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OCT 2016 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEMPO!! P.11 THE MAGIC OF M.I.A. CONTENTS ARTISTS 11 Album Spotlight 13 Music News 24 Shutterbug ADP FEATURES 05 7 Years of Tempo 16 Yaya Han 29 Notes & Cyberchatter FOODIES 19 The Epicurean GUIDES 09 In the Cinemas 10 Tempo Top 10 Songs 12 Tempo Events / People Calendar MOVERS 04 The Ed 05 Life Hacks 25 Youth Talk / Parental Guide 29 Being Happy SOCIAL 06 Tweets for Thought 07 Instafame 08 Trending In Youtube STORYTELLERS 06 A Thousand Faces 22 Tempo Talks Books / Librarian’s Lounge 23 Flash Fiction 28 Saif and Sound 30 Time Capsule STYLEMAKERS 14 Blueprint TECHIES 20 Game Hedz TEMPO GROUP: CONTRIBUTORS: MANAGING EDITOR DESIGN & LAYOUT Aysha Al Hamrani Heather Long Vandevoorde Noelle Pope-George Tomi Adetayo Sana Bagersh Shuhaib Shihabudheen Blakniss Jae Franklin Sana Ashraf Vanessa Middleton EDITORIAL COORDINATOR WEB developer Neil Bie Rasha Yousif Denise Schnitzer Lana Nasser Siobhan Ali Vera Rosales DJ Saif Nikith Nath Shahid Saeed Wafaa Al Maashani EDITORIAL ASSISTANT DISTRIBUTION COORDINATOR Arvin Z. Navarro Melaku Muluneh Dorian Rogers Nilofer Safdar Supriya Kamath ADDRESS: To reach editorial at Tempo email: [email protected]. If you need to find out where you can pick up your copy call:02 491 8624/25 or check out the list of Tempo distribution points on our website. NOTE TO ADVERTISERS: Advertisers can request brand tagging with all advertisements. To reach advertising: tel: 02 491 8624/25 | fax: 02 491 8626 | email: [email protected] DISCLAIMER: Tempo Magazine does its best to ensure the authenticity and accuracy of its contents, the publisher cannot accept any responsibility for errors, mistakes and inaccuracies. The publisher reserves the rights of this product and no part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the permission of the publisher. MEDIA LICENCE NO. 1/105866/24295 4 www.feelyourtempo.com THE EDITOR’S NOTE At Tempo, our sense of purpose defines us and so does our belief in the power of great ideas. gum... seven years to establish a good space that nurtures startups and new credit record, and... seven years to entrepreneurs. master a new skill! Other community projects we support For us at Tempo seven is a pretty are MomX and MomPreneurs, a special number. That’s how long it networking support group for moms took us to reach out to community, venturing into the business world, learn about you, and to make new to Abu Dhabi Pearls, an initiative friends. We have enjoyed connecting that builds leadership in young girls, with dreamers, doers, artists, builders, AmCham’s Arts and Culture Committee writers, creators, motivators, shapers, which encourages collaborations in the entrepreneurs, innovators and arts , the Green’s Sheikh’s Eco-Drive, change agents... the Global Compassion Games, Camp Imagination for kids, and Project Math We have indeed evolved together. and Coding. The list grows, and so does We’ve seen through our pages the our belief in the power of great ideas to birth of new ideas, new initiatives and positively impact communities. cool innovations. And as Tempo moves forward into a new year we seek to At Tempo, our sense of purpose defines enrich the world around us, through us. So please share your ideas, your It’s been seven years since we content that focuses on people and on comments and your inspiration with us. published our very first issue. S the creation of value partnerships that We look forward to another cool year even years! support the community. We support of being part of the rhythm of your life. The Smovies, the coolest short film Depending on your perspective, seven competition in the land that identifies I take this opportunity to thank all years may sound like a lifetime or seven and promotes new filmmakers, we of our readers, our contributors, our years may appear to pass by like a are committed to Tamakkan, an advertisers, our partners, our team - blink of the eye! To put seven years into entrepreneurship platform established and all of those who have accepted us perspective, they say it takes seven in 2009 that offers free monthly into their hearts and their homes! years to grow completely new skin... seminars to SMEs, and we offer support seven years for you to digest swallowed to LaunchPad, an exciting creative Spread peace + kindness. Sana Bagersh @sanabagersh Sana Bagersh Managing Editor [email protected] www.feelyourtempo.com 5 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEMPO! This month we celebrate Tempo in its seventh birthday! We take a look back at our stories of the last seven years to see how much we have all grown together! To all our readers and contributors, we say thank you for being part of our magnificent journey. 6 www.feelyourtempo.com A THOUSAND FACES BY TOMI Adetayo | [email protected] HOW A BAND WAS BORN, AND ITS CONTINUING JOURNEY 2007, I moved to Dubai and four years later Records. From piano to strings, guitar to I met Sebrina Riley. We jammed together percussion, the darbukah to the oud and and it sounded great. Shortly after, a friend even the trumpet, I aimed to bridge the recommended us to perform at what traditional and the oriental in a rich full- was then one of the very few platforms bodied symphonic pop music piece. The available to show-case Dubai-based album will be released around October musicians, Sikka Art Fair, and with that -November 2016. began ‘As Per Casper’. Our song ‘I Won’t Fall’, co-written and composed by Sebrina “In November 2015, I wrote, composed, and myself, was featured in the first-ever sang, and produced the album “Sing compilation album of artists in the UAE ‘n’ Learn” for Baby Arabia; an album titled ‘Sikka Score Vol. 1’. comprised of 16 Arabic nursery jingles to support a children’s language program The Story of ‘As Per Casper’ that offers a series of classes devoted to “I am Syrian-Palestinian and Sebrina is the child’s learning of other languages English with Jamaican roots. She used to through music and art. By August 2015, call me ‘Casper’ because she thought I was the band had been formed. Wadeeah the whitest Arab she had ever met. That had moved to Dubai from Bahrain and nickname spread and I am called Casper was looking for a band to play the guitar, till today by many of my friends. As for the Zachary had also recently moved to ‘As Per’, it was suggested by a good friend Dubai from Nashville, and is an amazing On the guitar - Wadeeah Almeshkhas | Middle sitting - Carla Saad | Man standing - Zachiah Darrow or ours and with that ‘As Per Casper’ was Cajon player, Moustafa had recently born. Eventually, we added new members moved back to Dubai from New York and Hassam, who had been a very close friend Musicians all have their own unique story “I decided to take up the guitar but to the band; Rita, who played many throughout the last couple of years, took to tell - and with the infancy stages of three weeks into it I realized that at 14, I instruments professionally, Rushdi on guitar up bass. the growing music scene here in the UAE, lacked the patience to learn ‘notes’. I did and Sam on drums. We performed again there’s a diverse mix of voices waiting however learn how to generate sound out at the Sikka Art Fair in 2013. Our set list “I’d like to give special thanks to the to be heard. One of those is Carla Saad, of a guitar as well as the theory behind comprised of covers as well as songs that music platforms that supported us, who shares her inspiring story as a young playing chords. I performed for the first Sebrina had written. Again, we managed including Go Play The World, The musician and the roots of her band time ever at my school talent show. The to resurrect As Per Casper’s name in the Sound Garden, Freshly Ground Sounds, “As Per Casper”. song was Bryan Adam’s ‘Everything I do’. I music scene. Sadly, shortly after, Rita had to sang whilst playing the guitar and I wasn’t leave Dubai and Sebrina decided to pursue Vibe Series, Metronome, White Cube, and DubaiEye 103.8. They created “My name is Carla Saad. As a child, music nervous. It felt so right. The performance a solo singing career and with that As Per went well and feedback was an affirmation Casper was down to one person; me. By opportunities for us to showcase our work was the only way my mother could keep and helped As Per Casper become one of me entertained. I sat for hours every day that ‘I can actually sing and it Sikka 2014, I was a solo act collaborating sounds good.’ with different musicians, singing covers as the most exciting talents in UAE’s arts watching a Betamax of Lionel Ritchie’s scene today.” music videos; ‘Hello’, ‘All Night Long’, ‘Say well as songs I had written. you, say me’ etc. By 4, I had most of the “During my first year of university in songs memorized and I turned towards Lebanon, I formed a band with a friend “I began producing my album ‘Hit The and her younger sister. For four years Ground’ which contains eight songs that I Catch the latest from legends like Mariah Carey and As Per Casper here: Janet Jackson. we participated in every university wrote, composed and sang on; produced performance under the ‘Music Club’. In by Joshua F. Williams at RecordPro TWEETS FOR THOUGHT Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Jacksepticeye Anna Kendrick Max Landis @HamdanMohammed @Jack_Septic_Eye @AnnaKendrick47 @UptomykneesFranta Dubai, UAE | hamdan.ae When I grow up I want to Pale, awkward and very #screenwriter.