| Honorific Prefix: | Yang Hormat Dato’ | ||||||||||||
| Sheila Majid | |||||||||||||
| Honorific Suffix: | DIMP | ||||||||||||
| Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|شيلاء مجيد | ||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Shaheila binti Abdul Majid | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 3 January 1965 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia | ||||||||||||
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Dato’ Sheila Majid (born Shaheila binti Abdul Majid; 3 January 1965), is a Malaysian pop singer who is best known for her 1986 song, "Sinaran". Her musical prowess especially in the genre of jazz music has led her to be dubbed as Malaysia's Queen of Jazz.
Sheila Majid was born in Kuala Lumpur, (then in Selangor state), Malaysia on 3 January 1965.[2] Her mother is a native Malay with Mandailing ancestry whose great-great-grandfather was Sutan Puasa, and early settler in Kuala Lumpur. Her father was a Malay of Javanese descent, whose great-grandfather had settled in Malaya after surviving a shipwreck en route to Java from a pilgrimage in Mecca. Her paternal lineage can be traced back to Raden Hussein, whose brother was the first Muslim sultan of Demak; both were princes of Probowo Wijoyo V of Majapahit.[3]
She attended Convent Goodshepherd Kindergarten, Methodist Girls Primary School and Methodist Girls Secondary School, all in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
On 24 October 2008, Sheila became the only local artist to receive the Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang (DIMP) which carries the title of Dato’ in conjunction with the 78th Birthday of the Sultan of Pahang, Sultan Ahmad Shah at the Abu Bakar Palace in Pekan, Pahang.[4]