Laleh Pourkarim, better known as Laleh, burst onto the Swedish pop charts
in 2005 with a sophisticated set of songs that nodded to smooth adult
contemporary artists like Sting and Seal. The daughter of a well-regarded
Iranian sociologist, Laleh spent the majority of her childhood in Iran and
moved to Sweden when she was 12, where she learned to play the guitar. She
formed a jazz ensemble, Bejola, with her music teacher when she was a
teenager, and went on to teach herself to play percussion and saxophone.
She wrote, performed, and produced her self-titled debut, which was
released in the spring of 2005 on Warner.
"Kristaller" is Laleh's 6th full length album.