Prema Lucas (better known simply as Prema) was born in

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. Educated in Australia, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts from

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, Prema started her singing career busking and singing in pubs. Rozlan Aziz of R.A.P showed a keen interest in Prema's career upon her return to Malaysia and she was invited to perform as a guest artiste at the Ikhlas concert in Malaysia at Merdeka to 45,000 people. Prema was then signed to

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(Malaysia) where she started work on her self-titled debut album, ''Prema''. Her first single, "Alive Again" was released in 1997 which resulted in her first music video for the song. Her second music video was released in 1998 for the track "Oblivion". This album was nominated for four AIM awards in Malaysia. In 1999, Prema left Malaysia and

to relocate to England, where she spent time writing for Warner Chappell (Malaysia). In 2008, Prema began work on her second album under her own record label, MoreReverb.com. The album entitled ''In Fusion'', released in early 2009, was written and produced by Prema, except for the guitar parts which the Motown guitarist Wah Wah Watson produced and arranged himself. This album aksi features

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(

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), Luis Perdomo, Damian Erskine and Bashiri Johnson.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prema Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Malaysian women singers Malaysian musicians Malaysian people of Indian descent Malaysian Christians Warner Music Group artists 20th-century Malaysian women singers