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Laleh Pourkarim ((ペルシア語:لاله پورکریم), ; born 10 June 1982) is a Swedish singer-songwriter and former actress.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Laleh Pourkarim )〕 Following a short acting career, she entered the music industry in 2005 with her self-titled debut album which peaked at number one in Sweden and went on to become the highest selling album of the year.〔 She has since released four further albums, all of which have been produced, written, recorded, engineered and performed by herself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Laleh Discography at Discogs )〕 She has sung in both English and Swedish, in addition to her parents’ native tongue, Persian. In 2011, she participated in the Swedish television show Så mycket bättre, which sees a number of artists create new interpretations of the others songs. Her performances on the show were lauded by both critics and the public. Following the show, it was noted in the media that she had been given "a second breakthrough". Her 2012 album, ''Sjung'', was released across Scandinavia on 25 January 2012 to generally positive reviews. The lead single from ''Sjung'', "Some Die Young" was a commercial hit across Scandinavia, peaking at number one in Norway for eight weeks and becoming the twentieth biggest selling single of all time in the country.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Of All Time )〕 It also went double platinum in Sweden and gave Laleh her second chart-hit in Denmark and first in Finland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=swedishcharts.com - Laleh - Some Die Young )〕 Her latest album, ''Colors'', was released across Scandinavia in October 2013. She signed to Island Records in January of 2014, and followed with the September 2014 release of the "Boom" EP. She uses her given name Laleh as her stage name. ==Background and personal life== Laleh was born in the Northern Iranian harbour town of Bandar-e Anzali, but fled the country a year later with her parents to live in Azerbaijan, and later moving on to Minsk and a refugee camp in Tidaholm. She moved to Sweden when she was twelve (she has dual citizenship), and in her teenage years moved to Gothenburg to attend school in the multicultural district of Angered. At Hvitfeldtska High School she was enrolled in the music program, growing up with classical music, ballet and circus music. She later got interested in punk, reggae and jazz music.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=laleh pa Nojestorget )〕 She also learned to play the guitar, and formed a jazz ensemble, Bejola, with her music teacher when she was a teenager, and went on to teach herself to play percussion and the saxophone. She is the daughter of Houshang Pourkarim, who drowned in August 1994. An opponent of the Islamic regime in Tehran, he was an artist, journalist and prominent Iranian ethnologist and rural sociologist from Bandar-e Anzali.〔 During her appearance on Så mycket bättre, she discussed her tough childhood, moving from country to country, and how she witnessed her father drowning in 1994, when he tried to rescue a woman in distress who had fallen from her canoe into the water while at a summer camp organised by an Iranian association. As Houshang paddled out to help her, the canoe overturned. The woman survived but Laleh's father drowned.〔 Laleh's mother, Atef, was a refugee from Georgia via Azerbaijan before she went to Iran to study comparative literature at the University of Tehran. Once the family arrived in Sweden, Laleh claims to have learned Swedish in only eleven days.〔 Beginning her career in acting, she had a major role in the Swedish movie ''Jalla! Jalla!'', directed by Josef Fares, which was a big success at the Swedish box office in 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Svenska filminstitutet – Laleh Pourkarim )〕 Laleh moved to Stockholm in 2010 following a short stint in Skellefteå. She has until 2011 become known for her reluctance to give interviews,〔 but has after that year been more visible in interviews, talk shows and other TV programs, something that has benefited her career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laleh (singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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