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    Sudirman Arshad was a famous Malaysian singer and songwriter who started his career after winning a talent competition in 1976. He was known as the "Singing Lawyer" and "Elvis of Malaysia" for his talents in music and law. Sudirman brought Malaysian music international recognition by winning the "Asia's No. 1 Performer" award in 1989 in London and performing successfully in several countries. Though he had a short career due to his untimely death in 1992, Sudirman made a big impact and received numerous posthumous awards for his contributions to the Malaysian music industry.

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    Sudirman Arshad was a famous Malaysian singer and songwriter who started his career after winning a talent competition in 1976. He was known as the "Singing Lawyer" and "Elvis of Malaysia" for his talents in music and law. Sudirman brought Malaysian music international recognition by winning the "Asia's No. 1 Performer" award in 1989 in London and performing successfully in several countries. Though he had a short career due to his untimely death in 1992, Sudirman made a big impact and received numerous posthumous awards for his contributions to the Malaysian music industry.

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    Sudirman Arshad was a famous Malaysian singer and songwriter who started his career after winning a talent competition in 1976. He was known as the "Singing Lawyer" and "Elvis of Malaysia" for his talents in music and law. Sudirman brought Malaysian music international recognition by winning the "Asia's No. 1 Performer" award in 1989 in London and performing successfully in several countries. Though he had a short career due to his untimely death in 1992, Sudirman made a big impact and received numerous posthumous awards for his contributions to the Malaysian music industry.

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    Sudirman Arshad was a famous Malaysian singer and songwriter who started his career after winning a talent competition in 1976. He was known as the "Singing Lawyer" and "Elvis of Malaysia" for his talents in music and law. Sudirman brought Malaysian music international recognition by winning the "Asia's No. 1 Performer" award in 1989 in London and performing successfully in several countries. Though he had a short career due to his untimely death in 1992, Sudirman made a big impact and received numerous posthumous awards for his contributions to the Malaysian music industry.

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    Dato' Sudirman bin Haji Arshad, (25 May 1954 22 February 1992) was a Malaysian famous singer and

    d songwriter. He had started his career after winning the "Bintang RTM" on 11 August 1976. Besides, he is the title holder of "Asia's No. 1 Performer" on 19 March 1989 as he won the Asian Popular Music Awards competiton in Royal Albert Hall in London. He was known as the "Singing Lawyer", the "People's Singer" and the "Elvis of Malaysia". He is also a multi-talented person as a singer, entertainer, composer, lawyer, writer (memoir and children books), cartoonist, entrepreneur and actor.

    Sudirman was born on 25 May 1954 in Temerloh, Pahang as the youngest of seven children born to Hj Arshad Hassan and Ramlah Dahlan (the first stateswoman in Pahang during the 1950s). His passion for singing and entertaining started at a very young age, when his siblings and neighbors would happily let him entertain them. Sudirman Arshad completed his secondary education in Sultan Abu Bakar School (SABS), Kuantan. After turning down a scholarship to further his studies in medicine, he studied law instead and received his degree from the University of Malaya. He was called to the bar and became a practising lawyer. He married Kamariah Jamaluddin in 1981, but divorced her three years later.

    Career
    Sudirman Arshad was named 'Malaysia's Singing Ambassador' by the Malaysia Tourism Development Board (MTDC). He was the voice behind the MTDC (Malaysian Tourism Development Corp) tune, To know Malaysia is to love Malaysia which was composed by American Emmy, Grammy and Oscar nominated singer and songwriter Carol Connors. He was referred to as the 'Singing Dynamite' by Singaporean journalists. His singing brought him standing ovations in Australia (in Sydney and Melbourne), Japan, Kuwait and the United States (Hawaii). Simon Napier-Bell, the manager for George Michael's band Wham!, referred to Sudirman Arshad as the 'institution of Malaysian music industry'. Sudirman's work was recognized by the industry when he was posthumously awarded an Anugerah Industri Muzik award and a street was named after him in his hometown of Temerloh. PAPITA created an award especially categorized under his name, which to this date has yet to be won by anyone. In the Malaysia Book of Records, Sudirman Arshad was given a posthumous award together with P Ramlee, Mokhtar Dahari, Tun Ghafar Baba and Ramasamy Letchemanah (Mighty Man). 26 July 2010, The National Choir paid a tribute to the late entertainer by organizing a concert in conjunction with the KL Music Festival 2010 having 1,000 audience present.

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