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HEY THERE DALILA

AS A CHILD , Dalila Ali Rajah knew exactly what she wanted to do. “I always knew I wanted to be an actress, singer, and a dancer,”says Ali Rajah,who ended up becoming all those things, and more (she added writer and producer to the list along the way).

She recalls going to a restaurant as a child “when I was probably around 7 or 8. I went to the restroom on my own, and on the way back I ran into a member of the restaurant band setting up... He asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told him, and he asked if I knew any songs. I knew ‘Fame,’ the theme song

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