Laleh Pourkarim
Laleh Pour Karim ( born June 10, 1982 in Bandar Anzali, Iran) is a Swedish musician and actress of Iranian descent, which occurs by her stage name Laleh.
Career
When she was a year old, her parents fled with her from Iran. Finally About Azerbaijan, Minsk, East Berlin and Tidaholm they landed in Gothenburg, where Laleh received a musical education at Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet.
In 2000 Laleh played the role of Yasmin in Josef Fares ' film Jalla! Jalla! .
On 5 February 2005, its first single Invisible ( My Song ) came on the label Warner on the market. She brought her immediately to breakthrough and became a Top Ten hit. Your named after her own debut album, then rose to # 10 in the album charts, held for months in the charts in early 2006 and then increased even ranked first in the following years Laleh was able to establish especially with their albums as Swedish Topkünstlerin.
In January 2012 her second number-one album was released with the single Sjung Some Die Young. The song was also discovered in neighboring Norway and used as background music for coverage for Breivik process in which it came to the many young people died in the attacks in Norway, 2011. The song rose in Norway to the chart peak was in Sweden and her third top ten hit. A year later it was also published in Germany and came here in September in the charts.
Discography
Albums
- 2005: Laleh
- 2006: Prinsessor
- 2009: Me and Simon
- 2012: Sjung
- 2013: Colors
Singles
- 2005: Invisible ( My Song )
- 2005: Storebror
- 2005: Live Tomorrow
- 2006: Forgive but Not Forget
- 2006: Det är vi som bestämmer ( Vem har Lurat alla Barney )
- 2006: November
- 2007: Call on Me
- 2007: Closer
- 2007: Snö
- 2009: Simon Says
- 2009: Big City Love
- 2009: Bjurö klubb
- 2010: Mysteries
- 2012: Some Die Young
- 2012: VARENS första dag
- 2013: Colors
Awards
- Laleh won the 2005 in the categories " Artist of the Year " ( Årets Kvinnliga artist) and " Newcomer of the Year " ( Årets nykomling ) the music prize Rockbjörnen the newspaper Aftonbladet.
- In the same year she was by the listeners of the radio station P3 to P3 Guld winner of the Music Prize in the categories " Artist of the Year " ( Årets Kvinnliga artist) and " Newcomer of the Year " ( Årets nykomling ) selected.
- Also in 2005, Laleh was three times awarded at the ceremony of the Swedish Grammismusikpreises as " Artist of the Year " ( Årets artist), " Producer of the Year " ( Årets producent ) and " Newcomer of the Year " ( Årets nykomling ).
- In 2006 she received a scholarship Evert Taube, the " singable poems or the setting of poems or special services in areas where Evert Taube homage " ( singable dikt eller tonsättning av dikter eller för framstående insatser inom områden som Evert Taube omhuldade ), rewarded.