Unoosha

Unoosha Photoshoot for Lavish magazine. Phototaken by Funkographic Mariyam Unoosha (born 6 October 1985), known mononymously as Kiddy, is a Maldivian female singer and songwriter. Her parents were in the 90s famous band "Olympians". She has won many awards and has performed in various high caliber shows in Maldives and abroad.

Life and career Early life Unoosha was born on 6 October 1985 in Malé to Shafeega Abdul Latheef, a playback singer and Imaadh Ismail, a musician. Owing to the influence of her parents, she started singing at a young age. She attended Aminiya School and during her time there, won 1st place in the Inter School Music Competition and became the first ever female vocalist to win the competition 3 times.

After a year since she finished her O’levels, she took up an offer from a local music band called Amazon Jade and worked with the band for 4 years. Now with over 100 studio recordings to her name, many albums which release in Maldives have songs by Unoosha. Since then she has hosted a music show for kids for 2 seasons titled Lets Sing With Kiddy. She has also performed at Mariah Carey's wedding renewal ceremony at Reethi Rah resort.

Bollywood career Unoosha made her bollywood debut with the 2012 Pooja Bhatt-directed erotic thriller film Jism 2. She got the chance while she was in India at the South Asian Film Festival, which was held in Goa. Bhatt heard Unoosha sing at the festival and felt that there was something unique in her voice. Pooja then met the singer and offered her to sing for her film and Unoosha readily agreed. The song titled "Hey Walla" was composed by Abdul Basit Sayeed, and written by Unoosha herself along with Sayeed.

Unoosha recorded her second Bollywood song along with Ali Azmat and KK, for the upcoming Jism franchise. The song titled "Kahaan Se Karen Shuru" is composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee. This would be the first Bollywood song Unoosha recorded in Hindi.

Discography

Feature Film

Television

Non-film songs

Accolades Unoosha who is the only singer who has been an official ambassador of an international brand Nescafé and the local ambassador of Maldives leading telecom company Dhiraagu and the branded Eyewear company Eyecare.