Award Winning Singer/Songwriter: Shahin Badar | Artist Shoutout

Shahin Badar, a versatile award winning singer/ songwriter, is world famous for her vocals in The Prodigy's 3 U.K. No.1 albums, the alaap chants in the banger 'Smack My Bitch Up' made her legendary and 'Get Up, Get Off'' further added to her popularity. The multimillion selling album, 'Fat of The Land' made Shahin Badar the recipient of a Quadruple platinum Disc award and got her an entry into the Guinness book of records in 1999 for the fastest selling UK album. She is also credited with successful albums like 'Laila' (Times Music) and 'Destiny'.
She has also collaborated with various world renowned producers across the world covering music genres like EDM, Trance, House, Trip Hop, Pop, Sufi, over which she implemented her production ideas.
Her collaborations includes the likes of Indian Ropeman, Bobina, Gemini Brothers, Noise Control, Doug Laurent, Kaya Project, Gio Makyo, Jah Wobble, FX, Fraser T Smith, Twista and Juliet Lewis and many more. Badar's vocal contributions feature in over 50 international film and TV soundtracks, like the UK Music Hall of Fame, ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider: 2’, ‘Charlie's Angels’, ‘Scary Movie 2’, ‘Closer’ and US sitcoms. She’s also sung for Bollywood films for A.R. Rahman in Zubieda, Yuva, Dhai Akshar Prem Ke.
Badar also released 4 remix versions of her single Jaag, in support of women empowerment. Two remixes have been produced by world famous EDM producers like DJ Podje, the 3rd track by UK DJ and producer Juttla and the final track produced by UK based Kaya Project.
Badar also featured on producer and Dee Montero’s record label (Futurescope) single Sapphire. From the melancholic drones of the Indian tanpura rooting the songs key, Badar gives a great edge to this track, with effervescent vocals drifting between the grooving grids of timeless house sounds. Her vocals of SMBU were recently sampled by US Hip Hop Rapper Asap Ferg for his single Floor seats. Badar also features on the track Nazreh Mili on Kaya Project’s 2018 album ‘Up from the Dust’, now released on vinyl as a double album.
⬇ The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up (HD) LIVE @ Rock am Ring 2009
⬇ Jaag By Shahin Badar [Official Music Video] || Artist Aloud || EDM || 2018
⬇ New Hindi Song - Shahin Badar Laila
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