Finally here the Album “In this life or the next” Posted: Oct 28, 2007

Naree’s latest 6 Track Album a masterpiece must have Album Moving and emotional, part of the income of the Album will go to Naree’s “Pick Life” in support of the Teen Cancer Trust. www.teenagecancertrust.org

AllBiz Music Showcase 12 Oct Posted: Sep 2, 2007

Naree October, 12 2007 at AllBiz Music Showcase @ CBR'S http://www.allbizeg.com/, Columbus, Ohio Cost : 10 See Naree and her entire band play live infront of A&R people and Record Scouts. Tickets are only $10 and there will be other bands, a great treat.

Opening For Pink in Dubai Posted: Sep 2, 2007

Naree September, 5 2007 at Opening For Pink! Dubai! Not Available , Dubai, na Cost : AED 170.00 - 600.00 Age: Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Description: The Middle East is getting a shot of Hard Rock irreverence with the announcement of P!nk as the Dubai Ambassadors of Rock act. The rock princess will perform at the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on September 5th as part of Hard Rock’s Ambassadors of Rock Tour. Enter now for your chance to see the show live! Or visit showbizme.com to purchase tickets. Telephone: +971-4-399-2888 Email: bianca@hrcdubai.ae

NAREE IN NORTH YORK MIRROR! Posted: Jun 15, 2006

Bout with cancer inspires survivor's recording career Compared to Avril Lavigne, teen will sing at Relay for Life FANNIE SUNSHINE Jun. 9, 2006 At first, the stomach cramps were light and sporadic, not meriting great concern. But as time progressed, so did the pain, and 13-year-old Naree found herself skipping school and shortly after her 14th birthday, the cramping was so intense she couldn't walk upright. A CT scan in her homeland of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates revealed a tumor in the teenager's stomach. After a five hour operation with the intent of removing the growth, doctors were caught by surprise by the tumor's size and could not remove it because of the close proximity to Naree's liver. But doctors were able to determine the tumor was ovarian cancer, a rare diagnosis for someone so young. After a brief hospital stay, Naree and her family flew to England, to meet with doctors to decide the next steps. The aspiring singer and classically trained pianist made sure to bring her guitar with her. After two operations, four three day chemotherapy sessions, a pulmonary embolism, kidney failure and eight days on a breathing machine, the massive 15.4 pound tumor was removed after a six hour operation, along with her appendix and left ovary. "I am technically in remission and I go for yearly check-ups," said the now 19-year-old, who will perform a one hour set of original music during the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life event June 23 and 24 at E.T. Seaton Park at Don Mills Road and Eglinton Avenue. "I don't know if I can have kids but I'm not worried about that now." Naree, who has recorded two albums, is in Toronto until July in hopes of catching the attention of a major recording label. She drew inspiration for material for her two albums, 'I'm No Fool' and 'Proud', from her battle with ovarian cancer, often referred to as the silent killer, drawing on the dark emotions she would feel while putting on a happy face. "I'm a jolly and upbeat person and this was a way to express my darker side," she said. "I'm very open about it (cancer) and I've never had a problem talking about it. I wrote a lot of material while I was in the hospital." Once Naree was well enough to go home, her father found an ad offering singers recording time in Wales. "We were driving in the country passing a lot of sheep," Naree recalled. "We found a little house and there was a dusty room with expensive recording equipment. We recorded three songs, including 'Love is Immortal', the first song I wrote at 13, and then recorded more tracks." She recorded her second album at the same studio and worked with an American promoter until they parted ways last summer. Now under new representation in Toronto, the singer has performances lined up, including Relay for Life, before she heads to Berklee College of Music in Boston in September. "A lot of people compare me to Avril Lavigne, and I take that as a compliment," said Naree, who will perform O Canada to commence the relay June 23 at 7 p.m., followed by a performance from 11 p.m. to midnight. In addition of focusing on her musical career, Naree also makes pewter and silver pendants for her charity, Pick Life, with 10 per cent of proceeds going to the Teenager Cancer Trust in the United Kingdom. The pendants can be purchased online at www.picklife.nareemusic.com/index.html. "My experiences had to make me grow up quickly," Naree said, adding fans often share with her their own dealings with the disease. "At first people are sad but because I survived people praise me for it and I don't think I'm so special because I'm young and I survived cancer. I'm lucky I survived and I'm happy I survived but I try not to take it for granted. Little things that would upset me before don't bother me now." Amy Linton, fundraising co-ordinator for the Canadian Cancer Society, said $160,000 was raised last year in North York for the Relay for Life, an amount she hopes to see increase to $215,000 this year. The relay consists of 10 individuals per team for the 12 hour, overnight, non-competitive event that celebrates cancer survivors and pays tribute to loved ones. The Relay for Life will kick off at 7 p.m. with the opening ceremonies, followed by a survivor's victory lap. Participants will be treated to outdoor movies, a special children's performance, karaoke, food and live music and singing all night. At 10 p.m., photos of those who lost their lives to cancer will be placed around the track, surrounded by candles, as part of the Luminary Ceremony. "The Relay for Life touches all cancers, from children up to adults," Linton said. Since 1999, the Relay for Life has raised more than $38 million in the fight against cancer. This year in 81 Ontario communities, an estimated 61,000 Relay For Life participants will help raise more than $15 million for cancer research.

Naree's Featured Artisit 3 times on GarageBand.com Posted: May 16, 2006

Due to some really good reveiws on garageband.com, Naree managed to achieve being a Featured Artist with 3 of her songs. First one was "Proud" off of her second album, "Proud" being the title track. Second was the romantic ballad "In Arms" as the acoustic edition and the latest was "This Girl" based on Naree's fisrt experience with the music industry. You can hear all these tracks at www.garageband.com/naree and even read reveiws on what other musicians had to say about it!

Naree Signs with PROTRX Posted: May 16, 2006

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that I have signed a contract today with Protrx © and would like to introduce Christopher Blueman as a new member of the Naree team. C. Blueman is now my official AR. YAY! *Clapping*.

Naree Performs at the Terry Fox Run in Abu Dhabi Posted: Mar 4, 2006

EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT, NAREE IN ACTION! Copy and Paste the link to read the whole story http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/02/14/10018741.html Naree is back in fighting form By Rania Habib, Staff Reporter Life can be ironic; it's hard to imagine experiencing a pulmonary embolism when you have trouble pronouncing the words. Rebecca Londei, or Naree to her fans, is now 18 and you could easily be fooled by her youthful face and super-lively persona that she was just another teenager going through the awkward years. But the singer-songwriter has been through ovarian cancer, surgery, kidney failure, chemotherapy and that pulmonary embolism she charmingly struggled to pronounce. "It was a week after my 14th birthday. They call ovarian cancer the silent killer because the symptoms are very minor until very late," Naree said. "I had a petite figure at the time, but strangely enough I was gaining weight, but more so just on my stomach so it looked like I was pregnant, which is odd because I was only 14. I had a CAT scan, and it was a tumour." Emergency surgery An emergency surgery that night revealed that the seven-kg tumour was so big that it was touching Naree's vital organs, and doctors therefore could not remove it. Naree and her family went to the United Kingdom for treatment, and after the second chemotherapy session her veins collapsed from being prodded too often. The night before her third session she had a pulmonary embolism and remained in intensive care for 10 days. Finally, after surgery that lasted almost seven hours, the watermelon-sized tumour was removed from Naree's little body. It has been four years since that ordeal, and Naree is back in fighting form, pursuing her passion, music. "I didn't really think much about everything that happened, except I expressed a lot of it through my music," says Naree, a Thai name meaning "young lady", Rebecca's middle name. "I think that is how the whole music thing really started to take place. I was writing before I was diagnosed with cancer, but at 14 years old, what do you know about life to sing about?" Obviously when I got sick it gave me something with meaning to sing about. My music became more mature and it wasn't the typical music you would hear from a 14-year-old. My music is very personal and very much based around my life." Pain-tinged voice The classically-trained pianist and self-taught guitarist creates her own kind of pop rock, and sings with a sweet, crystalline, sometimes pain-tinged voice. Her songs alternate between moving ballads and pop-infused fun beats, but her voice is always reminiscent of the likes of Michelle Branch and Lisa Loeb. Naree's lyrics are attention-grabbing, often imbued with disconcerting courage. On the song Blame, the words "I'm not afraid to die 'cause death is the one who ran away from me" offer a glimpse into the darker side of Naree. "When I write, it just comes," she says. "I try to come up with not so obvious lyrics, and I try to put a little wisdom in there. When I try to think of clever lyrics, they come out tacky and clichéd. When I'm not thinking, then it works." Naree's sound has found success both in the UAE and abroad. She plays sets every Wednesdays and Thursdays at a local Starbucks, and also performs at any cancer-related event she hears of. Just last summer, Naree went to the United States for three months and toured the East Coast, promoting her music and playing in local coffee shops. All the money she collects from album or merchandise sales goes to her Pick Life foundation, Naree's cancer foundation. She is also a supporter of the Teenage Cancer Trust in the UK, and sends cheques to them regularly. Here in Abu Dhabi, Naree will perform at the Terry Fox Run for the second year in a row this year. A special Naree compilation made for the Terry Fox event will be sold for Dh15 throughout the day, as well as her previous albums, I'm No Fool, released in 2003, and Proud, released in 2004. Naree stresses that every penny made from her sales goes to charity. Third album Having graduated from high school last May, Naree is currently enjoying a gap year. By the coming September, she will enrol at Berkeley College in Boston to major in music and songwriting. A third album is currently in the works, and Naree already has over 40 songs to choose from. She is taking her time picking and choosing the songs she wants to appear on the third album and wants her third effort to include a little bit of everything. Naree mostly writes from her personal experiences but also likes to write songs based on other people's lives, and is also inspired by things such as literature. One of her upcoming songs, Broken String, was written for a school project revolving around Anne Rice's novel The Violin. Very optimistic As Naree's Heaven In This World comes on softly in the background in the quiet coffee shop where we are chatting, she takes a minute to formulate how she would describe her experience so far. "I would say it's different in a way. I'm sure a lot of other people get cancer as well, so I won't say my life is special. I don't feel angry, I'm not mad that I got sick; I don't resent anyone for it. I'm very positive anyway; I've always been very optimistic. However when I came back from being sick, it made me realise how overdramatic a lot of people can be sometimes." "Especially at the time, when I came back to school, I'd be in class listening to what other people are talking about, girls thinking their lives were ruined because their boyfriends left them or girls who would self-mutilate." "All those things became pointless to me, although I don't know if I hadn't gotten sick if I would have been like that. It just opened my eyes that some things aren't as bad as they seem." "When bad stuff happens, I don't tend to freak out as some people would. I'm more laid back, but don't get me wrong, I still do have my fits!"

Newspaper article Posted: Mar 4, 2006

An interview with Naree in the Emirates Today newspaper on her views about the music industry in the U.A.E! You can check out the link to read the whole story: http://213.132.44.184/emiratestoday/Default.aspx?selpg=172 "JAMMING AWAY WITH NO SIGN OF A CONTRACT" Written by Christopher Sweeney The music industry attracts its fair share of hopefuls looking for their “one-in-a-mil lion” break to superstardom. But despite all its wellstocked music stores, pop radio stations and magazines predicting the next big thing, is the UAE a good place for an English-language artist to clinch a record deal? Singer and guitarist Rebecca Londei is finding out that launching a music career in the Emirates is an uphill struggle.The 18-yearold, born and raised in Abu Dhabi, sings soft rock tunes under the name Naree and has been waiting for a break since carving out her first album I’m No Fool in Wales four years ago. Initially, the only studio she could find in the Emirates to lay down more tracks was fitted with ageing equipment, reminiscent of that in the recently-released Johnny Cash biopic, she jokes. “It was like something from the movie Walk The Line,” says the half-British, half-Thai artist. “You have the reel going round – and that’s analogue, so you’d have to do it over and over again until you get it right.” With no usable studio, Londei says she decided to go shopping, adding: “We’ve got the basic necessities for a reasonable recording at home: microphones, monitors, a mixer, the computer programme. My dad had to use the programme even though he is not a musician.” She kept on laying down tracks there and, upon discovering Dubai’s Rafbani Studios, flew in producer Chris Tew from Wales to work with her “simply because there is no one here to do it”, she says. Recently, the International Music Institute in Abu Dhabi opened a recording studio where Londei produced her second album Proud and is busy working on a third. Despite churning out hours and hours of music, Londei remains dissatisfied with the UAE’s music industry, saying people assume, “if you’re a local artist in the UAE, you couldn’t possibly be any good”. “That’s the way I think agencies and radio stations look at you,” she explains. “Like if you’re good, then why are you here in the UAE?” The teen wannabe’s father, Ronald, doubles as her manager, studio engineer, website designer (www.nareemusic.com) and even assembles promotional packs of CDs and artist information. The businessman says he feels let down by the music industry in the UAE, claiming: “The attitude is pathetic.They will not play you here – they treat you like a fool. Local agents don’t even bother to return your call, it’s embarrassing.” LIMITED AIRPLAY Despite promotional packs landing on the desks of disc jockeys at various stations, Londei’s tunes have only received airplay from DJ Fadi, the breakfast show host on Emirates Radio 2. The angry dad says he resents the “closed-door mentality” of record label employees who refuse to reveal their firm’s address or e-mail. Downcast by her lack of commercial success, Londei says: “It makes me feel stupid as I’m very conscious of what people think of me, so when I call someone once I don’t want to be pushy.” At the other end of the industry, Mathew Johnson, programme director for Dubai Eye 103.8 at the Arabian Radio Network, says the station is a supporter of the local community, and that Dubai is a “fantastic place to foster growth of music with cross-cultural influence”. “Dubai Eye strongly supports local talent and offers more coverage than any other for artists and groups looking to break into the market and gain awareness of their music, not only in English but in any one of the eight languages we broadcast in,” explains Johnson. “Our sister radio stations, which include Dubai 92, the Asian radio station City 101.6 or Al Arabiya 98.9, are also strong supporters of locally developed talent and – as long as it fits within the music policy – the station will include such music in its playlist,” he continues. “My advice to groups wishing to establish themselves in the UAE is not just to approach any radio station randomly, but to understand their target market and look to develop an ongoing relationship with the music director of the radio station where a similar genre of music is played.” LOCAL SIGNINGS Rachel Monk, the international promotions manager for EMI here, says the global record label would consider signing a UAE artist “if the opportunity presented itself” adding she would “not necessarily” be looking for an Emirati performer. She says that she considers a country such as Egypt more likely to produce an example of “regional talent”. Monk’s firm has already signed a number of local UAE artists – but only for traditional Arabic music genres. “We always welcome talent out there to send [samples] to us,” she says. “We may be able to offer some good industry advice and constructive feedback.” However, Londei remains sceptical about the “open door” policy for budding musicians presented by Monk, adding: “I’ve spoken to other local bands and they say the same thing.” A quick search through the internet reveals the teen performer is not alone in her quest for musical fame. A total of 23 UAE acts feature among almost 166,000 independent artists on the website www.garageband.com who are angling to have their music played and reviewed by downloaders. Two further UAE-based musicians had recorded several albums worth of material on the www.broadjam.com site. Discussing the UAE’s talent pool, lecturer Ali Sultan from the Dubai branch of School of Audio Engineering acknowledges that a true musical culture has yet to develop in the Emirates. “I think part of the problem is that you have all these clubs… that always play cheesy music – there is no real themed music,” he says. “I think the people have no inspiration.There are no production studios here. “What is needed is for people who like types of music… to gather where they have the chance to communicate, where you have local bands playing, who inspire each other.” Londei has spent almost five years trying to establish herself on an Abu Dhabi circuit that does not seem to exist – only landing one regular slot at the Starbucks café on Hamdan Street where she has managed to strike a chord with an Arab crowd. “They don’t tell you no, they just say: ‘We’ll get back to you.’ And they walk away,” she says. “You give them the CD and they probably just throw it in the bin or don’t even listen to it. That’s the feeling I get anyway.” R&B maestro Karl Wolf is a rare animal indeed – an artist bred in the UAE who landed a contract with a mainstream label, Universal. The Lebanese musician now lives in Montreal, Canada, after spending 14 formative years developing his musical skills in the Emirates. Wolf shot to fame after writing tunes for the top-selling Frenchlanguage Pop Idol 2003 compilation album. His recent debut album Face Behind The Face has garnered rave reviews from critics and fans. “I definitely think that I wouldn’t have had the chance in Dubai as much as I have done here in North America with my music,” he says. “Dubai is getting there as a world-renowned cosmopolitan city with huge business capabilities, but it is still behind in many industries, especially entertainment.” Londei, her musician buddies, and even Wolf seem to share the view that UAE-based record labels, radio stations, promoters and venues are not that interested in helping homegrown talent. So, the final answer as to whether musical wannabees have got a chance to make it big in the pop business is: maybe – but it will not be easy.

Video Posted: Aug 15, 2005

Video for the song Superhero Made at Sonalysts Studio CT USA. See it at http://www.justenoughtv.com search for Naree. or www.broadjam.com or msn video

Garageband.com Posted: Sep 11, 2005

Track of the Day http://www.GarageBand.com/go/BIL060SC9O