Felicia Alima – The Official Fabloggy

What’s up world? I am new to this whole “blogging” thing…never was one to brag about myself, but I am however, an “artist” and I would like to use this site as a tool to express my feelings and share my experiences with you. I’ve learnt so much in the past few years…just being in the industry, and instead of writing a book about my trials, tribulations, and successes, I’ll just blog about it. LOL! But really though, you will truly learn so much about me through this medium. You will certainly get to “Know Me”. Pun intended.

A little synopsis…My name is Felicia Alima and I’m a recording artist. (No…this isn’t A.A). Well…maybe for musicians. I’m an indie artist and I own my own label “Chantik Soul Entertainment” which I release my music through.

I’ve always been involved in music for as long as I can remember. My dad was a musician, so I grew-up listening to him sing and play his guitar. He bought me my first guitar when I was 5 years old, but unfortunately he passed away when I was just 7. That definitely influenced me as a young child, and till this day, I believe that he is the reason for my passion in music. I have a lot of his traits, and being musically inclined is just one of them.

I’m originally from Australia, but ethnicity-wise, I am half Indonesian and half Czech. I am what you would consider “Eurasian”, but I identify myself as more Asian than anything, because I was raised by my mother and she held very traditional Indonesian values. Respect your elders, be a hospitable person, love your family, work hard, play hard… LOL! Okay…she never instilled the play hard aspect… I guess that must be my Czech side.

I was born in Melbourne (VIC), but raised in Perth (Western Australia), where I went to school and college. I grew-up influenced by rap and hip-hop, but back then it was really a niche. You had to search for it. Perth was so slow with getting the latest and greatest, and probably the last city in Australia to jump onto the Hip-Hop bandwagon. But I just loved music so much. I teamed up with a DJ and recorded original songs at the age of 14. I continued to do so throughout the years, recording in a home studio. I graduated with a degree in Commerce (Management and Information Systems), and then I came straight to America. I never came here with the intentions of rock stardom…it was initially to pursue a career in corporate America. But in the back of my mind I always yearned to do music…I just never knew how to start the process and became complacent with my normal life.

But I still needed a hobby. I pursued the art of deejaying and putting out mixtapes and that became my medium of creativity for about 3 years… It wasn’t until late 2005 when I took the first step in achieving my dreams, and recorded a song about my ex. I had just got my heart-broken and I was still really angry and sad about the break-up. I went to a studio and told the engineer that I wanted to record a song. It was called “Gotta Get Out”. The song depicted our relationship in a nut-shell and demanded my ex and all of the memories of our relationship to get out of my life. Yes…I was angry! LOL! I even sang about how I burned all the pictures we took. (True story). But in-turn, the process of writing and recording the song gave me a feeling I had never felt before…it felt like therapy! It really did! After that…I just kept going.

I put out an EP (Extra-Play CD) with 5 songs on it called “The Way We Do”. Most of the songs on the release are about love (because I love love), but there’s one song on there about losing my father. I never expected to share my music with the world like I have though…this was my personal accomplishment. Therapy on wax. The process was so liberating for me…writing lyrics about real life experiences, recording and delivering that emotion, then sitting back and hearing the finished product. It’s like… “Wow! I did this!” And that was the best feeling ever! Luckily for me, other people got to hear the EP and it got attention from a commercial radio station in my home town, Perth. They added the song “Leavin’ Here Tonight” to their regular play-list. I was the only local indie artist at the time to be on their play-list!!! They would play “Buttons” by the Pussycat Dolls, “Gimme That” by Chris Brown, then “Leavin’ Here Tonight” by Felicia Alima. That was incredible to me!!! Right then I knew that this is what I wanted to do. As a child I always dreamt of becoming an artist, and I haven’t looked back since…