Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui is a 39-year-old Swedish singer of Moroccan descent. She grew up in a secular and liberal Muslim home.
The woman who already won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and is currently ranked first in the betting charts, broke into consciousness in 2004 when she took part in the Swedish reality show Idol and came in fourth place. A year later she released her first single, but unfortunately the buzz around her faded and she took a break from promoting her singing career and switched to producing and directing reality shows in Sweden.
2011 marked the year of her musical comeback, when she competed for the first time in Melodifestivalen (the Swedish pre-Eurovision Song Contest) with the song "My Heart Is Refusing Me". The song made it to the lifeline stage but did not make it to the final. A year later, Lorin returned to the Melodifestivalen stage with the song "Euphoria" and won first place in the preliminary. The song with the obligatory name proved its strength again and won the Eurovision Song Contest held that year in Azerbaijan.
In 2017, Lorin decided to return to Melodifestivalen for the third time with the song "Statements", with which she qualified for the lifeline stage, but was unexpectedly eliminated from the competition despite being marked as the favorite to win. This year she returned to promote for the fourth time with the song "Tattoo", which he famously won and brought her to the Liverpool stage in an attempt to win the competition for the second time.
Like her previous winning hit, "Tattoo" is also acclaimed and has amassed tens of millions of views on social media. Of course, a song that arouses a lot of interest like "Tattoo" will also come with the obvious dose of scandals. In this case, the leading claim is that the chorus of the song was stolen from the song V Plenu by singer Mika Newton, who finished fourth in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2011. Another claim is that there are similarities to Adele's hit "Easy On Me". ABBA is also mentioned in this context with the hit song "The Winner Takes It All" and the Spanish band Pont Aeris with the song "Flying Free".
Lorin says the meticulous show is meant to represent her connection to all four elements: water, air, fire and earth. Regarding her connection to the land, she also said that she buries her nails in the ground to strengthen the connection and "feel nature." The formidable nails she appears with are made in case you were wondering of quartz blushes (brown quartz stone).
In 2017, she confirmed on the Swedish interview show Renées brygga that she defines herself as bisexual. She is very proud of her Moroccan and Muslim roots. "Be proud of your Arab heritage," she said in an interview with Vogue Arbia. "Let them inspire you when you create and never let anyone make you feel ashamed."
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