Laleh Pourkarim (born June 10 1982 in Bandar-e Anzali, Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish singer-songwriter. She came to Sweden when she was 12 and went to school in Angered, Gothenburg. Before that she had lived in Azerbaijan and Minsk, Belarus[LINK: http://www.shomaliha.com/zanan/laleh.html] Laleh Pourkarim: A girl from northern Iran (in Persian). She personally produced and wrote her 2005 self-titled debut album, in which she sang in three different languages: English, Swedish and Persian. At the Swedish Grammis Awards for 2005, she received seven nominations and won three: Artist of the Year, Producer of the Year, and New Artist of the Year. She also had a major acting role in the Swedish movie Jalla! Jalla!, directed by Josef Fares, which was a big success at the Swedish box office in 2000. She is a daughter of Houshang Pourkarim, a prominent Iranian sociologist from Band

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