I first started my professional singing career in the late 1980's singing in clubs with various musicians singing all types of music from Folk to Hard Rock. Singing in the clubs was a good way for me to cut my teeth and learn about the music industry, while there were tough times, I knew I wanted to sing and worked hard to make my dreams come true.
During this time I met Lord from The Boys and he asked me to sing a few songs with the band and eventually I became the main singer with the Boys. After performing in clubs for less than a year we were discovered and offered a recording contract with CBS (SONY Music) in the late eighties. In 1989 we recorded Kelkatu Gugur Sayapnya as the group "Shima and The Boys.