Trisno

Dahlia's sister and brother, Hamidah Ahmad and Eddie Ahmad, were also recording artists and recorded a duet titled Mawarku (translated in English as My Rose), which was a major hit in the 1970s.

This song has been popularised by Siti Nurhaliza and group 2 by 2 from Malaysia.

Early on in his life, Trisno was exposed to the musical world.

His mother brought him to her jazz performances across the region when his father, Ishak Ahmad, was often overseas.

Backstage, Trisno would never fail to catch a glimpse of his mother singing and performing in front of the masses.

From then on, his musical journey began.

Growing up, Trisno listened to music from genres ranging from jazz to Motown to Latin.

His early influences include Spyro Gyra (jazz), Shakatak (jazz-funk), Frank Sinatra (vocal jazz) and Julio Iglesias (Latin).

Mostly disguised as a toilet singer, his talent was only first spotted at the age of 14.

His stepfather, Redwan Ali, exposed him to musicians such as David Sanborn, Miles Davis, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.

Trisno learnt the importance of music from educational perspective such as music notation, song composition and studio works.

Trisno continued learning music and has become adept at piano, acoustic guitar, bass guitar and electric guitar.

He obtained 8th grade in bass guitar at Yamaha Music School.

As Trisno served his national service, he met music producer Terry Lee.

Under the direction of Lee, Trisno appeared on "Serenade Volume 3" in the song "My Lady, My Bonnie, My Wifey" in an album compilation of Asian-American musicians that was released in the United States.

Trisno Ishak (18 July 1978), known professionally as Trisno, is a singer and teacher from Singapore.

In 2000, he was the lead singer of Urban Xchange, which evolved to Parking Lot Pimp.

He has performed alongside Stacy Orrico, Jamie Cullum, Jay Sean, Missy Higgins and Ben and Joey of The Click Five.

He collaborated with John Lennon, Brian McKnight, Mr. Cheeks from The Lost Boyz, Malaysian hip-hop duo Too Phat, Malaysian singer Camelia, Singaporean rapper Sheikh Haikel, and Taiwanese pop singer Evonne.

With his sizzling buttery voice, Trisno has captivated local and international audience.

Coupled along with his versatility in music and adept talent at working the crowd, he is described as "the guy who was born to be a performer".

Trisno was born into a musically inclined background.

His mother, Dahlia Ahmad, was a recording artist at EMI.

With Lee and five others, including Vanessa Fernandez and Munir Alsagoff, they formed Urban Xchange in 2000.

The group was signed to Universal Music Group after a Coca-Cola endorsement deal for the "Life Tastes Good" campaign set for Asia.

The debut album was released in 2001 titled How Did We Get Here?, which includes songs such as "Stupid", which was on high rotation on local radio and MTV.

In 2001, MTV named Urban Xchange artist of the month, and they appeared on the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack with the song "I wanna be like Jackie Chan".

The second album, self-titled, was released in 2002 with the single "Buzzin".

Urban Xchange also appeared in Elle Singapore January 2002 edition as 'Hot Musicians' to look out for in 2002.

Urban Xchange's achievement and fame in local and regional scene was rooted in "its fusion of sounds" Pivotal to their success was Hans Ebert, who was vice-president of Universal Music Asia Pacific and then joining EMI.

Recorded Music Southeast Asia as advisor to chairman in September 2002.

When Urban Xchange was reborn as Parking Lot Pimp, Ebert maintained close affiliation and support for the new band.

Two years later, in 2003, Urban Xchange won tBest Regional English Album at the AIM awards in Malaysia, and were nominated for Best/Favourite Singapore Artiste in MTV Asia Awards 2003.

The group performed alongside Europe's classical pop quintet Wild, British R&B popstar Jay Sean, Australian folk singer Missy Higgins, and American singer Richard Marx in EMI Rainbow of Sound Showcase 2004 in Bangkok.

In 2005, Urban Xchange evolved into Parking Lot Pimp, boasting psychedelic and space rock.

It was composed of four members of Urban Xchange – Trisno, Vanessa, Terry, and Munir, as well as Jeremy Green, an American rapper.

The shift in music genre and band image was primarily because of boredom of Urban Xchange and hip-hop.

Their album Welcome to our frequency was released in 2005.

They were named MTV Advance Warning Artiste.

In 2005 and 2006, Parking Lot Pimp featured on America Online Music.