Anaida has just had a release in English on the Prestigious Buddha Bar Compilation, "living Theatre volume one", which makes her the first ever Indian female pop artist to be featured on the same. The song is called "Good day to die" in English, was recorded in Greece, mixed in Germany and mastered in Netherlands. It is inspired by the American Indian tradition of celebrating death.

She had recorded her first international album 'Quest' and became the first indian pop singer to do an international project at all. How did it happen? "I'd gone to Los Angeles for the BMG world conference. They'd invited the highest selling artistes of different countries and I'd gone to represent India. Here I met Stefanos Korkolis the Greek star. Subsequently he wanted to dedicate a song to me. I went to greece and recorded the song which went gold in Greece. Just before that, she had recorded Quest for Bombay Boys and was carrying a scratch tape of the recording, which was heard by Joey Balin the producer of Stefanos Korkolis.He was impressed and the result was this international album Quest. Quest has three songs in the European version and four in the Indian version, which includes Anaida. The album has the number quest which has been re recorded andreproduced with different

instrumentation, and a alternative rave number called 'Faith is love' there's another one called 'Good day to die' inspired by the Red Indian tradition of celebrating death. The album has been recorded in Greece, mixed in Belgium and mastered in the Netherlands so it's journeyed through Europe and Anaida has turned director directing the video herself on a shoe string budget of less than three lakhs. But she is thrilled to have gotten this opportunity to go international. "This is the first international album out of India' she reveals proudly and people are asking me if I'm expecting a Grammy but that's too far off I feel plus there's always this element of bias against anything that is produced in India. It is different if you are based in London or something.

Anaida has half a dozen earlier albums in her kitty but Quest gives her special satisfaction "because it's the kind of music I listen to-it's in English and it's my kind of music. But my attitude is that for me to have done this album at all is an achievement-if it does well it's an added bonus. There's a huge music market out there today and getting recognition is a huge ball game."