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Chantal Chamandy Makes History As the First Egyptian/Lebanese Artist to Break into the American Top 10 Music Charts on R&R – Marrakech Video Gets Heavy Play on MTV UK

Chantal Chamandy’s You Want Me catapulted her onto the American Pop Charts at #9 on the newest R&R Chart. Chantal shot her video in Marrakech this past May and it’s gotten heavy rotation on MTV-UK and in Lebanon on the LBC. You Want Me explodes on the scene with her first album Love Needs You - just released from Inde label Nine-Muse. You could be drawn to her stage presence, her charm, beauty, and sex appeal. Like a moth to a flame you’ll be mesmerized by the flirtatious rhythms that rise from the Nile, tales of love, and pulsing dance that permeate from this album.

Each song on the Album is a celebration of her heritage and birthplace, Alexandria, Egypt. The album is capped with a stunning rendition of Salma Ya Salma, a tribute to DALIDA. Chantal is so diverse, so soul satisfying that your ears and your heart will simply demand more.

Loves Needs You is a buffet of vocal control, sensuality, and uninhibited passion and the timeless pursuit of love. You Want Me, made it all the way to #5 on the British Dance Chart and # 1 on the DJ charts. Feels Like Love, takes you on a journey in search of this ever-elusive elemental potion. Still, Chantal’s slips from English, to Spanish, to French and Arabic and back; reflecting with her unique lyrical voice that is simply an extension of her Egyptian and Lebanese heritage. A child of Alexandria, Egypt, she grew up in Montreal, Canada.

Chantal’s mega hit, Feels Like Love was featured on NBC’s popular soap opera Passions this past May, a sign of Chantal’s embrace by the American public. Every song on her new album is at once fun, energetic, thoughtful and inspired making them memorable, even hum-able. Rather than adhering to a stylized album (a la jazz, ballads or American standards from rock icons), Chantal mixes emotions to ultimately translate a pure sense of what she needs to say to her audience and what her audience needs to hear. Rhythm and instruments serve as her voice for sensory texture, while lyrics, tone and phrasing recite the poetry of her heart.

FMQB wrote: “Layered tastefully with Middle Eastern melodies, “You Want Me” showcases Chantal Chamandy’s exotic influences and dynamic vocals centered around a driving, up-tempo backdrop.”

Love Needs You is a passionate embrace of Chantal’s musical diversity, and a seeming culmination and confirmation of her life and the fine lines of sorrow and joy, passion and love. Quite simply, Chantal is her music.

Check out www.chantalchamandy.com .

Well that's a nice little bit of PR isn't it? Work for a record company?

In the MMM forum please!

I actually work for Chantal directly and thought the good news is a bit refreshing considering everything going on and yes PR too...

My apologies if I posted this in an inappropriate place...what is the MMM forum?

The Movies, Music and Mutil-media section, scroll down a bit on the front page!

I'm sending you a PM please check it, need some info!

Pakistani held in Italy for "honour killing"
Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:51 PM IST

ROME (Reuters) - Italian police arrested a Pakistani immigrant on Monday for the murder of his 20-year-old daughter, who investigators believe was killed because her family disapproved of her relationship with an Italian man.

Police found the body of Hina Saleem on Saturday, buried in the vegetable garden at the back of her family house near the northern city of Brescia. Her throat had been slit and her relatives appeared to have left in a hurry.

Hina's Italian boyfriend, with whom she had recently moved in, reported her missing on Thursday after she went to visit her family.

Locals told police her father, Mohammed Saleem, resented her relationship with the man.

"He has decided to exercise his right to remain silent. He seemed quite calm and aware of the accusations that are being levelled at him," Saleem's lawyer, Alberto Bordone, told Sky Italia television.

Italian news agencies said the woman's uncle was also being questioned.

The case has added to a heated political debate about immigration, just days after the centre-left government relaxed rules for foreigners to gain Italian citizenship.

Centre-right lawmaker Antonio Briguglio said on Monday the government should reconsider its plan, while a member of Prodi's Union coalition said the murder showed the left's "rather idyllic idea of multi-ethnic integration" had its limits.

Italy was shocked earlier this year by a revival of the Mafia's own tradition of "honour killing", when the nephew of a Mafia boss in the southern region of Calabria shot his sister for "dishonouring" the family by having a baby out of wedlock.

in.today.reuters.com . . .




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16 Replies to Pakistani held in Italy for "honour killing"


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By UnchosenNickName Comments: 7073, member since Tue Oct 09, 2001

On Thu Aug 17, 2006 08:40 PM


berlu, any comments?

(le bump)
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By A_Thinking_Man Comments: 8985, member since Fri May 16, 2003

On Thu Aug 17, 2006 08:40 PM


freaking pakis, goddam Untermenschen.
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By FrenchAreToast Comments: 5685, member since Mon Aug 18, 2003

On Thu Aug 17, 2006 08:41 PM


Could have been worse. She could have had a French boyfriend.
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By UnchosenNickName Comments: 7073, member since Tue Oct 09, 2001

On Thu Aug 17, 2006 08:46 PM


Could have been worse. She could have had a French boyfriend.


As a muslum her fate was done.


Her throat had been slit and her relatives appeared to have left in a hurry.


French, american, paki or spaghetti, same end.