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Sign in to saveLorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui (Arabic: لورين زينب نورا طلحاوي, born 16 October 1983), known professionally as Loreen (), is a Swedish singer. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023 with the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo" respectively. She is the second performer, after Johnny Logan, to win the contest twice, and the first woman to do so.
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Loreen, born Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui on October 16, 1983, in Åkersberga, Sweden, is a Swedish singer, actor, and television presenter. She began her professional career in 2004 and performs in genres including pop, dance-pop, indie pop, and indie rock. Her musical works include the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo." Loreen speaks Swedish, English, Arabic, and Berber, with Swedish as her native language.
She has participated in Melodifestivalen in 2011, 2012, and 2017. Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest in both 2012 and 2023. Her musical style is also described as electropop, eurodance, and europop. In addition to singing, she works as a voice actor and plays the piano and guitar.
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Acting · Åkersberga, Stockholms län, Sweden
Lorine Talhaoui, known as Loreen, is a music artist and music composer from Sweden with Moroccan parents. She won Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023. Loreen is also an actress and voice actress. She has previously worked as a TV presenter and TV producer.
Known for
- 70 Jahre ESC - More than Music — Self (archive footage)2026
- MTV - Euphoria! 50 Eurovision Hits! — Self (archive footage)2025
- Eurovision Calling: Jason and Chelcee’s Ultimate Guide — Self2023
- Die Helene Fischer Show 2023 — Self2023
- Drag Race Sweden — Self - Guest Judge2023
- Eurovision... A Little Bit More — Self - Guest2023
- RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World — Self - Guest Judge2022
- JJ+E — María2021
- The A-Z of Eurovision — Self - Contestant (archive footage)2020
- Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga — Loreen2020
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1983
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Loreen (born Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui on October 16, 1983 in Västerås, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and music co-producer of Moroccan-Berber descent, who rose to international fame after winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, with chart topping "Euphoria". Later on going to once again win Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom with her successful song "Tattoo". <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Loreen">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Invasive Fungal Infections among Organ Transplant Recipients: Results of the Transplant‐Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET)
· 2010 · cited 1,381x
- Prospective Surveillance for Invasive Fungal Infections in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients, 2001–2006: Overview of the Transplant‐Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET) Database
· 2010 · cited 1,264x
- COVID-19 severity correlates with airway epithelium–immune cell interactions identified by single-cell analysis
· 2020 · cited 1,020x
- Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams
· 2020 · cited 909x
- Incidence of severe critical events in paediatric anaesthesia (APRICOT): a prospective multicentre observational study in 261 hospitals in Europe
· 2017 · cited 728x
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Key facts
- Musical artist.name
- Loreen
- Musical artist.background
- solo_singer
- Musical artist.image
- Loreen - Melodifestivalen 2023, Malmö 118 (cropped).jpg
- Musical artist.caption
- Loreen in February 2023
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui
- Musical artist.birth_place
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Musical artist.genre
- Dance-pop
- Musical artist.years_active
- 2004–present
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Music career
- 2004–2010: ''Idol''
- 2011–2013: Melodifestivalen, Eurovision Song Contest and ''Heal''
- 2014–2015: ''Paperlight'' project and touring
- 2016–2019: Melodifestivalen return, ''Nude'' and ''Ride''
- 2020–2024: ''Så mycket bättre'', acting debut, Melodifestivalen and Eurovision return
- 2025–present: SAGES and ''Wildfire''
- Political activism
- Personal life
- Discography
- Albums
- Tours and residencies
- Filmography
- Awards and nominations
- References
- External links
Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui (Arabic: لورين زينب نورا طلحاوي, born 16 October 1983), known professionally as Loreen (), is a Swedish singer. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023 with the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo" respectively. She is the second performer, after Johnny Logan, to win the contest twice, and the first woman to do so.
Interested in becoming a musician, Loreen finished fourth in the Idol 2004 television competition. The following year, she released her first single, "The Snake", with the band Rob'n'Raz, and became a television presenter on TV400. While working as a segment producer and director for several Swedish reality TV shows, she entered Melodifestivalen 2011 with the song "My Heart Is Refusing Me", which became a top 10 hit in Sweden. She had two top 20 hits in Sweden with the singles "Crying Out Your Name" (2012) and her Melodifestivalen 2017 entry "Statements".
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