Laleh (singer)

Laleh (2009)

Laleh Pourkarim (born June 10, 1982 in Bandar Anzali , Iran ) is a Swedish musician and actress of Iranian descent who performs under her stage name Laleh .

Career

When she was one year old, her parents fled Iran with her. Via Azerbaijan , Minsk , East Berlin and Tidaholm , they finally landed in Gothenburg , where Laleh received a musical training at Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet .

In 2000, Laleh played the role of Yasmin in Josef Fares ' film Jalla! Yeah! .

On February 5, 2005, their first single, Invisible (My Song), was released on the Warner label . It immediately broke her through and became a top ten hit. Her debut album, named after her, rose to number 10 in the album charts, stayed in the charts for months and then rose to number 1 in early 2006 . In the following years Laleh was able to establish herself as a top Swedish artist, especially with her albums.

In January 2012 her second number one album Sjung was released with the single Some Die Young . The song was also discovered in neighboring Norway and used as background music for reporting on the Breivik trial, which dealt with the many young people who died in the 2011 attacks in Norway . The song rose to the top of the chart in Norway and was her third top ten hit in Sweden. A year later it was also released in Germany and hit the charts there in September.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		SE	NO
2005	Laleh	SE1 (71 weeks) SE	-
2006	Prinsessor	SE3 (29 weeks) SE	-
2009	Me and Simon	SE2 (14 weeks) SE	-
2012	Sjung	SE1 platinum (53 weeks)SE	NO1 gold (37 weeks)NO
2013	Colors	SE2 gold (53 weeks)SE	NO4 (3 weeks) NO
2016	Crystal	SE2 gold (54 weeks)SE	NO18 (1 week) NO
2019	Vänta!	SE4 (25 weeks) SE	-
	Postcards	SE33 (4 weeks) SE	-

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		SE	DK	NO	DE	AT
2005	Invisible (My Song) Laleh	SE7 (8 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
	Live Tomorrow Laleh	SE20 (22 weeks) SE	DK11 (5 weeks) DK	-	-	-
2006	Forgive but Not Forget Laleh	SE46 (1 week) SE	-	-	-	-
2008	Snö Me and Simon	SE14 (9 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
2009	Simon Says Me and Simon	SE41 (3 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
	Big City Love Me and Simon	SE32 (2 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
2012	Some Die Young Sjung	SE9 × 2 Double platinum (37 weeks)SE	DK38 (1 week) DK	NO1 × 14 14 times platinum (31 weeks)NO	DE68 (7 weeks) DE	AT8 (15 weeks) AT
2013	Colors Colors	SE33 (4 weeks) SE	DK34 (1 week) DK	-	-	-
2016	Bara få va mig själv Kristaller	SE5 × 4 Quadruple platinum (68 weeks)SE	-	-	-	-
	Aldrig bli som for crystallizers	SE19th platinum (13 weeks)SE	-	-	-	-
2019	Tack förlåt Vänta!	SE15 (9 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
	Knock Knock Vänta!	SE95 (1 week) SE	-	-	-	-
	Sand covers Vänta!	SE34 (5 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
	Svenska 2 Vänta!	SE90 (1 week) SE	-	-	-	-
2020	Det kommer bli bra	SE14 (... weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2011	Just nu Tolkningarna	SE25 (8 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
	Angeling i rummet Tolkningarna	SE6 (15 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
	All vill till Himmelen men ingen vill do Tolkningarna	SE25 (6 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
	Here I Go Again Tolkningarna	SE41 (3 weeks) SE	-	-	-	-
2016	Work crystallizer	SE90 (1 week) SE	-	-	-	-

More singles

• 2005: Storebror
• 2006: Det är vi som bestämmer (Vem har lurat alla barnen)
• 2006: November
• 2007: Call on Me
• 2007: Closer
• 2009: Bjurö klubb
• 2010: Mysteries
• 2012: Vårens första dag
• 2013: Colors
• 2016: Welcome to the Show (with Adam Lambert )

Awards

• In 2005 Laleh won the Rockbjörnen music award from the newspaper Aftonbladet in the categories “Artist of the year” ( Årets kvinnliga artist ) and “Newcomer of the year” ( Årets nykomling ) .
• In the same year she was selected by the listeners of the radio station P3 to the winner of the music award P3 Guld in the categories “Artist of the year” ( Årets kvinnliga artist ) and “Newcomer of the year” ( Årets nykomling ).
• Also in 2005, Laleh received three awards at the Swedish Grammar Awards as “Artist of the Year” ( Årets artist ), “Producer of the year” ( Årets producent ) and “Newcomer of the year” ( Årets nykomling ).
• In 2006 she received an Evert Taube scholarship , which rewards “singable poems or the setting of poems or special achievements in areas to which Evert Taube paid homage” (sångbar dikt eller tonsättning av dikter eller för framstående insatser inom områden som Evert Taube omhuldade ) .

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1. ^ "Some Die Young" has become a 22/7 song , on the University of Oslo website , May 21, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Sweden / Norway / Germany / Austria
3. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for Music Sales: SE , NO

Web links

Commons : Laleh  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of Laleh
• Laleh at Discogs (English)
• Laleh at the Internet Movie Database (English)