Azerbaijan üçün mahnı 01 [CANCELED]

Croatia voted

Laleh was born in the Northern Iranian harbour town of Bandar-e Anzali, but fled the country a year later with her parents to live in Azerbaijan, and later moving on to Minsk and a refugee camp in Tidaholm.[2] Her given name means "tulip" in Persian. She moved to Sweden when she was nine (she has dual citizenship), and in her teenage years moved to Gothenburg to attend school in the multicultural district of Angered.[9]



At Hvitfeldtska High School she was enrolled in the music program, growing up with classical music, ballet and circus music. She was later interested in punk, reggae and jazz music.[10] She also learned to play guitar, and as a teenager formed a jazz ensemble with her music teacher named Bejola. She went on to teach herself to play percussion and saxophone.[11]



She is the daughter of Houshang Pourkarim, who died in 1994. An opponent of the Islamic regime in Tehran, he was an artist, journalist and prominent Iranian ethnologist and rural sociologist from Bandar-e Anzali.[9] During her appearance on Så mycket bättre, she discussed her tough childhood, moving from country to country, and how she witnessed her father's death. At a summer camp in 1994, he tried to rescue a woman who had fallen from her canoe into the water. As Houshang paddled out to help her, the canoe overturned. The woman survived but Laleh's father drowned.[2] Laleh's mother, Atef, was a refugee from Georgia via Azerbaijan before she went to Iran to study comparative literature at the University of Tehran. Once the family arrived in Sweden, Laleh learned Swedish in eleven days, according to a media account of her biography.[2]



Beginning her career in acting, she had a major role in the Swedish movie Jalla! Jalla!, directed by Josef Fares, which was a big success at the Swedish box office in 2000.[12] Laleh moved to Stockholm in 2010 following a short stint in Skellefteå.[13] Until 2011 she was known for her reluctance to give interviews,[2] but more recently she has been more accessible to the media, including appearing on talk shows and other TV programs, a move that has benefited her career.

Iran = Birthplace
Azerbaijan = Parents
Minsk = Refugee Camp
Sweden = She was moved there
= Parents were came from to Azerbaijan

Definitely Azerbaijan has a Smaller Connection and so Definitely to Disqualify Her??

Both Laleh and Arash are declined, sorry.
Their connection to Azerbaijan is really small, and I don’t want this to become another contest where people with 1% roots can represent any country like Aly Ryan. Yeah she already have participated before, but the rules changed long time ago. The only connection accepted is either the singer or their parents should be born in the country.

Okay Both are Deadz LMAO

That 2nd SOng is fully from Turkey