It used to be when you mentioned Sweden, you thought of IKEA, or Abba, or Spotify, or Minecraft. Well very soon – and you heard it here first – the big Sweden name association will be Darin. How I found this out was at the Swedish Ambassador’s house, where I was invited to attend a private concert for Darin. My first reaction was ‘Darin who?’ I soon found out that Darin is this sweet, incredibly gifted 27 year old four-time platinum popstar who’s leaving a trail of swooning fans in his wake – from Stockholm to Malaysia to China to Brazil. When I met him at the ambassador’s house he was accompanied by Sony reps who were thrilled to announce that they’d just signed him on their label.
For the fun of it I took my 12 year old daughter Sara with me to the event, and she came in handy videotaping my interview with Darin. She wasn’t, however, quite as reliable transcribing the video. In fact, she convinced me that it’s far better to share a few lines of the interview she transcribed here, and point everyone to the actual video of my interview online. And so… here is the start of my conversation with Darin – as Sara wrote it/ unedited!
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[A lot of talk about the weather… Sana: I would love to be in Sweden right now. Yadda yadda yadda]
Sana: Darin you have an amazing voice.
Darin: Yes- thank you so much.
Sana: I’m just really impressed. We would like to share some questions, and we’re gonna [sic] get a lot of information from the Sony guys. Just a few nuggets of information… insites [sic] about you.
Darin: Well, I’m origanally [sic] from Kurdistan…
Sana: Love it.
Darin: But I was born in Stockholm, Sweden. So i grew up there, born and raised. and I grew up in a musical family, like my mom always played instruments like violin, piano, cello and guitar. And my parents both singing proffesionally [sic]
Sana: One sec, Sara your taping the whole thing, right?
Sara: yes
Sana: k
Darin: And so yeah…so music it’s always been a part of my life, since I was little I’ve been singing as long as I can remember.
Sana: wow.
Darin: And then I started writing songs for other artists when I was 14, so I started writing early. and then I got signed myself when I was like16/17, so I’ve released 7 albums now, and the latest on is, um, the latest one is ‘Exit’.
Sana: wow.
Darin: I have a number one hit this week actually.
Sana: How do you keep yourself grounded? Mumble, mumble.
Darin: That’s a good question. You have to be yourself. When you’re young and you get big so fast its easy to lose yourself. I had a lot of good people around me…for me myself, it is important to be myself.
Watch the complete interview here!
- COOL FACTS ABOUT DARIN
- Darin was born to Kurdish parents
- Darin started writing and recording songs at the age of 14.
- Darin announced that his new album is titledFjärilar i magen.
- In 2007, Leona Lewis covered Darin’s ballad “Homeless” for her debut album Spirit
- Darin wrote a song called “Turn It Up”, originally on the track list for his album Lovekiller, but gave it to the British girl group, A Girl Called Alice.
