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Nasyid.

MohdZaki b MohdZainal, 4th year, Material Engineering


Who could guess that a competition per se could changes a person’s life? This is a story of the person that had gone through the changed.
For any Nasyid enthusiast, songs like ‘BuatmuIbu’, ‘Guruku’ and ‘SentuhanKejayaan’is not anymore strange for them. These are among the popular songs by the Madani, a band gathered by one of the IIUM student since year 2000. It was formed initially for a competition but they decide to stay in-group until today. Thanks to that, they are today one of the famous Nasyidband in the country.
One member of the band is MohdZaki b MohdZainal. Looking from his appearance I never expected that he is actually a nasyid singer. He is very active in basketball and his appearance suit a basketball player really well. He is even won third place in the recent basketball tournament of Non-Chinese Basketball League Malaysia 2009. However, like the old saying ‘ Don’t judge a book by its cover’.
Despite his persona, he is actually very talented in art. He could compose songs, sing, plays guitar as well as keyboard. Other than that, he is also good in mechanical. Registered as IIUM students in 2004, he takes Material Engineering as his major.
Asking about his time management, he said that his work and activity do not bother his study at all. In fact, it helps him gaining more confident during study and also assist him in managing his time efficiently.
The other members of the band are also University student, 2 of them are from IIUM, another 2 are from Uitm and 1 is from UTM. Even though all of them are Engineering student, surprisingly, they are really good in music. 2 persons responsible for their music career nowadays are Pn. Bariah and his husband En. Sumiyami. They are the one that guide them since the initial form of the group.
After graduation in 1 more year and he is aiming to expand their band’s reach outside Malaysia. Other than that, he is also planning to collaborate with International artist and making their band’s name heard throughout Malaysia.
For the time being, his band is still independent and does not fall under any mainstream label. They opened their own company in 2007 to manage their band and funding for their performance and album production. By using the same name as their band, Madani Creativeexpands the band creativity into teaching nasyid classes and producing songs and lyrics.
Ending the interview session, I suddenly thought of one phrase from a movie, ‘There is always a first time for everything’.