUM 3 MONTHS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.

HAZAMI'S DEBUT ALBUM - TEKAD REDHA TABAH COMPRISES MAINLY HIS OWN BODY OF WORK FROM HIS LONDON AND COLLEGE DAYS. ‘I DRAW STRENGTH FROM SONG-WRITING THAT IS WHY I WRITE, I WRITE AND I WRITE. EVEN SAD SONGS GIVE ME POSITIVE ENERGY. AS I EXPRESS I PROGRESS, AND I CAN'T WAIT TO PERFORM THESE NEW SONGS!,' SAYS HAZAMI ABOUT HIS PROLIFIC SONG-WRITING ACTIVITY. TEKAD REDHA TABAH SOLD 15,000 UNITS AND ACHIEVED GOLD PLATINUM STATUS. FOR HIS EFFORT HAZAMI WAS NOMINATED IN ‘THE BEST NEW ARTISTE' CATEGORY IN THE PRESTIGIOUS ANUGERAH INDUSTRI MUZIK (AIM) 2003. IN THE SAME YEAR, HE WON ‘ANUGERAH ARTIS LELAKI BARU POPULAR' AWARD IN THE ANUGERAH BINTANG POPULAR BERITA HARIAN (ABPBH).

FOLLOWING THE MANY SUCCESS OF THIS TALENTED SINGER, HAZAMI'S SECOND ALBUM ‘KATA' WAS RELEASED IN NOVEMBER 2004 AFTER NEARLY 2 YEARS OF PREPARATION. THE ALBUM COMPRISES ABOUT 40% HIS WORK AND A FEW OTHER ESTABLISHED COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS. THIS TIME HAZAMI DELIVERED A TRUE POP ALBUM THAT ALSO COMBINED ELEMENTS OF R&B, HIP HOP AND ROCK. IN KATA, LISTENERS WOULD FIND MODERATE-FAST SONGS IMPLYING THAT YOU CAN BE SURE HE WILL APPEAR THIS TIME WITH DANCERS, PLUS WE KNOW PIANO AND CHOIR.EVEN BEFORE HIS SECOND ALBUM WAS RELEASED WARNER MUSIC MALAYSIA HAS OFFERED HIM TO RECORD HIS OWN RENDITION OF BROERY MARANTIKA SONG - SETULUS CINTAMU, TRIBUTE FOR KASIH BROERY ALBUM WAS RELEASED MID 2004 TO A GREAT RESPONSE BY THE PUBLIC A LEGEND TO HIM, HAZAMI WAS INDEED FLATTERED TO BE PART OF THE PROJECT.

‘KATA' PROVED TO BE A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE IN THE CAREER OF THIS EVOLVING TALENT. FROM THIS ALBUM ALONE, TWO SONGS PENNED BY HAZAMI HIMSELF THAT RECEIVED FREQUENT AIRPLAY BY THE LOCAL RADIO STATIONS MADE BREAKTHROUGHS BY QUALIFYING FOR THE FINALS OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS MUSIC AWARD CEREMONY IN THE COUNTRY, THE TV3‘S ANUGERAH JUARA LAGU (AJL) - FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS, 2005 AND 2006. IN THE AJL 2005 - THE UP BEAT SONG KATA PERFORMED BY HAZAMI WITH THE BACKING OF A POWERFUL AND ROUSING 40 MEMBERS CHOIR AND COOL HIP-HOP BACK UP DANCERS WON THE BEST SONG IN THE POP ROCK CATEGORY. THE APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE UPON SEEING SUCH A FRESH AND CREATIVE

PERFORMANCE WAS TREMENDOUS. HAZAMI WAS DANCING THROUGH OUT HIS PERFORMANCE AND BY DELIVERING BEAUTIFULLY CONSISTENT VOCALS THROUGH OUT, WON THE AWARD FOR THE BEST VOCALS CATEGORY THAT NIGHT. IN THE AJL 2006 - THE POWERFUL BALLAD ‘MUNGKIR BAHAGIA' WAS PERFORMED BY HAZAMI WITH THE BACKING OF 19 MEMBER CHOIR, THAT ALSO PERFORMED A SPECIALLY CONCEPTUALIZED PANTOMIME. THE PERFORMANCE WAS SO HEARTFELT IT DREW TEARS NOT ONLY FROM THE CROWD BUT ALSO THE JURIES THEMSELVES. FOR HIS PERFORMANCE, HAZAMI WON THE BEST PERFORMANCE AWARD.

HAZAMI IS KNOWN FOR HIS CREATIVE AND ENTERTAINING STYLE OF PERFORMANCE AS HE HAS PERFORMED IN PLANET HOLLYWOOD, NO BLACK TIE, DARI STUDIO SATU, JOM HEBOH, ISTANA BUDAYA, SPECIAL PROJECT OF ‘NEGARAKU' AT PHILHARMONICS HALL, ANUGERAH JUARA LAGU, ANUGERAH INDUSTRI MUZIK, ANUGERAH BINTANG POPULAR, ANUGERAH ERA, TV AND ROAD SHOWS ALL OVER MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, AND INDONESIA, MESMERISING HIS FANS THROUGH HIS MUSIC. WITH HIS THIRD ALBUM ‘NYATA' HAZAMI CONTINUES TO BE A HOUSEHOLD BRAND.

HAZAMI HAS ALSO BEEN RECOGNISED AS A MOTIVATIONAL ICON FOR THE ‘TEKAD PROJECT' WHICH HAS BEEN ORGANISED BY VOLUNTEERS AND OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED BY THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. A PROJECT FOR YOUGSTERS 15 - 17 YEAR OLDS FROM MANY DISFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, HAZAMI‘S SONG TEKAD BECAME THE THEME SONG FOR THIS PROJECT. TEKAD IS ABOUT SELF BELIEF AND NEVER GIVING UP, A POWERFUL MESSAGE FROM HAZAMI WHO HIMSELF BELIEVES THAT EDUCATION IS THE REASON WHY HE HAS COME SO FAR

HAZAMI IS NOW RECOGNISED AS AN ESTABLISHED VOCAL TRAINER IN THE LOCAL MUSIC INDUSTRY. HE BELIEVES IN SHARING HIS VOCAL TECHNIQUES WITH HIS STUDENTS. SOME OF THEM HAVE WON GRAND COMPETITIONS. HIS STUDENTS ARE ESTABLISHED SINGERS, VIPS STUDENTS, RECORDING-ARTISTE-TO-BE AND JUST ABOUT ANYBODY WHO IS INTERESTED TO

LEARN HOW TO IMPROVE, ENRICH AND ENHANCE HIS STUDENTS' SINGING HENCE PREPARING THEM FOR RECORDINGS,SHOWS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY PREPARING HIS STUDENTS TO BE CONFIDENT. HAVING THE EXPERIENCE OF TRAINING VOCALS FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, HE WAS CHOSEN TO BE A MENTOR FOR TV3‘S PROGRAM ‘MENTOR'. HAZAMI HAS COLLABORATED WITH VARIOUS ARTISTES, BE IT IN PERFORMANCE, SONGWRITING, VOCAL TRAINING OR ALBUM PRODUCTION. HAZAMI IS NOW LIVING HIS DREAM TO BE A SINGER-SONGWRITER-VOCAL TRAINER-PRODUCER

IN JUST SEVEN YEARS OF HIS CAREER, HAZAMI HAS NOW BEEN RECOGNISED BY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FOR HIS MUSICALITY, HIS VOCAL PROWESS AND HIS BRAND OF ENTERTAINMENT. THE AUDIENCE LOVED HIM, THE JURIES VALUED HIS TALENTS HIGHLY AND THE AWARDS ARE THE REWARD FOR HIS HARDWORK AND EFFORTS HE HAD PUT IN FOR HIS FANS AND ALL MUSIC LOVERS