Rahimah Rahim (singer, born 1955), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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About Rahimah Rahim (singer, born 1955)
- Rahimah Rahim (born December 9, 1955) is a retired singer from Singapore.
- She has released 12 albums.Rahimah is the daughter of Rahim Hamid, a singer from the 1950s, and Mariam Baharom, an actress.
- Her uncle is singer Ahmad Daud.
- She is the eldest of four children.
- She had her first acting role at age six, when she played a little rich girl in Korban Kasih.
- As a child, she would perform with her father on television and in nightclubs.
- She performed in the television show Pak Awang Temberang (Mr Awang Temberang) in the 1960s.
- She also had film roles as a child in Masuk Angin Keluar Asap and Kasih Ibu.She released her first album, entitled Mana Ibumu (Where has your mother gone?) in 1972, when she was 17.
- Her hit songs include "Doa" ("Prayer") and "Gadis Dan Bunga" ("Lasses And Blooms").
- Her other albums include Gadis Dan Bunga and Bebas, both of which were produced by Johari Salleh and went gold.
- Her singing career took off in 1974 when she was the group champion and the grand champion in Kim Koso Talentime in Japan.
- She has since represented the SBC in the ASEAN Song Festival and in the Golden Bell Awards in Taiwan.
- She has sung in Malay, Indonesian, English, and Japanese.She married footballer Mohamed Noh Hussein in 1977, with whom she had a daughter, Pearl Nur Hida, in 1978, and whom she later divorced in 1988.
- Her second marriage is to bank officer Remy Taib, to whom she was, as of 2006, still married.
- They met at a party in 1989, and married in 1994.
- Amalyn,their daughter was born in 1995.In 1989, she went on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
- Upon her return she retired from singing full-time.
- From 1990 to 1997, she ran a hair and bridal salon.
- As of January 2009, she had been workin since 2003 as a customer relations officer at a maids agency.Although she has performed on occasion for special events, most notably as a guest performer on Singapore Idol in September 2006, where her namesake, Rahimah Rahim, was a contestant, she has stated that she has no plans to come out of retirement.
- Her 12th album, Awal & Kini (Before and Now) was a compilation of her greatest hits, released in October 2006.Rahimah is often recognized by customers at her place of work.
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