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SABRINA ALVES: LOCAL SINGER WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD Man’s best friend
Sabrina sings to win LISA LOTTERING
“I still get shy when I hear myself on the radio and I want to switch it off,” she says. Alves, who started singing at the age of abrina Alves from Plattekloof became nine, had her first interaction with singing the first South African-born artist to in the choir. After choir, she started going win an International Portuguese Mu- solo and then later started recording her sic Award in the Best Pop category at the age own music. She says she took formal trainof 17. ing in Parklands, but it became too much beThis award recognises outstanding cause of the back-and-forth travelling. achievement in the music industry by interThe first-year Fedisa student says it is exnational artists of Portuguese ancestry. tremely difficult being a student and having Alves describes this award as the high- a career because time management is really light of her career. difficult. She says her parents “This showed me that no and family are a good support matter how small you might be, system. “Whenever I want to you can do anything. When I give up, they’re always there won the award, I thought to myfor me and say something that self, maybe I do have somemakes everything better. They thing special, she says. are always by my side.” The 18-year-old says she enWhen I’m not busy in studio, joys singing because it comes I like to do window shopping, naturally and whenever she go to the movies and hang out sings, it feels like a weight is be- Sabrina Alves with friends and family who ing lifted from her shoulders. keep me grounded. Her debut single, “Domino”, with producAlves says she enjoys singing different er Armeen Harron, reached number three genres, but loves pop music and has sung a on the 5FM Top 40 South African chart. She lot of covers of popular songs. has also released two new singles, “Make a “I get my music inspiration from Dua Lipa Move” and “Run This Town”. and the 2016 X Factor winner, Louisa JohnThis year Alves also made waves when son,” she says. Mark Stent, SA and international DJ and “I have never thought of doing a competimusic producer, approached her to feature tion like X Factor, but if I had to it would on “Dance With You”, which reached num- be somewhere overseas,” she adds. ber one on the 5FM Top 10 SA dance chart She says she has thought of going overseas for 18 consecutive weeks. This song also because there are more opportunities and it reached number one on the Goodhope FM would be easier to get a foot in the door. chart and number two on Voice of Wits raAlves dreams of becoming an internationdio. al singer in America or England one day. “As a perfectionist, whenever I hear my “There are more opportunities and I would song, I always think of how I would change love to perform in front of crowds. The South the song and think of ways I could improve African industry is very tough and the time it.” is not right for me yet,” she says.
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Thousands of people flocked to the Killarney Motorshow on Sunday where hundreds of cars and more were on display. Imraan Abdol from Thornton and Taariq Mohamed from Ottery, both members of Monster Bullies SA, promoted the American bully dog breed. See more photos on page 8. PHOTO: CECILIA HUME
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