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Shakila Karim
Shakila Karim ( bn, শাকিলা করিম; born 13 November 1997) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, known professionally as Shakila K. Early life Karim was born at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, London, England and is of Bangladeshi descent. Karim's parents are Karim Ullah (born 1977) and Sultana Parvin, and she has a younger sister, Sonia. Karim attended Gatehouse School in Bethnal Green. She received speech therapy to help her speak. Yet she was able to sing nursery rhymes perfectly. At around the same time, she started playing her first musical instrument, the violin, when she was a toddler and went on to learn the recorder, piano, ukulele and drums. When she was 11 years old, Karim's family moved out of the East End to Hertfordshire and she started her secondary education at Hockerill Anglo-European College in Bishop's Stortford. She started taking singing lessons from the first term and, in her first year at the school, she pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitechapel
Whitechapel is a district in East London and the future administrative centre of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a part of the East End of London, east of Charing Cross. Part of the historic county of Middlesex, the area formed a civil and ecclesiastical parish after splitting from the ancient parish of Stepney in the 14th century. It became part of the County of London in 1889 and Greater London in 1965. Because the area is close to the London Docklands and east of the City of London, it has been a popular place for immigrants and the working class. The area was the centre of the London Jewish community in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Whitechapel, along with the neighbouring district of Spitalfields, were the location of the infamous 11 Whitechapel murders (1888–91), some of which were attributed to the mysterious serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. In the latter half of the 20th century, Whitechapel became a significant settlement for the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uttlesford
Uttlesford is a local government district in Essex, England. Its council is based in the market town of Saffron Walden. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was 79,443. Other notable settlements include Great Dunmow, Elmdon, Stebbing, Stansted Mountfitchet, Thaxted, Debden, Little Chesterford and Felstead among other settlements. History Its name is derived from its location within the ancient Hundred (county subdivision), hundred of Uttlesford,Open Domesday: Hundred of Uttlesford. Accessed 6 January 2022. usually spelled ''Vdelesford'' Open Domesday: Saffron Walden. Accessed 6 January 2022. or ''Wdelesford'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network is a British Asian radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station's target audience is people "with an interest in British Asian lifestyles", especially British Asians between the ages of 18 and 34. The station has production centres at Broadcasting House in London and The Mailbox in Birmingham. The station broadcasts mainly in English, but has retained Sunday evening shows in South Asian languages. The Asian Network covers only the Indian subcontinent, with the rest of the continent – such as Japan and China – not covered by the station. The station's output consists largely of music and talk programmes. On Fridays at 4:00 p.m., the station broadcasts ''The Official Asian Music Chart'', compiled by the Official Charts Company and based on sales and streams across a seven-day period. According to RAJAR, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 476,000 with a listening share of 0.3% as of September 2022. History Origins as a region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boishakhi Mela
The Boishakhi Mela ( bn, বৈশাখী মেলা, Boishakhi Mela, Fair of Boishakh) is a Bengali celebration ( mela) which takes place outside of Bangladesh. It is celebrated by the Bangladeshi diaspora in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada as well as many other countries with significant Bangladeshi populations. In London, it takes place across the area of Banglatown in Tower Hamlets. The festival runs through Brick Lane to Weavers Fields and Allen Gardens in Bethnal Green. The event is a celebration of the Bengali New Year, with musical and cultural events held. It is the largest open-air Asian festival in Europe and the largest Bengali festival outside of Bangladesh. After the Notting Hill Carnival, it is the second-largest street festival in the United Kingdom attracting over 80,000 visitors from across the country. Although the Bengali New Year falls on 14/15 April (Pohela Boishakh in the Bengali calendar), the festival is held in the second weekend of May o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the group stage in women's football, began on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, followed by the opening ceremony on 27 July. 10,768 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the 2012 Olympics. Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and the then- London mayor Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore on 6 July 2005, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid, and Paris. London became the first city to host the modern Olympics three times, having previously hosted the Summer Games in 1908 and 1948. Construction for the Games involved considerable redevelopment, with an emphasis on sustainability. The mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thank You For The Sunshine
"Thank You for the Sunshine" is a song recorded by English singer Shakila Karim. It was released on 8 December 2012. Background and composition "Thank You for the Sunshine" is the fifth single by Shakila Karim. The song is dedicated to everyone who helped to make the London 2012 Olympic Games successful. References External links * 2012 singles 2012 songs British pop songs Shakila Karim songs {{2010s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Summer Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Games as organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). They were the first Summer Paralympics to be hosted by London, and the first hosted solely by Great Britain; the English village of Stoke Mandeville co-hosted the 1984 Games with Long Island, New York after its original host, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, withdrew due to financial issues. In 1948, the village hosted the Stoke Mandeville Games—the first organised sporting event for athletes with disabilities, and a precursor to the modern Paralympic Games—to coincide with the opening of the 1948 Olympics in London. Organisers expected the Games to be the first Paralympics to achieve mass-market appeal, fuelled by continued enthusiasm over Great B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Are You All Ready
"Are You All Ready" is a song recorded by English singer Shakila Karim. It was released on 28 August 2012. Background and composition "Are You All Ready" is the fourth single by Shakila Karim. The song was intended to inspire the athletes competing in London 2012 Paralympics Games. References External links * 2012 singles 2012 songs British pop songs Shakila Karim songs {{2010s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Help For Heroes
Help for Heroes (H4H) is a British charity which provides lifelong recovery support to British Armed Forces service personnel who have been wounded or injured in the line of duty, and to their families, originally only since 11 September 2001, though this restriction was subsequently removed. The charity has supported more than 25,000 individuals since 2007, through its physical, psychological, financial, sports, fellowship, and welfare support services. It was founded in 2007 by Bryn Parry and his wife Emma, after they visited soldiers at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham. H4H has attracted high-profile trustees and patrons, and has the support of the Ministry of Defence. It has also attracted support from national newspapers in the United Kingdom, such as '' The Sun'' and ''The Sunday Times'' who made H4H one of the beneficiaries of their Christmas appeal in 2007, raising £674,000 for the charity. History Help for Heroes was co-founded by Bryn Parry and his wife Emma Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroes (Shakila Karim Song)
"Heroes" is a song recorded by English singer Shakila Karim. It was released on 28 November 2011. Background and composition "Heroes" is the third single by Shakila Karim. The song was co-written by Karim and her father, Karim Ullah, with Karim putting together the melody to accompany her father's lyrics. She played the piano on the recording and created the vocal ideas, including the chorus and harmonies for the song. The song was released in aid of the Help for Heroes charity which supports the rehabilitation of injured British service personnel from conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan. It was recorded and produced free of charge in November 2011. A video was produced by Big Buoy TV, intercutting Karim's performance with Ministry of Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gone Too Soon (Shakila Karim Song)
"Gone Too Soon" is a song recorded by English singer Shakila Karim. It was released on 24 October 2011. Background and composition "Gone Too Soon" is the second single by Shakila Karim. The song was written by Karim's father, Karim Ullah, and is a tribute to singers who have died young, including Amy Winehouse, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday and Kurt Cobain Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American musician who served as the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona .... References External links * 2011 singles 2011 songs British pop songs List songs Shakila Karim songs {{2010s-pop-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Let It Go
"Just Let It Go" is a song recorded by English singer Shakila Karim. It was released on 4 July 2011. Background and composition "Just Let It Go" is the debut sing by Shakila Karim. The song was written by Karim's father, Karim Ullah, and recorded at High Barn music studios in Great Bardfield, Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G .... References External links * 2011 singles 2011 songs Electronic songs Shakila Karim songs {{2010s-electronic-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
