{"id":1288,"date":"2017-10-30T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anokhiawards.com\/?page_id=1288"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:46:18","slug":"roveena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anokhiawards.com\/talent-2017\/roveena\/","title":{"rendered":"Roveena"},"content":{"rendered":"[mk_page_section bg_color=”#e01483″ bg_position=”center top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_stretch=”true” video_color_mask=”rgba(0,0,0,0.5)” video_opacity=”0″ min_height=”80″ js_vertical_centered=”true” padding_top=”20″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h1″ color=”#ffffff” size=”60″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”50″ size_phone=”40″ font_weight=”400″ txt_transform=”uppercase” margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Montserrat” font_type=”google” align=”center”]Talent[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][vc_row fullwidth=”true”][vc_column][mk_divider style=”thin_solid” thin_single_color=”#54548a” thickness=”10″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”0″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1508212551592{padding-top: 60px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-left: 40px !important;background-color: #101e53 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1284″ img_size=”400×400″ css_animation=”left-to-right”][mk_social_networks size=”x-large” style=”circle” icon_color=”#ffffff” icon_hover_color=”#de0081″ align=”center” facebook=”https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RoveenaMusic\/” twitter=”https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoveenaMusic” rss=”http:\/\/www.roveena.ca\/” instagram=”https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/roveenamusic\/” youtube=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RoveenaGMusic”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][mk_fancy_title color=”#ffffff” size=”28″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”25″ size_phone=”20″ font_weight=”100″ letter_spacing=”1″ margin_top=”5″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Maven+Pro” font_type=”google” responsive_align=”left”]Roveena<\/strong>[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1509372690261{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter[\/vc_column_text][mk_fancy_title color=”#ffffff” size=”28″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”25″ size_phone=”20″ font_weight=”100″ letter_spacing=”1″ margin_top=”5″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Maven+Pro” font_type=”google” responsive_align=”left”]Testimonials<\/strong>[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1509377844208{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]\u201cI am extremely proud to be included in ‘Hotstar Presents The ANOKHI List 2017\u2019\u00a0 – to share this honour with fellow creators, innovators and talented individuals from around the\u00a0globe is truly a special\u00a0privilege.\u00a0I would like to\u00a0thank the ANOKHI Team for recognizing the achievements within the South Asian\u00a0Community. Thank you for inspiring us to continue to follow our dreams fearlessly!”<\/p>\n

~ Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter, Roveena<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cA stunning new voice that needs to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

~ CBC Music<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][mk_fancy_title color=”#ffffff” size=”28″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”25″ size_phone=”20″ font_weight=”100″ letter_spacing=”1″ margin_top=”5″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”Maven+Pro” font_type=”google” responsive_align=”left”]Bio<\/strong>[\/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1509372867077{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]She was just 18 months old when she started singing along to ABBA and her family knew that she was a star in the making.<\/p>\n

Singer-songwriter, Roveena\u2019s early musical inspirations were the three leading divas of our time \u2014 Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. She studied classical piano and composition at the University of Waterloo, but chose to pursue a career in human resources. Even though she was working towards a traditional vocation, she couldn\u2019t deny what her heart truly wanted, and that was to sing.<\/p>\n

Navigating the incoming hurdles that dotted her path, fueled her ambition. Rejection was painful and at times crippled Roveena\u2019s drive to succeed, but she knew that if she quit, her soul would suffer.<\/p>\n

She got her big break after posting a video of herself singing Etta James\u2019s classic song \u201cAt Last\u201d on YouTube in 2010. She landed a guest spot to perform on CityTV and Roveena dazzled, turning a one-minute segment into eight minutes and launching her career.<\/p>\n

Her first EP, \u201cLove Will Light The Way\u201d (2014), received critical acclaim and garnered attention from various media outlets, including glowing reviews from CBC Radio and Cheek <\/em>magazine. A year later, Roveena, who is the brand ambassador for Lymphoma Canada, released the song\u2019s accompanying music video on World Lymphoma Day, to help raise awareness for the fifth most common cancer in Canada, which her father has also been diagnosed with.<\/p>\n

Roveena sang the national anthem at two Toronto Blue Jays game and an NFL game, boosting her profile in Canada and globally.\u00a0 \u00a0Over the past year, Roveena has been taking the music scene by storm. Her recent cover of Shawn Mendes\u2019s \u201cStitches\u201d, reached over 140,000 spins on Spotify and she boasts a whopping 350,000 streams on Spotify in total. She\u2019s garnered eight million views in a YouTube video collaboration Billi Bunni to use her song as the soundtrack for their Fifty Shades Darker<\/em> Fan Trailer and she was also named Best Pop Artist at the 2017 Toronto Independent Music Awards.<\/p>\n

Roveena released her latest album Fearless<\/em>, this past October and is currently working on a North America and European tour.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1509380979722{margin-bottom: 30px !important;}”]Burning Room – Roveena (Official Music Video)<\/strong><\/p>\n