{"id":29533,"date":"2019-06-28T14:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29533"},"modified":"2019-06-28T14:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:59:29","slug":"celina-aged-16-signs-to-virgin-emi-uks-largest-record-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/celina-aged-16-signs-to-virgin-emi-uks-largest-record-label\/","title":{"rendered":"CELINA aged 16 signs to Virgin EMI, UK\u2019s largest record label"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising star CELINA signs as the youngest British \/ Australian of Indian, Maltese and English heritage by UK\u2019s largest record labels, Virgin EMI \/ Colaba \/ Straight Forward Recordings.<\/span><\/p>\n

CELINA first made her mark with Aussy star Guy Sebastian where she performed at his prestigious annual Christmas show to thousands in Sydney aged only 12, becoming the youngest solo artist to ever perform at this showpiece calendar event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She caught international attention when Chris Gayle (cricketer) posted her video over social media and it went viral! Celina\u2019s family are big cricket fans and it was through this passion her debut single \u2018We are One\u2019 was born.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are One has been the Indian Cricket anthem for this year\u2019s ICC Cricket World Cup and has been played in the stadium and live on TV at all Indian matches.<\/span><\/p>\n

CELINA\u00a0\u00a0has created a real buzz in a short space of time with her eye catching social media covers and having released \u2018Say Yes\u2019 in collaboration with Indian electronic producer, DJ SHAAN.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CELINA is set to be Europe\u2019s answer to Ariana Grande and has a very international sound and is prepared for a string of major releases in 2019. She explains why she decided on signing with Virgin EMI UK and what the future holds;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Being from Australia its always been a big dream to sign to a major record label in the UK. A lot of the music and artists we listen to and look up to down under, comes from the UK. To be on the same label as the likes of Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry amongst many others who\u2019s achievements I look up to is just surreal, and I feel privileged.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Joint statement provided by CELINA\u2019s Manager’s & A+Rs, Dani Stephenson & Vishal Patel:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCELINA is a huge talent and personality. She is one of the most exciting young artists that we have seen in a long while and it is a pleasure to put such a deal together for her. We believe Virgin EMI share our global vision when it comes to CELINA and we look forward to working with them to develop her career further and fulfil her immense potential\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rising star CELINA signs as the youngest British \/ Australian of Indian, Maltese and English heritage by UK\u2019s largest record labels, Virgin EMI \/ Colaba \/ Straight Forward Recordings. CELINA first made her mark with Aussy star Guy Sebastian where she performed at his prestigious annual Christmas show to thousands in Sydney aged only 12, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}