Loreen
Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui (Arabic: لورين زينب نورا طلحاوي, Berber languages: ⵍⵓⵔⵉⵏ ⵣⵉⵏⴱ ⵏⵓⵕⴰ ⵟⵍⵃⴰⵡⵉ; born 16 October 1983), known professionally as Loreen (Swedish: [lɔˈreːn]), is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023 with the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo" respectively. She is the second performer, after Johnny Logan, to win the contest twice, and the first woman to do so.
Interested in becoming a musician, Loreen finished fourth in the Idol 2004 television competition. The following year, she released her first single, "The Snake", with the band Rob'n'Raz, and became a television presenter on TV400. While working as a segment producer and director for several Swedish reality TV shows, she entered Melodifestivalen 2011 with the song "My Heart Is Refusing Me", which became a top 10 hit in Sweden. She had two top 20 hits in Sweden with the singles "Crying Out Your Name" (2012) and her Melodifestivalen 2017 entry "Statements".
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