{"id":164335,"date":"2022-03-27T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164335"},"modified":"2022-03-27T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:07:31","slug":"aina-abdul-gets-recognition-in-new-yorks-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=164335","title":{"rendered":"Aina Abdul gets recognition in New York&#8217;s Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Najwa Yusman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 27 March 2022: Malaysian singer Aina Abdul was acknowledged on the international stage when her image appeared on a Times Square billboard in New York (USA), <em>The Star<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the newspaper report, Aina was selected by Spotify to be a representative of Malaysia in a programme entitled Equal Singapore and Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equal is one of the streaming global initiatives to promote gender equality in the music industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In a recent post on her Instagram, she thanked her team and fans that worked hard for such a delightful moment in her life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To be on board with some of the best female musicians for the Equal campaign still feels surreal to me,&#8221; she wrote on her Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After making a success for winning the best vocals and popular singer recently in Anugerah Juara Lagu (AJL36), Aina was blessed with another accomplishment in her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aina also mentioned that the gesture of being displayed on Times Square New York opened a new opportunity for her although the campaign will only last for a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This exposure is good for me to be known globally,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aina also revealed that one of her English songs managed to be broadcast on a Japanese radio station, which made her feel honoured.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: The Star<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Najwa Yusman KUALA LUMPUR, 27 March 2022: Malaysian singer Aina Abdul was acknowledged on the international stage when her image appeared on a Times&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5674,"featured_media":164340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,156,5674],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1529256.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164354,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164335\/revisions\/164354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}