ABOUT ARASH


A dream, a song, a hit! With his song Boro Boro which seems to come directly from an oriental fairy tale. ARASH celebrated his dynamic deuce in the pop world! The Teheraner by birth which lives since his youth in the Swedish Malmö has conquered with his song in the Bollywood garment already the charts in whole Europe; now the Persian power presents his second album which is: Donya.

Arash is the name of a Persian people's hero after whom Arash's parents have called the 30-years old singer. After that Boro Boro had taken the VIVA-N-Rotation and the pop MTV2 freshlist in the storm, he shot right away on place 11 of the German charts! Especially the young people stand on the great mixture of oriental atmosphere and super danceable beats, and thus Boro Boro went not only to the German Airplay charts, but became also on thousands of mobile phones a hit and reached in the Jamba ring tone charts on MTV2pop the place 1! And also in the German TV, with "TOP Of The POP". The extremely good-looking ARASH cut a fine figure and do the fans to ecstasy.

Above all the east and south east of Europe is ARASH one of the most popular pop stars. In Kazakhstan ARASH played recently for 50,000 eager fans, and especially in Russia ARASH is already a superstar. After he has (!) even sings a Russian version of his second single Temptation , he gave for the birthday of the mayor of Moscow a private concert! And at the New Year night in 2006 he had appeared with Russian stars Blestaje together in the biggest Russian show RTR and, besides, had reached 150 million spectators!
In ARASHs adoptive country Sweden was Temptation on second place of the Sales charts and on first place of the Airplay charts. In East Europe Temptation has gone in 22 lands on MTV rotation, and also in Germany was the song on VIVA - N rotation.! The single is in Germany appeared on 6. January.2007!

On his first album unpacked ARASH his oriental inheritance and kidnapped the listener in a super modern version of the fairy tale of 1001 nights. A brilliant mixture of Persian sounds and the charming scrolling of the Bollywood style which we already know from the hyper romantic, colour-splendid Indian films combines with modern pop beats and pure earwig melodies. On his first album are, for example, groovy Temptation which mixes useful Euro beats with Persian harmonies and a powerful party hit to mention. Or Tike Tike Kardi and Bombay Dreams which conjure up East again. Besides, with Mano To ARASH can join on the row of the indophile hits which already became last year big dance floor success. And, at the end, the man knows what he does: As a songwriter and Producer who writes his tracks by himself and arranges in the studio he has the full control of his music and does exactly what he fancies. He produced the album accordingly even with some support of producer Robert Uhlmann.

ARASH was born in Teheran (Iran), and when his parents gave him the name of a Persian legend hero, they maybe anticipated that he would do his luck in the world. Like many Iranians, his parents left Persia in the eighties and went at first to the Swedish small town Uppsala and then to Malmö. ARASH started there to play music, and also in rather unconventional way. He defended himself against the chaffing of his class-mates with the crude jokes for which he was punished with arrest. This was even quite right to ARASH, because in the penal room of the school stood a piano on which he could practice according to heart desire, whenever he was disobedient...

Music became his life, and his life became the music, up to the day when ARASH lost his voice in winter few years ago for inexplicable reasons. The doctors had already given him up, and, in the end, his girlfriend left him in addition, so that ARASH drowned his grief with alcohol and worse things. And then happened the miracle: Unexpectedly and on a blow his voice came back. " Nobody knows why, " so he tells, " but it happened. I have cried for luck that I thought, the tears would never stop. "

In his "dumb" time he had written some songs - one was of it Boro Boro which became now his big hit and confirms with it life motto ARASHs. " Pursue your dreams, until they become true! " Boro Boro is the resignation song to the friend who had left him at that time: " Go your way, I will create it anyway, ", are the contents about... An honest statement of a person who has verified his 1001 dreams against all adversities.

With the single Boro Boro became ARASH known as a Swedish hit supplier with oriental fire. After the song get the place No. 1 in sweden 2 years ago it shaked our radio-tone, club tone and ringtone-charts too and in the Sales charts this musical dream from 1001 nights shot directly on 11. No much less successfully was the succession hit Temptation which cracked the top positions of all charts of East Europe. Now the only Swedish popstar who creates the musical connection of west and the east presents the next hit parcel: his second album Donya.

Three years after the debut Arash ARASH continues his amusing trip with a highly dynamic album which move the old fans into ecstasy and the new one becomes the ears opens ! Donya extends the typical ARASH sound since by amusing geographical details: the Caribbean grooving and the Mediterranean atmosphere! Rock, Hip Hop, dance and world music-ballads do the album to a diverse hit cannonade which proves that two years of hard work in the studio have been worthwhile! Already the first single, the title song Donya, is convincing with an excellent collaboration of ARASH and Shaggy which celebrated his breakthrough in 1995 with the mega hit Boombastic and the next Grammy, before he began a precipitous career with several multi-platinum singles and cooperations with Janet Jackson, Tony Braxton, Ali G., Chaka Khan and other! In addition, on the album, besides: US-radiostar Lumidee, the Swedish rap pioneer and several times excellent hit master Timbuktu and many other creative heads.

With 14 tracks steps Donya in the footprints of the first album which ARASH did in many European lands to a house number. In Sweden, Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Israel, Greece and Bulgaria as well as in the Ukraine, Turkey and Czech Republic cracked the dynamic man the charts – in most lands even with position 1 orders. There was in five lands gold, and in more than 35 lands found one ARASH highly placed in the Airplay charts. In Cannes he was honored already in 2005 as the most successful newcomer of Sweden at the international music market, and his song Boro Boro enriched the Bollywood-Blockbuster "bluff master" in which ARASH gave itself even his film debut as an actor. Then the sport Illustrated chose his 2006th world championship song „ Iran of Iran “ for his football-home team as one of three best songs of the genre. Then later in the same year two Russian Grammies were lent him and ARASH was celebrated as the most successful foreign artist in completely Russia.

The sun appears brightly for ARASH , and with Donya the candle of his success will become a luminous torch!

© WMGG/tbe-04/08 translated by Arashfans.info

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