“She’s Baaaaaaack…” Maria’s Return to the Limelight

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on Melody again, a fancy set of commercials invades your screen. Any Melody junkie will have seen them by now. For the past few weeks a short clip of one of Maria’s previous videos shows, either “Elaab” or “Betekdeb Alaya” , plays and then suddenly you hear a loud “STOP!” and you see a brunette in geisha clothing holding a fan. “Maria: We Regaat Tani”. To the casual viewer, this may look like a video clip commercial. Look closely, however, and you see the Melody Music logo at the bottom. Again, any melody junkie will know what this means:

Maria is back, and this time she’s armed with a long-awaited album, not just a video clip.

It is a little-known fact, but as Maria’s provocative videos were being released, she was taking extensive vocal lessons. Maria’s final appearance on television, on a TV appearance with Tony Khalifeh, gave us a preview into Maria’s vocal aspirations. Why the absence in 2006, though, after endless controversial success?

Maria has been pursuing a record company for a whole year. The way Maria left off from 2005, with the cake stepping scandal and numerous lawsuits, nobody wanted to touch her. Not even Mr. Mubarak’s Melody Music who catapulted her to success along with director/singer Jad Choueiri. So Maria peddled her album around the Arab world searching for a distributor. Fortunately for her, the people at Melody have finally changed their minds and Maria will be back on TV screens soon with a new, less provocative image and reportedly much-improved voice.

By guest writer Ahmed
Source : waleg