- Blend saleh
Blend Saleh born
21 september 1978 is a Kurdish pop singer.Life
Blend was born in
Anbar (Ramadi ), a city in the south ofIraq on September 21, 1978. His parents were forced to live there for political reasons. After a couple of months, Blend and his family moved back toHawler , their original home city in the south ofKurdistan . Here, he grew up with his parents, two sisters and one brother. His father originally came fromZaxo and his mother fromShaqlawe .The first time Blend performed, he was only six years old. It was in Hawler in the school where the show was being shot by the Kurdish Kirkuk television. He sang a song in
Bahdini and another one inSorani . At the age of eight, Blend was recommended to start playing an instrument byTehsin Teha , one of the biggest Kurdish singers. Violin was the instrument of choice for Blend, and he started taking lessons.As early as eight years of age, Blend began entering different bands in Hawler, with various great musicians.
In 1991 Blend and his family moved to
Sweden . This was a great opportunity for Blend to increase his musical experience and make use of his talent as a violinist. Blend started entering various Swedish youth orchestras. However, this was not enough for him, so he soon started working with other Kurdish artists, mainly in Sweden, as a violinist and a composer.Being interested in science, Blend moved to
Uppsala in the year 2000 after high school to study pharmacy at theUppsala University . He is now a graduatePharmacist .Since music has been Blend’s biggest passion, he started producing an album, a mix of vocal and instrumental songs with the violin as a solo instrument. His debut album “Berivan” was released on March 15, 2002. Songs as “Pemekene” and “Berivan” became hits when Blend made music videos to them.
Three years later, in 2005, Blend’s second album arrived, titled “Lê Canê”. It consists songs in Sorani dialect and
Kurdmanji as well. Also on this album Blend made instrumental versions of songs, because he didn’t want to forget his career as a violinist.Links
* [http://www.blendonline.com/home.asp Official website]
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