Premium vocalist
Soul, house, and club classics with three decades behind the mic — a voice that fills the room and steers the night.
The story
Some artists search for a signature sound. Haifa carried hers out of the clubs before the industry even had her name on a call sheet.
Suburban London, fifteen years old: she did not discover UK house and garage from the sidelines — she stepped straight into the booth. Freestyle vocals on the capital's sharpest circuit forged a reputation for raw, instinctive presence and a voice that could hush a packed floor mid-sentence.
The industry moved fast. At eighteen, Public Demand Records — home to Craig David and Artful Dodger — put pen to paper after seeing her live. Her debut single, remixed by Artful Dodger, landed on major compilations at the white-hot centre of UK garage.
In 2001, Pop Idol UK — Final 10, Simon Cowell's backing, national screens. That wave opened Ministry of Sound / Incentive with Nick Hawkes: "Unbreak My Heart" became a #2 UK dance hit, Topshop TV rotation, and stages across borders.
Among the first UK artists on Westwood (BBC Radio 1) in Dubai; EMI chasing her bilingual original L O V E — English and Arabic — proof she was always as much writer as vocalist.
A defining night at Privilege, Ibiza — warming up for house legend Adeva — locked in a lifelong bond with soulful house. That thread runs straight into everything she records and every room she opens with a single note.