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Also known as Arash Labaf

Iranian singer

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Arash is a male singer, actor, record producer, and recording artist born in Tehran, Iran. He holds citizenship in both Iran and Sweden. His musical work spans genres including popular music, folk-pop, Iranian pop, and dance-pop. Arash began his professional career in 2003 and is signed to the record label Warner Music Group. He participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

The artist has received the Golden Gramophone Award. He speaks Persian and performs using his voice. His official website is arash.com. Arash has 3,150,000 social media followers. On Last.fm, his music is tagged with pop, dance, arabic, Persian, and Iranian.

Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Last.fm, TMDb, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1922
Works
7

Top works

  • Kalmyk manual
  • Problemy sovremennogo kalmykovedenii︠a︡
  • Kalmyk-English dictionary
  • Kalmyk-Oirat symposium
  • The Kalmyks, their ethnic, historical, religious, and cultural background

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Film & TV

Writing · Tehran, Iran

Arash has said that the reason he chooses to sing in his native language is because of his "deep attachment to Iran and Persian culture." His debut album, Arash, was released by the Warner Music Sweden in June 2005, after he had finished college. His singles, "Boro Boro" ("Go Away") and "Temptation" (featuring Rebecca) made it to the hit lists around Europe, and their respective videos garnered…

Known for

  • Behrouz: A Legend on Screen — Self2017
  • Rhino Season — Son2012
  • Fångarna på fortet — Self1990
  • Eurovision Song Contest — Self - Contestant1956

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Sweden
Active from
1977
clubcontemporary r&bdancedance-popfolk pophip hop

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
305,427
Total plays
3,767,581

Tags

popdancearabicPersianIranian

ARASH is a Platinum-selling Swedish singer and producer whose music is also certified gold in many European countries. Whether he’s singing in his mother tongue (Farsi) on his own chart-topping releases, singing in English with some of the worlds biggest names, including: Shaggy, Sean Paul, T-Pain and Snoop Dogg, he is the only artist of Persian heritage to release four albums and thirty singles that have sustained a high-level of success by topping the charts around the world. <a href="https://

via Last.fm · Arash

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Encyclopedic overview

Arash Labbaf (Persian: آرش لباف, pronounced [ɒːˈɾæʃ ɛ læbˈbɒːf], Azerbaijani: Arəş Ləbaf; born 23 April 1977) is an Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer, and producer.

He represented Azerbaijan along with Aysel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, finishing third with the song "Always". He is also one of the judges of Persia's Got Talent, a Persian franchise of the British talent show Got Talent.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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