Maher Zain

Beginnings[edit] 

Maher Zain's Lebanese family emigrated to Sweden when he was eight.[3] He finished his tutoring there, picking up a four year certification in Aeronautical Engineering. After college, he entered the music business in Sweden, and in 2005 connected up with the Moroccan-conceived Swedish maker RedOne.[4] When RedOne moved to New York in 2006, Zain soon took after to proceed with his music industry vocation in the United States, creating for craftsmen, for example, Kat DeLuna.[5] 

On returning home to Sweden, he wound up noticeably drew in yet again with his Islamic faith[6] and chose to move far from a vocation as a music maker to wind up plainly an artist/musician of contemporary R&B music with a solid Muslim religious influence.[7] 

Leap forward success[edit] 

In January 2009, Maher Zain started taking a shot at a collection with Awakening Records. His introduction collection, Thank You Allah, with 13 tunes and two extra tracks, was discharged on 1 November 2009 with percussion forms and French adaptations of a few tracks discharged in no time afterwards.[8] 

Zain and Awakening Records effectively utilized web-based social networking, for example, Facebook, YouTube[9] and iTunes to advance tracks from the album.[10][11] In mid 2010 his music immediately accumulated an immense internet following in Arabic-talking and Islamic nations and also among youthful Muslims in western countries.[12] By the finish of 2010, he was the most Googled superstar in Malaysia for that year.[11] Malaysia and Indonesia have been where he has had the most business achievement. The collection Thank You Allah has been ensured different platinum by Warner Music Malaysia and Sony Music Indonesia.[4] It turned into the most astounding offering collection of 2010 in Malaysia.[13] 

Zain sings for the most part in English however has discharged some of his most prevalent melodies in different dialects. The melody "Insha Allah", for instance, is presently accessible in English, French, Arabic, Turkish, Malay and Indonesian renditions. Another tune, "Allahi Allah Kiya Karo" ("Continuously Saying Allah"), is sung in Urdu and highlights the Pakistan conceived Canadian vocalist Irfan Makki.[10] Zain has performed shows far and wide, incorporating into the UK, the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He has fan clubs in a few nations including Malaysia, Egypt, and Morocco.[14] He participated in the judging panel of the Awakening Talent Contest to pick Awakening Records' new star in 2013.[15] 

Coordinated efforts, appearances and awards[edit] 

Maher Zain in a question and answer session at Tangier, Morocco (February 2014) 

In January 2010, Maher Zain won Best Religious Song for 'Ya Nabi Salam Alayka', on Nogoum FM, a noteworthy Middle East standard music station, beating other noticeable vocalists including Hussein Al-Jismi, Mohammed Mounir and Sami Yusuf.[16] 

In March 2011, Maher Zain discharged "Freedom",[10] a melody roused by the occasions and the moves of the general population making part in the Arab Spring. 

Maher Zain was picked as a Muslim Star of 2011 out of an opposition sorted out by Onislam.net.[17] In July 2011 he highlighted on the front of the UK Muslim way of life magazine Emel.[18] 

Zain was highlighted on Irfan Makki's track "I Believe" from his introduction studio collection of the same name.[19] 

Maher Zain has showed up in the 40-scene Indonesian TV dramatization Insya-Allah. The show was disclosed on Malaysian satellite TV station, Astro Oasis and Mustika HD, beginning 17 July 2012, simultaneous with the telecom of the show on Indonesia's SCTV.[20] 

In 2013, he partook in the Colors of Peace venture constituting tunes in light of works by Fethullah Gülen on the collection Rise Up where Maher Zain plays out the track "This Worldly Life".[21][22]