International pop star Chantal Chamandy is no ordinary international pop star.

She speaks six languages, has released hit songs in Canada and throughout Europe and has recorded a grand concert at the Pyramids in Egypt to be aired on U.S. television in March.

Chantal Chamandy

She’s a very international pop star.

Her father is Greek-Egyptian. Her mother was Lebanese. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt and raised in Montreal, Canada.

In addition to the French, English, Greek and Arabic tongues she grew up with, she learned Spanish and Italian as she traveled the world throughout her career.

“I have a very musical ear,” she said about her ability to pick up languages quickly.

And she makes use of them—all of them—in her music.

Chamandy is scheduled to appear in Dearborn on Saturday, February 9, for a screening of “Chantal Live at the Pyramids” at the Arab American National Museum.

The film, which includes cultural and tourist elements with commentary by the singer, was shot during a free concert performed in front of the Pyramids on the Giza plateau in September.

It’s set to be broadcast on PBS beginning in March.

“It was a dream that I always had,” she said about performing at the unique location. “It showed me that there’s nothing that’s impossible.”

The concept of the show, in which the singer performed alongside the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, an Egyptian dance troupe and the Cairo Opera House Ballet Company, was created by Chamandy herself.

She said she likes to have her hands all over everything she does, having also written and produced her own album “Love Needs You.”

Chamandy began her career in the 1980s when she was 15 years old. She recorded hit songs as part of a Canadian pop group named Voggue.

“I sold a lot of records. It was a lot of fun. But I didn’t really have control of my own destiny,” she said. “Now the sky’s the limit.”

Despite being an independent artist without the support of a major label, Chamandy managed to coordinate a major ad blitz in Canada when her album was released in 2007 that had newspaper reports asking “who’s that girl on the bus?”

The album has been a success there and in other parts of the world. In London, her single “Crazy” has been remixed and released by several different DJs.

“I have no interest in being signed to a label,” she said. “It’s taken off amazingly well.”

She describes her music, which includes lyrics in several languages and sounds from throughout the world, as an eclectic fusion of pop and world culture, without straying too far from mainstream styles.

“It’s radio friendly and it’s new,” she said. “It’s not world music. It’s pop with a twist.”

Influences range from Pavarotti to the Bee Gees, Fairuz to Barbra Streisand.

Chamandy said she’s working on putting together more grand concerts in other countries like the show at the Pyramids, but couldn’t yet say exactly where.

She doesn’t go on tour until June, but she said she’s looking forward to her trip this weekend to Detroit, where she said the Arab American community embraces her as one of their own.

“They’re very proud of me,” she said. “It’s so cute because they always say ‘We’re so glad you’re one of us.’ It’s like going home to your mother.”

The “Live at the Pyramids” special is scheduled to air on PBS in Detroit March 14. The DVD can be pre-ordered at Chamandy’s website, www.chantalchamandy.com.