Laleh Pourkarim (Persian: لاله پورکریم‎, IPA: [lÉ'Ë leje
puË É¾kæɾiË m];[stress?] born 10 June 1982), known mononymously as
Laleh (Swedish: [ˈlÉ'ÌŒË lÉ›]), is an Iranian-Swedish
singer-songwriter, record producer, guitarist, pianist, actress and
record company manager. 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 seven further albums,
all of which have been produced, written, recorded, engineered and
performed by herself. 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. It also went double platinum in Sweden and gave Laleh her
second chart-hit in Denmark and first in Finland. Colors, was released
across Scandinavia in October 2013. She signed to Island Records in
January 2014, and followed with the September 2014 release of the Boom
EP. In 2016 she released the album Kristaller and in 2019 the album
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