Dubai prince lives a double life as Filipino POP-STAR?! - The Mystery of Sheikh Ali Al Maktoum 

So what are your theories? 🤔

Alira disappeared once again to debut in korea with NCT

Barbie princess and the popstar: a dubai prince finds his popstar look alike and they both decide to switch places with the help of their magic brush and magic mic

his lashes are gorgeous im so jealous

You always find the wildest stories 😂

He's like a magical girl without the magic and transformation charm stuff

i feel like he is a real prince, he sings for a hobby because its what he likes. but then his family told him he cant sing anymore and have to do some real business now lol

I think he's a low-key (distant) member of the Dubai royal family who thought he can get away with what he wants but was ultimately defeated. Here's why: 1. Dubai media didn't dispute his royal status, so he is a real prince. 2. He was raised by Filipino nannies. This explains his affinity for Filipino culture, fluency in Tagalog, and his love for singing. 3. He wanted to be a popstar and choosing the Philippines to jumpstart his career was a no-brainer (see #2). 4. As he got famous in Tiktok, his family got wind of his budding career as a singer and disapproved. The UAE gov't might have requested a mainstream media (and most likely other socmed platforms) news blackout in the Philippines. I'm Filipino and I've never heard of him until now. 5. The HK and UAE governments might have already been in talks about the investment months before Alira came into the picture. Since he was already in the region, he might have been under strict orders to abandon his popstar ambitions and represent the royal family in HK. 6. After hyping up the financial world of HK, he decided he can't do it anymore, dropped everything and went back to Dubai.

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Tbh the Philippines connection isn’t that weird if you consider the many Filipinos working for Emirati families (mostly as maids and nannies). He probably grew up around a lot of Filipino staff and just learned about the culture (and obsession with music).

Dude, I am from the Philippines, never heard of Alira; but this story is WILD.

This has a plot similar to a movie. When a prince's family rejected his desire to pursue a career as a singer. He fled to the Philippines, thinking it was a third-world nation, and no one knew the true him. His career thereafter took off. His family was informed via tiktok. Thus, they issue the command. I will stop giving you the inheritance if you keep singing. Thus, the prince returns to carry on his family's business legacy. 😂

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The way you visited the office omg 😂😂 this story was so random, the stunt theory makes sense imo

This is such a crazy story😭😭😭, also just a little side note: dubaian isn't really a word people from dubai are just emirati there's not really a word to refer to an emirati from a specific emirate

Out of all the countries, the Philippines?? I mean, it's not a muslim majority country, plus, it's geographically very far away. But it's cool how people nowadays move out of their comfort zone!

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Bro no offense to John Lee, but that damage control statement had me laughing my ass off. "As long as he has the money, he could have been a man on the street and we would have still taken it". Bro what?????

this is so wild😭😭

I'm a Filipino and I didn't even know he existed 😅 Yeah he's definitely NOT an ALister celeb

hes going to re appear in korea apart of NCT Dubai

I wish i was rich enough to live a double life like this.

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this is very drama like but honestly who knows so my theory is that The Sheikh is a real sheikh but wanted to become a singer since he was young but wasn't allowed to be one because of strict family so he convinced his parents that he'd do business overseas, flew to Phillipines to start his music career but his family found out years later thus abruptly stopping his music career.

It is not "Sheekh" it is "Shaykh". It seems he grew up in Philippines going by the fluency of Tagalog or had seriously learnt Tagalog with employees. The singer and the sheikh are obviously the same person. Royal families in the UAE are very large, consisting of hundreds of members. Only the direct descendants of the ruler and/or those holding ministerial portfolios are known to people.

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Kept seing news of this prince kept popping up on news feed. I've always thought that he might be on a small show on phillipines or something. But after watching your video, wtf!? if the whole thing was a big lie, how crazy is that for a person once with such fame and a lot of records on the internet to think that he might succeed.

I really love how Ploopy tell stories. I obviously looks like she put in a lot of effort but I do hope you post more often.

Yes, he is really a Prince according to Filipinos in Dubai. If he change his mind on investing in Hong Kong, maybe it has to do with China's mainland economy that is going down and eventually take over Hong Kong..

I was watching one of your videos about what happened to 50/50 and I am loving every story you cover. Also I accidentally found a very fun YT channel covering kpop dances and rating them. Coincedentally it was you. I was like no way. Hope you get more subs, you 100% deserve it

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what if he just goes ahead and tries a whole third identity….? now that would be something

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Wow I'm so not updated on the entertainment industry in my own country. I had no idea something like this was going on 😂

That guy was UAE based and was singing for the Filipino community in UAE. There are 700K Filipinos in UAE and a potential market for his singing career.

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Right now the investors are jittery about Hong Kong so whole thing is quite suspicious especially since Hong Kong is not a Muslim country so it's not as if they are doing charity in the name of religion.

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I'm sorry but that guy sounds a guy from LA who's putting on a fake accent.

His English is Filipino accented. 😅😅 Also, Sheikh and Alira have the exact same voice. 😅😅😅 I'm Filipino and I never heard of Alira until this video.

I am from the Philippines and how come I never heard of him? 😮 Great vid though!

He has potential but he keeps singing in notes he can't control.

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Also can definitely tell this man is on the 🌈 side. Not sure how that would fly in Dubai. Maybe he was escaping his life there

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Maybe he has an evil twin who's trying to sabotage his brother's singing career... Just kidding 😅 I think the third theory is the most plausible, but who knows

I'm from the Philippines and i never heard of this guy

If theory 3 is correct, I could totally see someone in the family getting excited about HK's policy toward foreign investment and coming up with a plan to act on it. His family might have encouraged him to play up his family connections, or he might have had the idea himself. Complicated family politics/drama would be a good explanation for the hastiness of all of these conflicting decisions and appearances.

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if he makes his story a netflix show he can actually get the money

Honestly this is craazyyy

It's giving Hanna Montana and A Cinderella Story, this is honestly so bizarre, hope we'll return someday to follow his dreams~ 😂 Hopefully it's nothing too serious, maybe he'll have a comeback.

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Good video

idk what’s going on with him but his eyelashes are pretty and he’s got a pretty voice. He might just have a double life and he’s not as wealthy as he portrayed in HK? but other than that i am stumped

Sorry to burst your bubble.. I'm a Filipino and I've never seen him anywhere. Not even in social media. He's not a sensation here 😅😅😅

I think maybe it was planned to start some new career path for this Alira singer, maybe he wanted to gather international attentian by going really viral with this wild story of beibg sheikh. So he needed to become sheikh, and he used this opportunity in Hongkong to establish himself as such, but he's said too much, and surprisingly, now he can't go back to being singer because it all was effed up. And about consulate confirming his relation to ruling family, I think it was just a rushed statement, like "oh, he's Al Maktoum, of course he's from ruling family! Oh, wait..." So the guy just have tried to boost up his popularity, and failed miserably, attracting too much unwanted attention with negative connotations.

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Im Filipino but Ive never heard of him before. That's pro'ly Filipino events in the UAE and not in in the Philippines.

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I could see this being a topic on one of my favorite podcasts, Scam Goddess. They would eat this up!

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I'm Filipino but I've never heard of ALIRA.

k-drama would be his father got sick and neeec to return as a prince

I think he was a real prince who wanted to become a singer

Wow i didn't know this

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are you from Hong Kong?

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Becoming a Tiktok karaoke singer makes you a better singer and it’s also makes you famous.

Dude I’m from Dubai and I didn’t even know 😭

He wasnt denied by Dubai so it means he's a real Prince... And a lot of Filipino works in Dubai so speaking Filipino is kinda a easy...

I am Filipino , but never heard of this guy. 😂 Maybe he's just performing with the Filipino community in the UAE, but not here in the Philippines.

I'm Filipino and it's so odd that I've never heard of Alira before, especially since it looks like he was interviewed by GMA, which is one of the, if not biggest, TV news platform in the Philippines 😅 and Filipinos usually go crazy for any foreign singers that love the music and culture. Especially if he's TikTok famous.

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Philippines is a free country. You can do what you want as long as you are not killing anyone, not violently hurting anyone, not destroying anything, it is a liberalistic world in here. You christian, welcome. You buddhist, welcome. You muslim, welcome. You atheist, welcome. Everyone is welcome here in the Philippines. Just abide by the laws of the Republic and have fun.

Islamic men adore Filipina women. Specifically Filipina. The regular dudes seek them out. Royalty has married them. They usually marry their own ethnicity first, but a lot of times they will actually marry a Filipina first.

Anyone else never heard of him??

guys i just checked and the website for him is back up! but it says it's under maintainence and shows a contact email

Might have the next Frank Abagnale

THAT IS ACTUALLY SOOO FUNNY😂.

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His voice, his double life, his lashes... Idk what's more impressive???

He read Anna Delvey's story and said "bet."

Very suspicious the site takes down

Never heard of Alira here in Manila, Philippines

I live in Dubai and this seems so wild lol

I love how random your videos get but is still around asian pop 😆

I hope we get an update on this. I have a feeling they’re the same person, and the royal family is just suuuuuper embarrassed by him for some reason, so they’re just *barely* claiming him.

wait so is she from Hong Kong? I thought so but her channel said the uk

he took "living the double life" a bit too seriously