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SIZZLING hotel lounge singer Sandra Tremblay is set to launch her third single and hopes it will inspire bullied children to battle on despite the heartache they are suffering.
As reported in GulfWeekly, the talented performer has had phenomenal success as a YouTube recording star after transforming herself into a dazzling dance diva and has achieved more than a staggering one million views from her releases.
She is part of the popular duo Piece of Cake which in recent weeks has been entertaining diners at the Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay. The other member is Alex Le Kid who composed the hit song Shots that became such a social media sensation.
But the new release, Stay, touches a heart-rending personal note with Sandra, who wrote the lyrics in collaboration with Eddy Malone and Alex. “Unfortunately it talks about something that, I think, will never disappear and that is the subject of bullying.
“I suffered from that a lot at school and so did my older brother. Kids are mean ... they follow others and since they don’t want to be bullied ones, they bully. No matter how much you tell a child to be nice to others, ‘nature’ follows its course and both parties hopefully learn and grow from it.
“So this song doesn’t tell kids ‘not to bully’ ... it urges the bullied children to hang on in there and stay strong, that something better will be coming along!
“From my experience, it made me stronger and I am now a recording artist and international singer; how better can it get? In fact, a lot of well-known recording artistes were also bullied in their younger years – some of my inspirations, for example, such as Christina Aguilera, Eminem, Lady Gaga and Ed Sheeran all suffered.”
Sandra and Alex originally came to Bahrain as part of a seven-piece band playing at Rocky’s Café at the Ramee International Hotel during an eight-month stint starting in 2014. The purpose was to help finance a Better Late Than Never 14-track album project.
Since then they have regularly appeared at the Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay attracting a huge following. The latest single was recorded back home in Canada and an accompanying video will be shot in Kuwait when the duo move to a new Four Seasons residency after completing an Eid and Back to School Brunch season in Bahrain last weekend.
Stay is set to be released by the end of the month. Visit www.sandra.buzz for more details.
Christina Aguilera experienced bullying in school from kids who did not understand her love of performing. The bullying and isolation got so bad that the tires on Aguilera’s family car were slashed, and they moved.
The Lose Yourself rapper might be one of the most respected rappers in hip-hop, but Eminem has revealed that he was beaten up a lot as a child because he frequently changed schools. Speaking to Anderson Cooper, Em said he felt like he was being singled out, but that he ultimately wanted to prove the bullies wrong.
Lady Gaga was another pop star who has admitted that she was bullied as a child. Horrible boys once threw the singer in a trash can and the star admitted that she struggled to understand why. “Everybody was laughing and I was even laughing. I had that nervous giggle… I remember even one of the girls looking at me like, ‘Are you about to cry? You’re pathetic.’ That’s what it felt like, you’re pathetic.”
Ed Sheeran has opened up on his experiences with bullies at school and admitted it’s made him the person he is today. The You Need Me, I Don’t Need You star said that the trauma endured as a youngster can end up being positive. “I think everyone goes through a bit of bullying at school. Of course you get picked on for certain things, but I think it ends up being a positive. I was quite a weird kid when I was little, I wore big glasses, had hearing problems, had a stutter and I had ginger hair, but I am now a successful musician and I have nothing to complain about. So I have come out the other end and blossomed.”
