Despite the big wave of criticism that arose after her first experience in acting, Lebanese singer Nicole Saba decided to release her first musical album without her original group [The Four Cats].
According to the London based daily, Al-Quds Al-Arabi Nicole revealed that she is not a singer but rather a performer, which means that she only sings songs that go with her vocal abilities. She also describes her voice as warm and without any dissonance adding that Lebanese singers Alissa and Nawal Al Zoughbi do the same thing and they don’t belong to the old school of singing and only count on fast tunes that make people dance.
About her cooperation with producer Muhsin Jabr, Nicole said that it was by chance when she met him in an event and he told her that he was looking for new talents and then she sang for him and he liked her voice very much deciding to produce her first album.
Nicole had started from scratch stressing that all international singers had hard times before they became celebrities and she is not an exception. Nicole sees that she made herself more known since she left the Four Cats, because at that time she was one of a team and was not the center of the attention. She added that if any of the girls want to leave the band no one would care because another girl will soon come to fill in. but now she had her own album and her own fans and no one could replace her.
About performing hot scenes in the movies, Nicole explained that this was not the reason why Lebanese and Tunisian actresses have parts in Egyptian movies, stressing that many Egyptian actresses performed in many movies that included seductive and intimate scenes like Hala Shiha, Hanan Turk, and Muna Shalabi.
Recently, Saba has apologized to prominent Egyptian actress Yusra for not being able to accept the offer to star in her new film “Kalam Fil Hub” (Love Talk), due to the fact that she is occupied with her first solo album, which she released recently. Sources revealed that the real reason Nicole turned down Yusra was because she is looking for a film where she plays the leading role and one that does not depend on her looks or her being seductive.
Nicole stressed that she is looking for a role that will bring out her real acting talents and dose not depend on her outside appearance. She added that the role in Yusra’s film will not achieve her goal and so she decided to turn it down.
It was added that negotiations between Nicole and the makers of the film did not succeed due to the fact that the singer/actress demanded that alterations be made to the script to make her role more of a major rather than just a minor one. –Albawaba.com
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