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. She now 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 CD format which also has her song was released in 2018.

“20 wonderful musicians and 4 years in the making, this album 'Up from the Dust' sums up everything I wanted Kaya Project to be from the very start. For this reason it's the first one I have chosen for this potential pressing” says UK composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Seb Taylor of the Kaya Project. None of the Kaya Project albums have ever been pressed up on Vinyl before, so this is really a big moment for the team.

The Kaya Project is the musical incarnation of Seb and Natasha Taylor. Based in the UK, the duo has achieved a name of world renowned via their anthology of eclectically flavoured Asian dub/world fusion albums ‘Walking Through’, Elixir’, ‘… &so it goes’, ‘Desert Phase’ and 'Firedance’. Seb plays guitar and many other instruments as well as adeptly handling the programming and production, while Natasha contributes vocals, keyboard and flute throughout the compositions. Over the years, they have performed Kaya Project live sets at events in Japan, Canada, the USA and Australia.

Shahin Badar on the other hand hit off with the multimillion selling album, 'Fat of The Land'  that made her 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'. 

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 Smack My Bitch Up were recently sampled by US Hip Hop Rapper Asap Ferg for his single Floor seats.

Badar 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 is currently in the country to promote the new single.