Anaida

Background

History

• At 15, she entered the Indian music scene with her hit single "Hotline" which also happened to be the first Indian single to be released.
• Her first album Love today hai nahi asaan was the highest selling debut album of its time " took the fans and critics by surprise, so different from the trend at the time and what she herself has done before.
• "Kaachi Kali", the second video from the album Chori Chori, sees her teams up with prominent choreographer Saroj Khan once again, for her last Hindi album produced by herself.
• 2000 also saw her lending her voice to the sound track of Dev Benegal's English film "Split Wide Open" for a nostalgic version of the old disco hit "Black is black".
• Her album Greatest hits of Anaida was released in 2000 and included many of her popular numbers as well as two new tracks, "Piya Bina" and "Anaida", the Greek/Hindi number she sang with Stefanos Korkolis, supported by a video shot in Greece.

  Career

• She was the first female Hindi pop artist to be featured on "Buddha bar" with her song "Good day to die" sung in English.
• Her last Hindi album Nayaa was completed with inputs from various talents from around the world. She held her first art exhibition show casting her work of the last two decades years: Persian miniature and calligraphy carvings on leather featuring Rumi and Omar Khayyam poetry and abstract inks on paper in February 2011 at AIFACS.
• With more than a dozen videos to her credit and highly popular on the live circuit, she has performed all around the world in different languages.