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A shining example

Ever get the feeling certain people are just meant to be famous?

Marina And The Diamonds could well fall into that bracket.

While the name suggests a band, it is in fact just one person, 24-year-old Marina Diamandis - and that’s where the star quality begins.

With a surname that means ‘diamonds’ in Greek, Marina was bound to have an interest in showbusiness.

“I knew from when I was nine I was going to do this. I knew,” she begins, without a hint of pretentiousness.

Marina was born to a Greek dad and Welsh mum in a small town in Wales.

“I moved about a lot when I was young,” she adds. “I moved to Greece when I was young, then back to Wales, then back to Greece for two years when I was 16. Then I moved back to London.”

Back in England, Marina attended four universities in as many years before finally deciding on trying to realise her dream of becoming a singer.

As star stories go, so far, so good - an exotic, almost nomadic childhood and a clear desire not to conform.

This is where Marina’s rise to fame takes an even more unusual route when she responded to an advert from Virgin records who were trying to put together a boy band.

“I dressed up as a boy and went along to the record label,” says Marina, laughing.

“They wouldn’t let me in, funnily enough, but I did leave a letter and a photo saying I was amazing and was going to take over the world.”

Amazingly, a label executive contacted Marina soon after and asked her in for an audition, but she was so nervous when it came down to it she could barely sing.

“I just felt sick,” she says.

Such naked ambition informs much of Marina’s debut, ‘The Family Jewels’.

Take ‘Oh No!’ for example, with its opening lines of “Don’t do love, don’t do friends, I’m only after success.

Don’t need a relationship, I’ll never loosen my grip.”

On first listen it’d be easy to assume it was Marina mocking her peers for their ambitious, ruthless nature, but in actual fact, it’s much closer to home than that.

“That’s definitely a part of me, but I hate that part, it’s not healthy,” she admits. “I think every song on the album is part fantasy and part truth. I didn’t want people thinking I don’t know who I want to be, and that song expresses that,” she adds.

“It’s just about fear of feeling that you’re not going to achieve the things you want, and that you’ll do anything to get there, no matter what.”

For all the inevitable comparisons critics will make between Marina and the similarly named Florence And The Machine and the original British female maverick Kate Bush, Marina’s latest album ‘The Family Jewels’ doesn’t particularly sound like either.

“I think if I sound like anyone it’d be Enya,” says Marina with a wry grin.

“I didn’t listen to any music until I was 19 really, but my mum has always loved Enya.

My dad is just into classical Greek music and scary choral church singing. That was my foundation. I feel like a blank slate. I don’t really know anything about books, or politics, or music or movies. I don’t know where this music has come from.

“All I know is I want to be a pop artist, I want as many people to hear my music as possible, but I don’t want to create something that’s already been done before. My goal has always been to be experimental.”

Out and about
It’s a busy weekend all round for music fans, whatever the flavour. Thursday’s most definitely the night for dance music fans. House DJ Sandy Rivera will be entertaining the masses at OCEAN CLUB Dubai at the Sheraton Hotel and DJ Judge Jules will be on the decks at Horizon lounge at the Habtoor Grand on Jumeirah Beach.

For details or table reservations for Sandy Rivera call 050 688 3623. For Judge Jules, call 050 518 8946.

Next, there’s the Gulf Bike Expo where Nickelback will be performing on Friday and UK oldies Status Quo on Saturday. Visit www.gulfbikeexpo.com for details and tickets. And if you’re still not tired of partying, on Monday night Rachel Calladine and The Fairplay Project (below) will be playing at The Fridge in Al Quoz. Rachel, an internationally accomplished jazz vocalist previously fronted jazz-rap group Us3.

For details call 04 347 7793 or visit www.thefridgedubai.com

You could also head down to the Jamjar to catch the latest in the Mahmovies series.

The evening will begin with a musical performance followed by the screening of ‘Let’s Get Lost’ - an Oscar nominated documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.

Check out thejamjardubai.com. And don’t forget the free tribute artist performances down at Burjuman. From Thursday to Saturday a Beyonce tribute artist will be taking to the stage at the mall while Robbie Williams and Britney Spears acts will also be performing for free later this month.

Sorce:http://www.7days.ae

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