Lamya was a female R&B and dance music singer, born in Kenya of Omani descent and raised in Sheffield. A remix of her song "Empires" hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002. After singing lead vocals on "Break 4 Love" by DJ Vaughn Mason in 1991, she was chosen to perform lead vocals for Soul II Soul on the tracks "Love Come Through" and "In the Heat of the Night", from their sophomore album Vol. II: 1990 - A New Decade.
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- Lamya was a female R&B and dance music singer, born in Kenya of Omani descent and raised in Sheffield. A remix of her song "Empires" hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002. After singing lead vocals on "Break 4 Love" by DJ Vaughn Mason in 1991, she was chosen to perform lead vocals for Soul II Soul on the tracks "Love Come Through" and "In the Heat of the Night", from their sophomore album Vol. II: 1990 - A New Decade. In 1993, she joined Duran Duran for their two-year Wedding Album tour, and related television appearances, including MTV Unplugged. She also performed with David Bowie and James Brown. In 2002, Lamya released her first and only album, Learning from Falling. She produced and composed the songs, using poems she had written since the age of eleven. It included the singles "Empires (Bring Me Men)" and "Black Mona Lisa". In its review of the album, Blender described her as "the Kenyan Björk". She appeared in Nelson Mandela's February 2003 AIDS benefit concert,, and opened for Macy Gray later that year. The album debuted at #16 on the Top Heatseekers chart, but neither of its singles entered the Billboard Hot 100. She was scheduled to release her sophomore album, Hiding in Plain Sight, in 2009, but died of a sudden and unexpected heart attack on 8 January, 2009, while in Oman.
- Nata in Oman, cresciuta a Londra e in Egitto, per continuare la sua carriera musicale si è trasferita a New York. Inizialmente si è formata come cantante classica e possiede una estensione vocale di cinque ottave. Nel 1991 ha cantato nel coro principale di Break 4 Love di DJ Vaughn Mason e nel coro principale dei Soul II Soul. Ha poi seguito i Duran Duran nell'album The Wedding Album 1993 più tour mondiale 93/94 e nel successivo album Thank You più Tour 1995 e partecipazione con la band londinese al Festival di Sanremo con il brano White Lines. Ha partecipato a esibizioni con David Bowie e James Brown. Nel 2002 è uscito il suo primo album, Learning from Falling, del quale ha composto e prodotto le canzoni utilizzando testi che aveva scritto dall'età di 11 anni. Da quest'album sono stati estratti due singoli, Empires uscito anche in Italia, il quale ha avuto un buon riscontro radiofonico e Black Mona Lisa, del quale c'è anche un remix con il rapper indiano Juggy D. Un remix di Empires ha raggiunto la prima posizione della classifica dance statunitense di Billboard nel 2002. È morta a causa di un infarto in Oman, il suo paese natale, l' 8 gennaio del 2009.
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- Lamya was a female R&B and dance music singer, born in Kenya of Omani descent and raised in Sheffield. A remix of her song "Empires" hit #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002. After singing lead vocals on "Break 4 Love" by DJ Vaughn Mason in 1991, she was chosen to perform lead vocals for Soul II Soul on the tracks "Love Come Through" and "In the Heat of the Night", from their sophomore album Vol. II: 1990 - A New Decade.
- Nata in Oman, cresciuta a Londra e in Egitto, per continuare la sua carriera musicale si è trasferita a New York. Inizialmente si è formata come cantante classica e possiede una estensione vocale di cinque ottave. Nel 1991 ha cantato nel coro principale di Break 4 Love di DJ Vaughn Mason e nel coro principale dei Soul II Soul.
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