Profile Taufiq Batisah

 

Muhammad Taufik Bin Batisah 

(born December 10, 1981) 
(Jawi: مهمد تيوفيك بن بتيسه) 
is the winner of the first season of the reality TV series Singapore Idol.

The Beginning

Taufik was born to a Malay family of mixed Indian and Buginese descent. His parents divorced when he was 13. He attended Boon Lay Primary School, Jurong Secondary School and is a graduate of the Singapore Polytechnic.

Taufik first started out as a singer in a local group called 
Bonafide playing a mixture of hip-hop and R&B with fellow rapper, Mark Bonafide.Taufik participated in the first season of the reality TV series Singapore Idol in 2004. 

On 1 December 2004, Taufik was crowned the first everSingapore Idol at the Singapore Indoor Stadium before an audience of more than 8,000 fans and 1.8 million viewers across the country. He scored a recording deal with Sony BMG and a management deal under Hype Records' artiste management arm, ArtisteNetworks. It was later revealed that Taufik had won 682,000 of the 1.1 million votes cast that night, while his opponent Sylvester Sim managed 418,000 votes.

Following his win, Taufik clinched a string of endorsements for brands such as Harmuni Rice, Samsung, 7-Eleven stores and HSC drinks. He was the first Singapore artiste to endorse for the Swiss watch-maker, Swatch.

On 14 January 2005, Taufik released his first English album Blessings.
The album included Taufik's hits from the competition such as Me and Mrs Jones, Let's Stay Together, Superstition as well as the Idol winning song I Dream. Taufik also co-wrote one track on the album titled Close 2 You. Blessings went on to a smashing sale of 36,000 copies, making into the Singapore Guinness Book of Records as the best selling local English album in the past decade.
It remains a record unbroken in the Singapore music industry.

On 19 April 2005, Taufik held his first solo concert showcase An Evening With Taufik at the Kallang Theatre. Fresh from recovering from tonsillitis (resulted from a non-stop four months performing schedule), he charmed both the media and full-house audience with his soulful singing and smooth on-stage moves.