Shakila Mohseni Sedaghat (), known mononymously as Shakila (; born May 3, 1962), is an Iranian singer-songwriter based in San Diego, California. She is an international artist who has performed in various languages including Persian, Kurdish, English, Turkish, Hindi and Spanish. She has won a '' Persian Music Academy Award'' in 2006 and a ''Global Music Award'' in 2015.Global Music Award Winner
Retrieved December 24, 2016 Shakila has released over twenty albums in

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as well as many albums in English. She primarily sings about spirituality, love, peace, and awakening. Lyrics of her songs are inspired by

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and other major poets. She is also an official voting member at the

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Career

Shakila started her professional career at the age of nine when she was invited to perform on an Iranian television show. Later, she moved to

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where she studied music at

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. Shakila released her debut album titled ''Kami Ba Man Modaaraa Kon'' in 1990. Her second album, ''Geryeh Dar Ragbar'', was released in 1992. In 1993, Shakila signed with Persian record label,

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and released her third album ''Gheybate Noor''.Shakila's discography at Allmusic.com
Retrieved December 24, 2016 From 1997 to 2008, Shakila was signed with Los Angeles based record label

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and she released more than eight albums with them. In 2013, Shakila founded her own record label Shakila Enterprises. She has released over ten singles on her record label. In 2014, Shakila released her single ''Treasure Within'' which reached the peak position of No. 1 at various ''

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''. Her album ''11:11 City of Love'' was released in 2015. ''11:11 City of Love'' spent more than 43 weeks at No. 1 positions at multiple charts at

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. In 2016, Shakila released her album ''Splashing Tears'' which also stayed at the peak position of No. 1 at the Billboard charts for several weeks. Shakila has won ''Persian Music Academy Award'' in 2006 and ''Global Music Award'' in 2015. She has been nominated twice at the

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.Shakila has received two Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominations
Retrieved December 27, 2016

Awards

*'' Persian Music Academy Award''- (2006) *''Global Music Awards''- (2015) *''

''- Nominated Twice *''One World Music Awards''- Nominated (2015)

Discography

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* {{Authority control Living people Iranian classical singers 21st-century Iranian women singers Iranian women pop singers Iranian folk singers 20th-century Iranian women singers 1962 births Persian-language singers of Iran Kurdish-language singers of Iran English-language singers of Iran Turkish-language singers of Iran Hindi-language singers Spanish-language singers of Iran

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