Anaida

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Anaida at 12th Mumbai Film Festival

Anaida or Anaida Parvaneh is an Indian performer, director, producer, and playback singer.[1] She is now a chef and healer.

Background[edit]

A Parsee/Zoroastrian of Indian-Greek-Iranian heritage,[2][3] she was one of India's first pop singers, in the 1990s. She has launched 10 albums and a score of singles, in Hindi, English, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Greek, and Arabic since then.

She has acted in Hindi movies and guest appearances in numerous television shows. She had worked in 1995 movie Tum Karo Vaada.[4][5]

Career[edit]

  • She was the first female Hindi pop artist to be featured on "Buddha bar" with her song "Good day to die" sung in English.[6]
  • 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 (All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society).
  • 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.[7]

References[edit]

  1. "Anaida Parvaneh is the jack and master of all trades". Telangana Today. 5 February 2018.
  2. "Discovering Iranian cuisine in Delhi with a 1990s Indipop star". dailyo.in. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. "Anaida Biography, Anaida Bio". connect.in.com. 3 September 2009. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009.
  4. "Return of the diva". 12 August 2006 – via www.thehindu.com.
  5. "Brand new day". 11 November 2006 – via www.thehindu.com.
  6. "Only '90s Kids Will Recognise This Pop Star, Now A Chef In Mumbai!". Mid Day. 2 May 2017.
  7. "Food for thought: Singer, chef and healer Anaida Parvaneh on her relationship with food". Times of India. 3 July 2017.

Further reading[edit]

  • Profile, timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 15 January 2010.
  • Profile, epaper.timesofindia.com; accessed 7 March 2018.
  • Profile, rediff.com; accessed 7 March 2018.

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