Talented Lebanese singer Dina Hayek terminated her contract with production company Rotana AudioVisual before its end. After releasing two albums, successful "Katabtellak" and not-so-successful "Taa La Albi", Dina says she could not come to an agreement with Rotana executives. Dina had complained before about the lackluster attention she gets from Rotana, the mediocre advertising, and the less than flattering airtime her latest video clip, "Taa La Albi", got on Rotana channels. While the video clip issue was solved, Dina still blamed Rotana's bad advertising for the failure of her album on the Egyptian and Gulf sales charts.
The final straw was when Rotana prevented Dina from performing at the 2007 Hala Febrayer Festival in Kuwait. Dina said that Rotana dismissed her request by simply saying "we do not decided who performs." That is very unlikely when nineteen out of the twenty-two performers were Rotana artists.
Dina will soon release a single on Melody channels, although she has not chosen a new production company yet. The lyrics begin like this:
"Eamelt Aashanak Kol Haga
Eamelt Eih Enta?
Kan Albi Ghali Aidatahoulak
Ma Redaytshi, Leih Terda?"
It is still worth noting, though that Dina says she is on good terms on Rotana, and her next video clip, "Baddi Habibi" will air on Rotana channels first.
What do you think? Though Rotana hampers the abilities of many prominent singers, do you think a relatively new singer such as Dina will do very well away from Rotana?
By Ahmed
Comments
awww thats not nice 2 hear
yeah she will rotana sux asln
Amrdiab was 10 he is zero since he entered rotana
asala same thing
ihab tawfee2 like a sugar that disappeared in a hot water
shereeb wagdy nuttin
rotana suxxxx
Dina hayek knows that she wont be popular withotu egypt and she wants her videoclips in egyptian channels just like madline mattar .. she is famous cuz of her egyptian songs
Well yes Egypt is a huge market, it has nothing to do with being more famous, just more sales and revenue. Najwa Karam and others like her do not need to be more famous in the Arab world, but they are not as rich as others who sing in the Egyptian dialect.
It always seems like the Egyptian audience are the least receptive out of other Arab audiences, of performers who do not sing in their dialect. It is excusable though because of the difficulty in understanding them.
Excuse my expression, not of performers as such, but their works.
I am very happy that Dina is at last leaving Rotana. I think that Rotana, focuses on only a few of their artistes.
I also think that even Amal Hijazi should leave Rotana. The company hasn't given her any attention also. When Amal was signed to Music is My Life, she was almost as famous as Nancy Ajram or Elissa and sales of her album Zaman had topped charts.