Arash Labaf

Arash has said that the reason he chooses to sing in his native language is because of his deep attachment to Iran and Persian culture His debut album Arash was released by the Warner Music Sweden in June 2005 after he had finished college His singles Boro Boro Go Away and Temptation featuring Rebecca made it to the hit lists around Europe and their respective videos garnered significant airplay on more than 20 MTV outlets across the world In addition to successes in his home countries music charts namely Sweden and Iran the platinumselling singer and producer Arash has had hits notably in Eastern European and SouthEast European charts like Russia Ukraine Greece Bulgaria Poland Hungary Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Romania Turkey and in Asian music charts like in Tajikistan Kazakhstan Afghanistan Uzbekistan and throughout the Arab Middle Eastern countries His singles have charted many times on Swiss and Finnish charts and he is especially famous in Poland Arashs records were certified gold in 5 countries his album Arash in Germany Russia Slovenia and Greece and single Boro Boro in Sweden This song was also featured in the Hindi Bollywood film Bluffmaster and he was the featured Artist of the Month on MTV India Helena did not take part in the music video of Pure Love although her voice was used in it The video was starred by Arash together with the Venezuelan beauty queen Marianne Puglia Arash has produced along with Thomas Gson Robert Uhlmann and Johan Bejerholm the Swedish entry to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 Allt jag vill ha that was performed by Josefine Ridell In early 2009 it was revealed that the Azerbaijani entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 would be the song Always which was written and composed by Arash The song was performed by Aysel Teymurzadeh and Arash in a duet in Semifinal 2 of the Eurovision competition The song qualified for the Eurovision Song Contest final which took place on 16 May 2009 and was placed third