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Francissca Peter, or Fran as
she is affectionately known, has enjoyed a fruitful and distinguished
musical career in Malaysia with over twenty No. 1 hits in the local
music charts and the title of "Best Female Vocalist" for
five consecutive years. This year, 2006, Fran embraces and celebrates
her 27th anniversary as an Artiste / Singer / Composer and Lyricist.
In 1990, with 3 Platinums discs
and Gold discs to her name and numerous awards, Fran set off for
the United States of America to widen her horizons internationally.
During her two years in Los Angeles, Fran had the opportunity to
work with various artists including Jazz Fusion pianist Brian Simpson,
Sam Simms, Michael Winans of the gospel group "The Winans",
Vassal Benford, Kirk Whalum, Scott Maio and Himalaya. She also appeared
as guest vocalist on Jazz Saxophonist Cal Bennett's album "Stolen
Moments" singing "Liberian Girl", "Jazziz Magazine"
and "Bre Magazine" in the USA called her vocals "A
Lush Standout, An Ingenious Outing and the Most Outstanding Track".
With a perpetual hunger for new
musical experiences and different audiences Fran, who springs from
a multi-ethnic background (father a retired Journalist / Editor
of Sri Lankan and Scottish background with a penchant for Jazz and
Latin American music and a ballad loving Chinese mother), has managed
to blend in culturally to any situation during her extensive travels
and this unique ability has enabled her to achieve a warm and spontaneous
rapport wherever she performs.
With a fluency in English, Cantonese
and Bahasa Malaysia Fran enjoys performing tunes in a wide variety
of languages including English, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese, Mandarin,
Hindi / Tamil, French, Italian, German, Latin and Spanish.
Among the countries that Fran has
performed in are Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, Maldives,
Germany, Oman, Spain, United Kingdom, Mainland China, Hong Kong
and the United States of America. She has worked with numerous musicians
in London including Peter Churchill, Mark Fletcher, Tim Wells and
David Lim of Yokohama Sinners. On the home front, she has worked
with maestro Michael Veerapen, Lewis Pragasam, Khairil, Dato' Mokhzani
- RTM's (National TV) Musical Director, Gary Gideon, David Yee,
Mac Chew, Paul Candelaria - the most renowned bassist in Hong Kong,
Adonis V De Jesus, Singaporean bassist - Tony Makarome Yue, Greg
Lyons and Jose Thomas, to name a few.
Fran has also lent her voice to
numerous Jingles - Embracing Proton (The National Car Company) -
Fran was the very first Proton Girl and took stage at the National
Grand Parade launching the 1st ever Malaysian Car, Malaysian Airlines
(The National Carrier) with the theme song "To Know Malaysia
is To Love Malaysia" and the ever-popular local favourite,
considered a second national anthem, "Setia". Other commercial
credits number those for McDonalds, Nescafe, Kentucky Fried Chicken,
Carlsberg, recently, Honda and many others.
Along the path of her musical journey,
Fran has performed for many distinguished guests, a list which includes
members of the Malaysian Royalty, Federal and State Ministers, The
Sultan of Brunei, numerous Ambassadeurs and "Captains of
Industry".
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