Alisha Pillay

Alisha Pillay is an 19-year-old Alisha Pillay singer/songwriter from Vancouver, BC. At the early age of seven, Alisha began taking dance, piano, guitar and voice lessons. Music quickly became her passion and, with great determination to improve and expand her abilities, she began writing her own songs by age ten.

Some of Alisha's achievements to date include winning David Foster's Opportunity of a Lifetime Contest, the Shaw Star Discovery contest, and most recently, a $12,000 scholarship to acclaimed Berklee College of Music. Alisha has also been fortunate to share the stage with Josh Groban, Renee Olstead and Sarah McLachlan. She has also co-written a song for Asian girl-group “S.H.E” called “Boom” with the “Bananatoons”. “Boom” debuted at #1 on Billboard Asia for 8 weeks. Alisha has had the honor of being invited to perform for poet Maya Angelou, during her “Unique lives and experiences” tour in Vancouver. She also performed the national anthem at the Grey Cup Gala in 2005. She is a supporter of the “Raise a Reader” foundation, and does many guest appearances and performances for children to support literacy.

Alisha is an exceptionally versatile writer, dabbling in R&B, Pop and Hip Hop. Alisha has been working on a number of songwriting collaborations with various writers and producers, including Hip Joint (Kelly Rowland "Unity), Alisha "M'Jestie" Brooks (Rihanna "Pon de Replay") and the Underdogs (Chris Brown, Jordan Sparks, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Lachey, Whitney Houston among many others). Alisha is currently working on her album and hopes to have it out in mid-late 2009. Alisha has been selected to be the featured up and coming artist in January on Le Chateau's website.