Career
She is the first filipina participant of Piirpauke. She started singing since she was 7 years old at a church in Philippines. She participated in any events that involves singing throughout the time she was in high school.
By the time she turned 18, she decided she was ready to join a band.
And she did find the perfect band that suits her singing needs. She sang with her band in lots of venues including the time when they were hired to perform after the well-known Philippine Singers like Vina Morales and Aiza Seguerra performing in concert at Sports Center in Baruy.
While Sheila Surban was in the band she also performs in a well-known hotel in Iligan City with the piano player she met when she was singing at her friend’s birthday. She performed with them in Tallinn, Estonia in June,2006.
She also performed in Joensuu Gospel Festival in July 2006.
After that, she embarked on singing gospel songs in most of the churches around Finland but still keep performing Finnish folk music June 2009, She made an album with Sakari Kukko and Samuli Mikkonen called "Soi Kiitos",courtesy of Rockadillo Records. They received a lot of the good critics about their album in the newspaper around Finland.
Their album was announced in Radio Dei, a Finnish radio station, as the "ALBUM OF THE WEEK", that earned them to have their songs of their album played for one week in that radio station.
Sheila Surban joined a new group called "INTERCONTINENTAL TRIO", a band that is consist of musicians from three different continents, Asia, Europe and Africa, the music of which predominantly represents the genre of world music She also joined Sakari Kukko"s Humbalax band with multiracial members but the name itself is based on Humppa (a Finnish traditional dance music) and Balax (a modern Senegalese dance music) and that is how the name of the band was created.
She is currently recording a new album with the group and it is available in the market last November 2011.