Egypt’s latest singing sensation Ruby is living in a state of extreme stress after finding out that musician Ahmad Al Jabali decided to release an album featuring songs sung by her while she was a member of the band Tattoo during the year 1999. The singer stressed that the album will negatively affect her career and the success she has acquired.
According to the London based weekly, Laha, the singer also faces more problems with the Egyptian Syndicate’s decision of forbidding her to sing in her upcoming film “Talat Warakat Kotshineh” under the direction of Sharif Sabri, for not being a member of the syndicate. Ruby had already recorded the songs for the film, but they will not be shown during the film.
The Egyptian Censorship Committee has deleted seventeen scenes and three songs from the upcoming film, marking the first time throughout history that the Censorship deletes this many scenes and three out of six songs from any film.
Dr. Madkour Thabet, head of the Censorship, announced that he supports the decision of the member of the Censorship especially after he watched the film himself and considered it harmful to public safety and social values. On his part, Sharif stressed that he will not accept the decision of the Censorship, especially since this much deletion of the film looses any real meaning it may have.
Sharif announced that he will not give in and will fight the decision and take it to a higher authority, demanding that a new committee watches the film once more to give a final verdict on what is necessary to delete. Sabri was previously forced to make major alteration on the script to convince the censorship to give it permission for screening.
Ruby has announced that despite all the commotion regarding her style whether while singing or acting, she does not cross the lines of dignity. Ruby revealed that since she appeared on the scenes Egyptian singers can compete with Lebanese on all levels even in their outer appearance.
The singer added that a singer who is seductive in style does not necessarily imply that she is disrespectful, but on the contrary, it is through this style her popularity grew. The extent, which Ruby went to prove her ability to compete with Lebanese singers, has led to her banning from her university and numerous lawsuit against her from the Egyptian music syndicate.
Recently, Ruby faced a new lawsuit against her, this time by music distributor Ahmad Al Jabali demanding 5 million Egyptian pounds in compensation from the singer. Ahmad stressed that Ruby had signed a contract with him in 1997 giving him full rights to all her entertainment activities, and making any other contract signed since that period invalid.
The contract has been automatically extended for five years, based on a condition in the contract that states an extension for five years will be made unless one of the two parties states otherwise. Neither Ruby nor Ahmad had requested otherwise and so the extension occurred giving Ahmad rights to Ruby’s activities until the year 2009. –Albawaba.com
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