Siti Nurhaliza The Malaysian Nightingale

Siti Nurhaliza biography, profile, biodata

Siti Nurhaliza binti Taruddin was born on the 11th January 1979 at Kampung Awah, Temerloh, Pahang. As a kid, she was labeled a "tomboy" because of her active attitude and her preference to boyish looks. When singing was wanted to be a policeman like her father. Her family was tight on finance and she helped her mother selling "kuih" all around the village. During these days, her will to help her family grew day by day.

Her mother was her mentor into bringing her up to the image of the well-behaved Malay girl. She started to sport a more feminine look when she started school. Siti's family performed traditional shows and other performances for marriages and other special events. Siti was given a chance at 12 to sing traditional and folk songs like her mother did. She performed numerous in-house performances and her talent built up day by day.

She went to Sekolah Menengah Clifford, Kuala Lipis, Pahang for her secondary education. Siti was an active sportsgirl during her schooldays. She represented the school in netball and other sports such as field hockey, handball and volleyball. She was well loved by her colleagues and teachers for her fine behaviour.

Siti got herself into singing seriously when she actively participated in many local competitons. She won the Merdeka Day Singing Contest in 1991 and the another contest during the Karnival Lipis. In Form Four, Siti contested in the Juara Bintang HMI 1995 singing contest sponsored by RTM. She captured the sight of the famous composer, Adnan Abu Hassan during the quarter finals. He tutored Siti during the short period of time and gave tips and tricks of vocal performance. She won the contest.

She then got her contract drawn with Suria Records, where Adnan was a director. She had a tough time on her first album because she got to manage her time between her career and her education, since she was bound to sit for the SPM exams in 1996. Her first album was self-titled - Siti Nurhaliza. Siti have a soul-capturing unique voice and also a unique style of vocalization. She got a rep of being an ethical and punctual celebrity. She refuses to be photographed with any male without any reasonable purpose due to fear of controversy, "fitnah" and bad rep. With this personality plus her special vocal plus a fine, cute looks, she was bound to be the singer of the millenium.

Siti went on further expanding her wings internationally and improving herself greatly by the years. Maybelline was convinced enough with Siti's credibility and style to grant her a position as a spokesperson for the internationally renowned cosmetics company. Maybelline TV advertisements instantly was done by Siti Nurhaliza and Siti paced up to their marketing and promotions. Lately, Siti had also accepted the Red Crescent Society of Malaysia to be their patron.

Siti Nurhaliza can not be only called a singer. She is a social icon of the Malaysian society. She is Siti Nurhaliza by name and nobody is Siti Nurhaliza other than her.

Penelope Cruz biography & filmography

Penelope Cruz biography

Penelope Cruz ( full name Penelope Cruz Sanches ) was born on April the 28th 1974. The eldest daughter of a hairdresser and an auto mechanic, growing up in Madrid, Spain, Penelope Cruz didn't want the normal pretty pony or a pretty stud,she instead dreamed of swans and nutcrackers and handsome princes! She further studied classical ballet at the National Conservatory for nine years.

Biography and Career :

Penelope Cruz worked steadily in Spanish cinema from her 1991 debut in El Laberinto Griego (Greek Labyrinth), for the next seven years. Cruz also made a brief and forgettable trip to the American shores, and accepted a role in a 1993 telepic, Framed, featuring Timothy Dalton. And then in Belle Epoque, which won a 1994 foreign film Oscar. She then played what she deemed "the ugly woman" in Live Flesh and in Mother (1999), in which Cruz depicted a nun impregnated by a transvestite. Penelope Cruz filmed La Nina de Tus Ojos (The Girl of Your Dreams), a role that would earn her a 1999 Best Actress Goya. She also appeared in the Hollywood feature, The Hi-Lo Country, with Woody Harrelson and Billy Crudup.

She ran right out and completely spent all of her first official Tinseltown paycheck. Unlike any starlet, however, she donated those earnings to Mother Theresa's children's sanctuary in Calcutta, India, where she had briefly volunteered.

Penelope Cruz's physical beauty secured her next upcoming major motion picture outing, as Johnny Depp's drug-addicted wife, in Blow (2001). Penelope Cruz spent the beginning of the new millennium in Greece as Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale vie for her affections in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Meanwhile, her name has been paired with the other world-famous Cruise (Tom, but of course) to complete director-screenwriter Cameron Crowe's next pic, Vanilla Sky.

Filmography :

Diary of a Young London Physician, The - 2003...Leilah

Masked & Anonymous - 2003

Fanfan la tulipe - 2003...Adeline La Franchise

Vanilla Sky - 2001...Sofia Serrano

Sin noticias de Dios - 2001...Carmen Ramos

America: A Tribute to Heroes - 2001...Herself

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - 2001...Pelagia - The Greeks

Blow - 2001...Mirtha Jung

73rd Annual Academy Awards, The - 2001...Herself

Woman on Top - 2000...Isabella Oliveira

All the Pretty Horses - 2000...Alejandra de la Rocha

Volaverunt - 1999...Pepita Tudo

Todo sobre mi madre - 1999...Sister Rosa

Hi-Lo Country, The - 1998...Josepha O'Neil

Nigna de tus ojos, La - 1998...Macarena

Talk of Angels - 1998...Pilar

Man with Rain in His Shoes, The - 1998...Louise

Don Juan - 1998...Mathurine

Abre los ojos - 1997...Sofia

Carne tremula - 1997- as Penelope Cruz...Isabel

Hjrne af paradis,

Amor perjudica seriamente la salud, El - 1996...Diana - 30 anos mas joven

Mas que amor, frenesi - 1996

Celestina, La - 1996...Melibea

Brujas - 1996/I...Patricia

Entre rojas - 1994...Lucia

Todo es mentira - 1994...Lucia

Alegre ma non troppo - 1994...Salome

Per amore, solo per amore - 1993...Mary

Ribelle, La - 1993...Enza

Jamon, jamon - 1992...Silvia

Belle epoque - 1992...Luz

Framed - 1992- TV- as Penelope Cruz Sanchez...Lola Del Moreno

Laberinto griego, El - 1991...Elise