Malaysian singer Shila Amzah fell short of winning Malaysian singing competition One In A Million in 2008.
Last year, she was eliminated from another Malay singing competition, Mania, a week before the final concert in May last year.
She finally broke her unlucky streak last year when she won the Chinese reality singing competition, Asian Wave, in Shanghai. The regional contest for professional Asian singers included contenders like K-pop boybands Teen Top, ZE:A and Cross Gene.
Shila had performed her favourite Mandarin song Forever Love despite being barely able to string proper sentences in Mandarin. Now, not only is she a successful artiste in Malaysia and Singapore, she is also making waves in China.
But she initially refused to join Asian Wave.
The 23-year-old Shanghai-based singer told LOUD when she was in Singapore on Sunday: “I was sick of being in reality shows because I didn’t have good experiences, but my manager promised me it would be an amazing journey. I went without expectations of winning.”
