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Arash
Musical artist

Arash Labaf (Template:Lang-fa, born 23 April 1977 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish singer, dancer, entertainer and producer, of Persian origin. In an interview with BBC Persian, he has mentioned that his mother and father are from the Iranian cities of Shiraz and Isfahan, respectively.


Early life

In an interview he states: "I was born in Tehran, Iran. At the age of 10, me and my family moved to Sweden and I live there now, but my great-grandfather was an Azeri." </ref> .

Arash Labaf grew up in Tehran, Iran up until the age of 10, his family moved to Uppsala, Sweden before moving to Malmö five years later. The city Arash consider as his hometown is Malmö,and thats were he lives, when he´s not on tour. He has two younger brothers, Ashkan Labaf, a doctor and Arsalan Labaf, a lawyer.

Career

His debut album, Arash, was released by the Warner Brothers Music in June 2005, after he had finished college. His singles, "Boro Boro" ("Go Away") and "Temptation" (featuring Rebecca Zadig) made it to the hit lists around Europe, and their respective videos garnered significant airplay on more than 20 MTV outlets across the world.

In addition to successes in his home countries' music charts, namely Sweden and Iran, the platinum-selling singer and producer Arash has had hits notably in Eastern European and South-East European charts like Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey and in Asian music charts like in Israel, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and throughout the Arab Middle Eastern countries.

He has got gold in 5 countries: Germany, Russia, Slovenia and Greece for his album, Arash, and in Sweden for "Boro Boro". This song was also featured in the Hindi Bollywood film "Bluffmaster" and he was The Artist of The Month on MTV India. He made a guest appearance in the movie as well as a DJ singing "Buro Buro". Arash has accumulated airplay on MTV outlets in more than 35 countries.

Arash is managed by former Warner Music A&R agent Henrik Uhlmann, and is represented in the United States by Mayar Zokaei.

Collaborations

Arash's claim to fame, his hit "Temptation" was a collaboration with Swedish singer Rebecca Zadig. Arash had an initial minor hit with the song done solo, but his duo with Rebecca Zadig made him much better known.

Another collaboration of Arash was with Indian-Persian-Pakistani-Danish singer Anila Mirza in the hit "Chori Chori" and the three-way collaboration between Arash / Aneela / Rebecca Zadig in "Bombay Dreams"

Arash has released a Russian song; "Восточные Сказки" (Vostotchyie Skazki) (featuring Блестящие Blestyashchie), a Russian version of "Temptation", in which he sings in Russian and the Russian version became a big hit in Russian charts.

DJ Aligator (also of Persian origin) appeared in Arash's music video for "Music is My Language" as the producer and rapper.

The song "Suddenly" features Rebecca Zadig.

In his 2006 album (Crossfade), Arash, DJ Aligator and Shahkar Bineshpajoo made a song for the Iranian Football team for their appearance in the 2006 World Cup.

Arash released in March 2008 his third album, "Donya," featuring amongst many, a reggae/dancehall influenced single and music video "Donya" in collaboration with Shaggy and the single "Kandi" featuring the New York star Lumidee.

From "Donya" he has so far released the title track Donya (featuring Shaggy), Suddenly (featuring Rebecca), Kandi (with Lumidee), Pure Love (featuring Helena) and soon to be the final single, Dasa Bala (featuring Timbuktu). Music videos were made for Donya, Suddenly and Pure Love, while Kandi was sent to radio only. It is not yet known is Dasa Bala will be released only to radio, or whether a music clip will be made for it.

In early 2009, it was revealed that the Azerbaijani entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 will be the song Always which was written and composed by Arash. The song was performed by Aysel Teymurzadeh and Arash in a duet in semifinal 2 of the Eurovision competition. It qualified for the final and on the Eurovision song contest final on Saturday 16th May 2009, scored as the third most popular song (narrowly missing out to Iceland for the 2nd place).

Discography

Studio albums

Arash (2005)

Track listing
  1. Boro Boro
  2. Yalla
  3. Tike tike kardi
  4. Baskon (feat. Timbuktu)
  5. Arash (feat. Helena)
  6. Temptation (feat. Rebecca)
  7. Bombay dreams (feat. Aneela and Rebecca)
  8. Behnaz
  9. Man o to
  10. Salamati
  11. Music Is My Language (feat. DJ Aligator)
  12. Ey yar begoo (feat. Ebi)
  13. Tike Tike kardi (Payami Lounge)
  14. Temptation (CMN Remix) (feat. Rebecca)
  15. Boro Boro (Bollywood Cafe Mix)

Donya (2008)

Track listing
  1. Intro
  2. Donya (feat. Shaggy)
  3. Suddenly (feat. Rebecca)
  4. Miduni Midunam
  5. Kandi (feat. Lumidee)
  6. Pure Love (feat. Helena)
  7. Naro
  8. Chori Chori (feat. Aneela)
  9. Laf Laf
  10. Joone Man
  11. Tanham
  12. Doset Nadaram
  13. Dasa Bala (feat. Timbuktu Yag)
  14. Donya (Payami Break Mix)

Remix albums

Crossfade - The Remix Album (2006)

Track listing
  1. Iran Iran (DJ Aligator Collaboration)
  2. Arash (MintmanRemix)
  3. Tike Tike Kardi (DJ Aligator Remix)
  4. Temptation (CMN Remix)
  5. Mano o Too (Feat Lucia)
  6. Boro Boro (Payami Funky Sunday Remix)
  7. Temptation (Russian Version with Blestjashie)
  8. Arash (English Version)
  9. Tike Tike Kardi (Balkan Fanatics Remix)
  10. Baskon (100% Persian Version)
  11. Bego Ey Yaar Bego (New Version)
  12. Boro Boro (Saba Rock Remix)
  13. Arash (Payami Vocal Club)
  14. Tike Tike Kardi (Sodaclub Remix)
  15. Temptation (Payami Club)
  16. Pure Love
  17. Boro Boro (Feat Aneela Indian Version)
  18. Baskon (Russian Version Bonus)

References

  1. rferl He says he chooses to sing in his native language because of his deep attachment to Iran and Persian culture
  2. Arash interview, by Behzad Bolour, published on 2005-02-11; http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2005/02/050211_ag-arash-interview.shtml (in Persian)
  3. Arash interview, by Behzad Bolour, published on 2005-02-11; http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2005/02/050211_ag-arash-interview.shtml (in Persian)
  4. http://en.itv.az/eurovisionsong/202.html
  5. http://eurovision.1tv.ru/member_id434_1.html
  6. http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/entertainment/2009/05/090516_eurovision_preview.shtml
  8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrjeC2NuNw
  10. Brey, Marco (2009-02-05). "Azerbaijani entry written by Arash". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 2009-02-05. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. Siim, Jarmo (2009-02-12). "Azerbaijan to send a duet to Eurovision". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 2009-02-12. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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Preceded byElnur & Samir Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest
(with AySel)
2009 		Succeeded byIncumbent
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