Toy-Box
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Toy-Box was a Danish pop group formed in the 1990s. It consists of two members, both vocalists: Anila Mirza and Amir El-Falaki. Anila was born 8 October 1974 in Hillerød, Denmark to a half Pakastani half Persian mother and an Indian father. Amir was born 12 August 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1999, they had some success in the Scandinavian music charts with a bubblegum pop song from their album Fantastic, named Tarzan & Jane.
Toy-Box's first album, Fantastic, included the hits "The Sailor Song", "Best Friend", Super-Duper-Man, "Teddy-Bear" and "Tarzan & Jane". It was released in September, 1999 and followed in 2001 by a second album, Toyride, which included fan-favourite songs "Www.girl", "Prince of Arabia" and "Wizard of Oz".
The group's break-up has not been officially announced. Amir is working as a dance teacher, music video choreographer and trainer to F.C. Copenhagen's cheerleading team. Anila changed her name to Aneela and begun a solo career, to limited success. When asked about another Toy-Box release, Aneela stated, "I don't know, anything's possible."
Toy-Box are often compared to their fellow Scandinavian band Aqua, and due to their rise to success after Aqua, are often considered to be a copy of Aqua. Their song "Tarzan and Jane" is often mis-credited to Aqua, as is "Best Friend", due to the huge likenesses between the vocals of Anila and Lene Nystrøm Rasted, and Amir and René Dif. And some themes looks like: "Best Friend" => "Barbie Girl" / "Super Duper Man" => "Cartoon Heroes" / "Tarzan and Jane" => "Doctor Jones" / "The Sailor Song" => "We Belong to the Sea". Toy Box are occasionally mis-credited with the song "Butterfly" by Smile.dk largely due to distributions of the song on peer-to-peer networks being tagged as by the group.
[edit] Discography
Albums
- Fantastic [1999]
- Fantastic (Christmas Edition *RARE*) [2000]
- Toy-Ride [2001]
Singles
- Tarzan & Jane
- Sailor Song
- Best Friend
- Teddybear
- Superstar
- WWW.Girl (Promo)
[edit] Trivia
The song E.T. has been used as a parody in the Gidol online competition by duo W.C (Wessel & Christiaan). [1] This particular video won the competition for W.C. [2]. See the video in Google Video.
