Eric Saade (Eric Khaled Saade) - famous Swedish pop singer, songwriter, Eurovision 2011 participant (representative of Sweden), TV presenter.
Biography
Eric was born on October 29, 1990 in the village of Kattarp, in the family of a Lebanese with Palestinian Walid Saade and a Swede with Estonian roots Marlene Jacobsson. His parents divorced when the boy was 4 years old. He lived with his mother, and his father visited him on weekends.
Eric has seven sisters and brothers.
Little Eric's biggest passion for music was football.
Career
Eric started writing songs at 13, and signed his first music contract at 15. He recorded his debut album and released three singles that led him to victory in the "Jocker" competition and made him popular.
At the age of 17, Saade was cast in the What's Up boy band. The group quickly gained popularity among the Swedes and in the spring of 2008 toured the country.
Together the guys released the album "In pose" and a couple of singles - "Go Girl!" and "If I Told You Once", and also recorded a Swedish version of the title theme for the hit Disney comedy "Summer Camp Rock" and dubbing.
In 2009, Eric made the decision to leave What's Up and go on a solo voyage.
In the same year Saade signed with Roxy Recordings and in December released his first single "Sleepless".
In 2010, Eric takes part in the Melodifestivalen 2010 with the song "Manboy" and takes third place, and his track goes double platinum. A couple of months later he released his debut studio LP "Masquerade", which later became "gold". Eric embarks on a tour of the same name with the album.
In 2011, Saade again tries his hand at "Melodifestivalen" and this time with the song "Popular" wins, getting the right to represent Sweden at Eurovision 2011.
In the Eurovision final, Eric finished third, showing Sweden's best result since 1999 and receiving a new platinum for his collection.
On June 29, 2011, Saade released the next studio LP "Saade Vol. 1", in the same year the second part of the album - "Saade Vol. 2" was released. Both albums were successful on the charts and had a huge following. At home, the performer became a real star and went on to perform with the "Made of Pop Concert" tour.
In 2013 he released a new album "Forgive me", in support of which three singles were released: "Coming Home", "Forgive Me", "Boomeran" and received 6 nominations for the "Scandipop Awards", and also played 15 concerts on the "Pop Explosion Concert ".
In 2015 he performed for the third time on "Melodifestivalen" with a new song "Sting", and in May of the same year he released another single "Girl From Sweden".
Personal life
For 5 years he met with the representative of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest from Sweden, Molly Sunden.
Now he is in a relationship with blogger Nicole Falciani.
