KEHEBATAN DATUK SHAKE

TOPIK TAJUK HIP TV PADA ISNIN 07-09-2009 - ARTIS KAHWIN WARGA ASING

Bukan nak mempertikaikan keunggulan Diva no: 1 Malaysia - Anita Sarawak - dimana Anita bersama pasangannya Abang Mahathir diletakkan di anaktangga PERTAMA. Tetapi atas dasar apa atau kriteria mana bagi menentukan sesuatu penilaian yg di buat oleh pihak TV9 dalam menyenaraikan carta2 yg di buat paparan pada sesuatu pemilihan atas topik tajuk tertentu? Ini nampak macam ianya seolah2 membuat apa yg dikemukakan oleh TV9 tu sesuatu yg sahih benar dan tepat serta muktamad belaka. IYE KE NI? BETUL KE NI? BOLEH PICAYA KE? BOLEH PAKAI KE TV9 PUNYA LIST NI?

JANGAN CONFIDENT SANGAT especially pada si hos yg nampak terlampau2 over-excited sangat (tapi I nampak mcm dia tu over-sexcited - sexy la u) dalam memberi analisa dan penjelasan yg tidak meyakinkan langsung tu.

JANGAN BIKIN KECOH ....... JANGAN BIKIN GAMAT BANGAT ...... JANGAN BIKIN HAVOC ........
Padahal ianya banyak boleh DIPERTIKAIKAN dan boleh DISANGKAL dgn begitu mudah, jelas dan nyata.
Awak2 di TV9 TIDAK PUNYA HAK DAN KUASA MUTLAK UNTUK MEMBERI KATAPUTUS DIATAS SESUATU KEPUTUSAN yang melibatkan sesuatu fakta yg sudah termaktub dgn rekod2 yg sudah sedia ada. Sebab itulah .... pengkajian teliti harus di buat sebelum sesuatu itu hendak di utarakan ..... home-work .... home-work juga perlu. Jangan pandang remeh .... Jangan pandang enteng .....Jangan pandang ringan .... Jangan ambil mudah. Kerana ini semua melibatkan fakta..

JANGAN MAIN HENTAM KEROMO saja ..... SEMBERONO kata orang Jawa.
JANGAN MAIN IKUT SUKA .... SESUKA HATI PIHAK TERTENTU SAHAJA. Ia akan memutar-belitkan fakta sebenar.
JANGAN MEMUTAR-BELITKAN FAKTA.

Berbalik kpd topik tajuk pasangan artis tempatan yg berkahwin dgn warga asing .......jika 'kebahagiaan' di ambilkira (dan sememangnya pun dalam hubungan ini iaitu hubungan pasangan suami-isteri .... sudah tentu kriteria ini amat relevan sekali - iaitu 'kebahagiaan'). Namun kebahagiaan yg dikecapi oleh pasangan Anita Sarawak bersama Abang Mahathirnya hanyalah baru 9 tahun .... jika dibandingkan dgn pasangan Datuk Shake yg sudah sekian lama (lebih dari 22 atau 23 tahun bersama di alam rumahtangga bersama pasangan warga asing). Adakah ini tidak melayakkan beliau berada di anaktangga PERTAMA?
Amat pelik sekali jika beliau dgn pasangannya berada di anaktangga yg tidak sepatutnya. Dalam senarai kesembilan artis2 pilihan TV9 itu - hanya Datuk Shake seorang sahaja yg kekal lama sehingga sekarang - sehingga ke anak cucu. Beliau sudah mempunyai 5 orang cucu setakat bulan Mei tahun 2007. Bukankah itu suatu peningkatan ketahap yg boleh kita simpulkan "SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE"? Sudah tentu sekali. Justeru itu, sememangnya tahap beliau di anaktangga PERTAMA tidak harus di sangsi dan di ragukan lagi ..... kerana Datuk Shake bukan sembarangan orang. Seorang individu Malaysia yg meningkat naik atas daya usaha keringat beliau sendiri. Inilah satu contoh insan cemerlang gemilang dan terbilang. Record shows..

Itu satu contoh yg paling jelas dan ketara. Dan pada yang lain2nya juga harus di ambilkira sama seperti proses yg diamalkan secara ikhlas, jujur dan tulin. Ini barulah dapat memberi KEYAKINAN SEPENUHNYA kepada sesiapa saja tanpa boleh dipersoalkan & dipertikaikan lagi.

Jangan jatuhkan taraf (standard) stesen TV9 kepada tahap yg tersangat daif dan rendah dimata penonton dan khalayak umum.
It reflects the 'penerbit' as well as the whole tv station i.e. TV9 itself.

Jadikan TV9 betul2 'di HATI' penonton ..... bukan disebaliknya ..... MENYAKITKAN HATI penonton sahaja.


Untuk perhatian pihak berkenaan ..... dipaparkan dibawah mengenai kehebatan Datuk Shake di arena antarabangsa ketahap global:


Monday March 15, 2004
Still shaking up the world
By JASON CHEAH

Close to 30 years of music from Datuk Shake gives you one impression .... a heady pop survivor. JASON CHEAH speaks to the venerable musical Datuk from Johor who lived in France and now in the United States.

Fact file

Name: Datuk Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad (aka Datuk Shake)

Age: Early 50s

Hometown: Johor Baru

Datuk Shake performing at Planet Hollywood in Kuala Lumpur last month. The musical Datuk, who has just released a new album called Keamanan (Peace), will be back in Malaysia soon to thrill his fans.
Education: Johor Baru. No tertiary education; vocal classes in England

Current base: Beverly Hills, California

Years spent abroad: Almost 30

THE music of Malaysian pop legend Datuk Shake was already hitting the European market during the disco fever craze in the mid-1970s.

And since then, 20 million unit sales of albums and singles in three languages – English, French and Malay – is an achievement few Malaysian pop stars can even dream of.

But a hiatus from the music studio realm for the last eight years might lead one to think that Shake has had his day.

The Datuk whose full name is Sheikh Abdullah is in his early 50s; he tends not to reveal his exact age. The last time he had an official album release in Malaysia was in 1996, although in 1997 a repackaged greatest hits compilation released in France called The Best of Shake sold 200,000 copies in that country.

Today the man is back, with a new album called Keamanan (Peace), just released under the new MCatalogue online format.

The album has been a long time coming for Shake, who is now based in Beverley Hills, California, where he lives with his wife and the younger two of their four children.

He was in town last month for a special one-night-only performance at Kuala Lumpur's Planet Hollywood which took place the night before this interview.

"The album was supposed to be released in 2001 but the 9/11 disaster delayed its release," Shake revealed.

"I came back with about 30 songs (for the album). It was quite hard to choose because most of the songs were quite good.

"Some of the songs – we managed to get the lyrics faster than for others. For the other songs the lyrics (of which) we didn't like, we changed them."

All in all, it took all those eight years in between album releases to finish it.

"I spent US$380,000 (RM1.44mil) because I did it from scratch from nothing to the mastering."

What helped him a lot was the fact that he had his own studio at home anyway.

"I also made a lot of friends in the industry in Hollywood and at the end we managed to choose 10 songs."

Nevertheless, if you do log on to www. mcatalogue.com, you will find that it is an EP of five songs.

"The company asked me to sell the songs like that and the price is reasonable at RM10, which includes postage and delivery to your door."

The rest of the songs may turn up at a later date in another EP, he said..

"But we're looking at selling it in great volume," Shake explained.

"I don't like to say ‘fighting piracy' because it's a never-ending story, but if people want it cheap, then we sell it cheap.

"Of course, there's a limit and I hope the fans understand it's not easy to make good music with good production (quality). If we see the success of this one then we will know what direction we'll be going.

"My fans have even been asking me to remix my old songs and I thought of doing it too."

Things are looking up even in the first territory that Shake conquered as a pop star – France.

"My (former) French record company has been asking me too because it has been quite a while since I was in the market (there)."

He had at the time left that record label after a disagreement with his French producer.

"But at the end of the day because of demand from the fans, the radio stations had been playing old songs and also my songs and the producer heard it."

That was in 1997 when he brought the compilation out, without even Shake's knowledge. "He just ‘out' the cover on TV and remixed my songs and showed my old pictures and it had already sold 60,000 before he called me."

After he travelled to France and appearing on a few TV shows, sales shot up to hit the 200,000 mark.

Back on the subject of the new album, Shake continued:

"I called the album Keamanan because of the situation the world is in now. With the song Keamanan, in English it was originally called Peace in the Eastern Town, which was actually released on a CD EP which also included the song Nothing's New and Nothing's Changed.

"I wrote that (Keamanan) song before Sting wrote Desert Rose even. But it never came out on radio," he said, referring to the Arabic styling of the vocal trill in the songs. "I was working with producer Michael Sembello (of Maniac fame in the 1980s) and at the time he was already heading to World Music."

Even with the recent activity, it is no doubt a far cry from his heady peak days.

"Between 1976 and 1986, I used to release four singles and up to two albums per year. Back then, there were not so many artistes; (the music market) was not so overloaded and it was easy to sell one or two million copies."

No longer, since the output has slowed down since 1986.

However, any way you look at it, Shake's story is certainly one of rags to riches.

Born Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad in Johor Baru, he comes from a family of five brothers and seven sisters; he was the third youngest.

Shake found his individuality in singing and spent his teenage years plying the nightclub scene of his hometown, singing cover songs of Al Green, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Presley and The Beatles, among others.

A proposed trip led to him packing his suitcase and leaving all he knew behind to travel thousands of miles to Europe in the mid-1970s.

His journey first brought him to England, where he studied with classical vocal coach John Dolby, mastering his vocal skills.

Then he was introduced to a French record company, which signed him up almost on the spot. His first single, You Know I Love You, was a huge success.

That was in 1976, and especially when he sang in a language he didn't even speak, for the single to hit No.1 was something of a miracle. They called him Shake there, since most Frenchmen couldn't pronounce the original spelling of his name.

His unique name and exotic looks set him apart from the crowd, but it was his voice and that made him one of the premier artistes in France then.

Over the years, his albums reached gold and platinum sales status in France and French-speaking countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, the Ivory Coast, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg.

Back home, word began to spread that a young man from Johor was a pop star in France.

Shake was soon contacted by the late Sultan Ismail Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, asked to return home and be recognised for his tremendous accomplishment and was conferred a Datukship in 1979.

As Datuk Shake, he began his Malay music career, and as of today he is still one of only a handful of Asian singers to have reached stardom in another continent.

He was given the medal of L'art et de Lettre (In the Honor of Arts and Letters) for bringing the French language to an English-speaking country.

These days, in his current hometown of Beverly Hills, he is constantly working on projects related to music and entertainment.

Currently, Shake is still in Malaysia, preparing himself for a full-scale road show.

"I'll be working towards a tour here in April or end of March to do at least six towns in Malaysia, Brunei and even Singapore," he said.

And this time he should be accompanied by a full live band. "I have a choice of either getting French musicians or from the United States," he said..

But apparently it is more likely to be a band from France, because, "the really good local musicians have already been taken."

"After that I have to record a new French album. My French fans want it, and I've got to be in France to do that. When you're doing it, you've got to be in that environment."

But he still keeps tabs on the future of the Malaysian music industry, about which he seems to be cautiously optimistic.

"Takkan I balik sini I don't know who's No.1 and all," he said in typical style, meaning of course that when he comes back he has to know who is tops in the scene.

"I've got to be curious and alert to what's going on or I'll be left behind. After all, this is my business. I make it my business," he said.

"I want to see if there's a potential singer that can go far. I'm not selfish. A lot of them are good, but musical composition and direction is like a little bit here and there.

"It's all about packaging. I have seen potentials but it's not my right to tell who and who yet," he says of the current batch of up-and-coming artistes.

"A lot of our artistes are very good singers but they have to learn ‘power singing'. All they need is a good teacher."

And then, before he even thinks of making his way to France again, Shake is going back to California first.

"As a father, I have to go back to see my sons (soon)," the former heartthrob of thousands of young female fans said, laughing. The sons he was talking about are his 22-year-old twins, the younger of his four children.

"Both are still studying in Beverly Hills, one to be an actor and writer and one to be a movie director.

"My priority is my kids. All others can wait," he laughed again.

Originally published in The Star on Monday March 15, 2004
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Monday May 14, 2007
Datuk Shake Diet and exercise key to his health
PETALING JAYA: Age is no barrier for the young at heart. That is the feeling of Datuk Shake, a popular singer in the 70s currently residing in Paris.

The fifty-something-year-old singer, who was here to entertain his fans at a Mother’s Day event at Seri Pacific Hotel yesterday, admitted that he did not like to talk about his age.

“I feel young forever, old age seems like you want to retire...”

The singer, famous for his songs Ummi, Pulanglah, Kau Bungaku and Anugerah Dari Kegagalan has no problem taking care of himself by eating a healthy diet and exercising in the gym.

However, he was not shy about talking about his five grandchildren.


Still shakin’: Datuk Shake entertaining fans at a Mother’s Day event at a hotel in Petaling Jaya yesterday.
“Having each grandchild was a beautiful moment. It’s like having a child. The feeling is almost the same. Children brighten up our lives,” the Johor-born artiste said.
Datuk Shake comes from a big family that includes five brothers and seven sisters. He is also Sports Minister Datuk Azalina Othman Said’s uncle.

He is the third amongst his siblings and Azalina’s mother, Salmah Ahmad, is Datuk Shake’s elder sister.

Datuk Shake left for England to expand his career, tutored under famous classical vocal teacher John Dolby in the 70s and was later introduced to a French recoding company.

His first hit, You Know I Love You in French, reached gold and platinum status and was a best seller in many European countries.

That was also the time that the name Datuk Shake was coined as the French found it hard to pronounce his given name, Datuk Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad.

The ‘low-profile’ singer is proud of his mother tongue although he had received an award L’art et de Lettre (In the Honour of Arts and Letters) for introducing the French language in English speaking countries..

“I love my language. It’s my language. Where I am I will show them what my language is,” he said.

When asked whether he would come back to Malaysia to stay here, Datuk Shake said he has many responsibilities now with his music career and also an apparel business.

“It’s not that I don’t miss my home, just that I’m tied with my responsibilities. My main priorities are now my wife (Datin Milena) and my children.



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Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad
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Datuk Sheikh Abdullah Ahmad Bakhbereh
or popularly known as Datuk Shake is a popular Malaysian singer in the local Malay music scene. A Hadrami by descent (Hadramout, Yemen), Sheikh is from Johor, Malaysia but is now based in Beverly Hills, California with his wife and the younger two of their four children. He came from a big family of five brothers and seven sisters, in which he was the third youngest.
Sheikh spent his teenage years singing at his hometown's nightclub where he performed cover versions of songs by Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Presley and The Beatles. He went to Europe in the mid-1970s and England was his first stop, where he studied with classical vocal coach, John Dolby.

In 1976, he was introduced to a French record company, which released his first hit single, You Know I Love You. During this period, his albums actually reached gold and platinum sales status in France.

Sheikh was conferred a Datukship in 1979 by the late Sultan Ismail Sultan Ibrahim of Johor.

Sheikh is the maternal uncle of Datuk Azalina Othman Said, the Malaysian Minister for Youth and Sports, whose mother, Salmah Ahmad is Sheikh's sister.