Aneela Mirza (born 8 October 1974) is a Danish singer based in the United Kingdom.
[ She has found success as a member of the pop group ]Toy-Box
Toy-Box is a Danish bubblegum pop group, consisting of vocalists Anila Mirza and Amir El-Falaki. Mirza was born on 8 October 1974 in Frederiksværk, Denmark to Indian-Iranian-Pakistani parents. El-Falaki was born 12 August 1973 in Copenhag ...
and as a solo artist performing mononymously as Aneela.
She was part of the Danish pop group Toy-Box which enjoyed worldwide success in the late-1990s and early-2000s, selling over 4.5 million albums. The group released two albums of bubblegum dance music, ''Fantastic'' and ''Toy Ride'', and had several hit singles including " Tarzan & Jane" and " Best Friend".Arash
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According to Iranian folklore, the boundary between Iran and Turan was set by an arrow launched by Arash, after he put his own ...
with whom she worked on several other songs as well, including "Chori Chori" (which is set to the tune of Snow
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It consists of frozen crystalline water throughout ...
's song "Informer
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"). Apart from her solo career, Aneela has also produced and written for Danish artist Burhan G
Burhan Genç Koç (), known as Burhan G (born 20 January 1983), is a Danish R&B and pop singer, songwriter and producer. He has released three albums including '' Burhan G'' in 2010 and ''Din for evigt'', both certified platinum in Denmark. Hit ...
, R&B producer Saqib Saqib is the Persian pronunciation originally from the Arabic name, Thaqib (ثاقب ''thāqib''), is a masculine given name which means "influential notion of the well-chosen, the truthful".
Notable people with this name include:
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and many more.
Mirza is of Pakistani, Iranian and Indian descent, and grew up in Denmark and Pakistan.
Filmography
* ''Bombay Dreams
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'' – 2004
* ''Bluffmaster!
''Bluffmaster!'' is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language crime comedy film directed by Rohan Sippy and produced by Ramesh Sippy. The film stars Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Mishra, Boman Irani and Nana Patekar. It is a ...
'' – 2005 – " Say Na Say Na"
Discography
Albums
As a member of Toy-Box
* ''Fantastic
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Bulgarian-French structuralist literary critic Tzvetan Todorov originated the concept, charac ...
'' (1999)
* ''Toy Ride
''Toy Ride'', Toy-Box's second album, was released on July 28, 2001, with one version of the CD containing a 2-sided, 9-piece puzzle of the cover art.
Track list
# Superstar (Toy-Box song), Superstar (3:07)
# Russian Lullaby (3:17)
# www ...
'' (2001)
Solo
* ''Mahi'' (2006)
Singles
References
External links
Anila MirzaChori Chori
clip (captured in Poprad
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, Slovakia
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)
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1974 births
Living people
Danish emigrants to England
Danish people of Pakistani descent
Danish people of Iranian descent
English-language singers from Denmark
Extensive Music artists
21st-century Danish women singers