Strand Three Profiles and Interviews - Ms. Shahin Badar

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Ms. Shahin Badar

Interview date: 13 _ Apr _ 06

Interviewed by: Jamil Iqbal

Ms. Badar is one of the female Bengali front runners of innovative musical collaboration with her blend of Indo-Arabic vocal resonance. Whilst many South Asian acts are now hitting the UK top 10 and international territories with their collaborations, she was one of the first to do so back in the late 1990s with her controversial contribution to the Prodigy single ‘Smack My Bitch Up’, which brought her a mainstream Triple Platinum award and a ‘Fat of The Land’ album which entered the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest selling UK album in 1999. The album was also nominated for a Grammy Award