| Loreen (Lorine Zineb Noka Talhaoui) performing Euphoria live at Melodifestivalen 2012. This film show the best moments with Loreen at melodifestivalen. She will represent Sweden in ESC 2012, Baku, Azerbaijan I say, the experts says, you say. We all says: Loreen will win the competition in Baku. Welcome Europe to Stockholm and Ericsson Globe in 2013! :) About Loreen: It came as no surprise when Loreen won Melodifestivalen, the Swedish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, but she did it with record figures; more than 670000 of the four million viewers called in to vote for her song Euphoria. Afterwards Loreen was simply overwhelmed: "A fantastic feeling, I almost started sobbing... but now I want to see what I can do better. Two months of preparation can do miracles!" Loreen (28) was raised on the countryside outside Stockholm, in a family of Moroccan-Berber origin. She has a very focused attitude to her music. She gets frustrated when she's tagged as an R&B artist: "It's almost bizarre. I never listen to R&B or soul music!" She continues: "The music I get inspiration from is music that gets you into kind of a trance. Both musically and vocal wise. Artists like Björk, some of Enya's music, and especially Lisa Gerrard". It's fitting that Loreen learned to play the piano by imitating the very minimalistic Michael Nyman score to the 90's film The Piano. Loreen continues: "I want to make music that really connects to my soul. I think that's when my music affects the most ... |
