Darin Zanyar

Darin Zanyar ( born June 2, 1987 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish pop singer with Kurdish roots.

Life

It was in the year 2004 participants in the Swedish version of Pop Idol. Although he split the Idol audience, he made ​​it to the final of the show, where he was defeated by nine years older Daniel Lindström.

In February 2005, appeared Darin's first single, Money for Nothing, which became a huge success and won the first prize of the Swedish singles chart for four weeks. The subsequent album The Anthem was created with the help of stars such as Swedish producer Max Martin and singer Robyn, both of which could also internationally achieve success for themselves, and debuted at # 1 on the album chart and peaked in the 28th week Gold status.

Already in autumn 2005 followed Darin's second album, which surpassed the success of the first again. The album was named after him It reached # 1 and even platinum status and threw off three top 10 singles, including the second number 1 hit Step Up. He was also with all three singles and the album also in neighboring Finland, and also in Austria, successfully.

In the same year, Darin, whose parents had fled Iraq before Saddam Hussein's regime, elected by the northern European Kurds Kurds representation for the year. Among other music awards, he won a Swedish Grammis for his debut single and was awarded the 2006 Best Male Artist with a Rockbjörnen.

This brought the end of 2006 his third album, Break the news to the market. He becomes the third number - one albums in a row and once again managed Gold status.

Darin's music is very popular outside of Sweden. Two of his hits were already was covered by German and American bands. 2006 brought the German pop group Part Six the hit Want Ya! in their own version on the market; In the same year also US5 helped themselves to pieces and Darin Step Up used as the basis for the song In the Club.Aber the Asian band, the "w - inds " have his song "Want Ya " over and gecovert into Japanese.

Darin's first single, which was released in Germany, Insanity and was released on 20 July 2007 with the record label EMI.

On 7 December 2007 Darin's second single, Desire was released in Germany.

It took 2010 at Melodifestivalen, the Swedish pre-decision to Euro Vision Song Contest, 2010. With his song You're out of My Life he got to the finals, where he took fourth place in the victory of Anna Bergendahl.

For the royal wedding of Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling on June 19, 2010 This specially composed the song Can not Stop Love, which deals with the history of the couple and their struggle for the wedding and he sang live on Swedish television.

It took the end of 2012 to the third edition of the TV show Så mycket bättre part in the meet several musicians and mutually interpret songs of the other guests. Several of his cover versions subsequently arrived in the Swedish charts, with En apa som liknar dig, originally performed by Olle Ljungstrom he had in January 2013 his fourth number -one hit in his home country.

Discography

Studio albums

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