Samir Badran
Samir Badran in 2014
Samir Badran in 2014
Background information
Birth nameSamir Gustav Badran
Born (1990-05-25) May 25, 1990
Linköping, Sweden
GenresPop
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • television personality
Instrument(s)Vocals
Years active2014–2022, 2023-
Labels

Samir Gustav Badran (Arabic: سمير غوستاف بدران; born May 25, 1990) is a Swedish television personality and singer. Since 2022 he has been working as a real estate agent.[1]

Career

In 2013, Badran participated in the reality series Paradise Hotel broadcast on TV3.[2] He also took part in Paradise Hotel again in the 2014 season for one week. Along with the fashion blogger Viktor Frisk, Badran started the music duo Samir & Viktor. In May 2014, the duo released their first single, "Success".[3] The song peaked at number one on the Swedish iTunes chart during its first week.[4] Samir & Viktor participated in Melodifestivalen 2015 with the song "Groupie", in a bid to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria.[5] They went for it a second time in 2016 with the song "Bada nakna", reaching twelfth place in the competition but hitting the number one spot on the Swedish DigiListan sales chart in February 2016. Badran then competed in the celebrity dance show Let's Dance 2017, which was broadcast on TV4 and he finished in fifth place. He also participated in Farmen VIP 2018, which was broadcast on TV4.[6] He was furthermore the co-presenter of Talang from 2019 to 2021.[7]

Personal life

Badran's father is a Palestinian and was born in the Gaza Strip; he has relatives in the area and visits them when it is possible.[8][9] In August 2014, a nine-year-old cousin of Badran was killed after the Israeli bombing of the UN school in Jabalia, Gaza.[8] He dated with Mikaela Samuelsson 2015.

In 2020, he confirmed that he was studying to become a real estate agent.[10] As of 2022, he works as a real estate agent at Mäklarhuset in Stockholm.[11]

Discography

Singles

Solo

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
SWE
[12]
"Vet att du vill ha mig"
(feat. Kevin)		 2014 19
[13]		 Non-album singles
"Karma Is A Bitch"[14] 2017 —
"När jag ligger med nån annan"
(with Sigrid Bernson)		 2018 68
[15]
"Portkod"
(with Anis don Demina and Nobel)		 2019 —[upper-alpha 1]

as Samir & Viktor

Notes

  1. ↑ "Portkod" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number seven on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Samir Badran är färdig mäklare – nu berättar han om livet: "Jag trivs som fan"". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  2. ↑ Samir Badran - Paradise Hotel 2013 Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 January 2015
  3. ↑ "Paradise Hotel Samir gör sommarplåga "Success" - Rockbjörnen - Musik - Nöjesbladet - Aftonbladet". Aftonbladet. 5 June 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Här spelar Samir och Viktor in musikvideon". Expressen. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Här är artisterna i Melodifestivalen". DN.SE. 24 November 2014. Archived from the original on 17 February 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Här är alla deltagare i Farmen VIP i TV4 Archived 2019-06-30 at the Wayback Machine nyheter24.se Retrieved 6 January 2019
  7. ↑ "Då är det premiär för Talang 2020! - Talang". tv4.se. Archived from the original on 19 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Samir: "Min kusin dödades i Gaza"". Aftonbladet. August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Tv-profilens kusinbarn dödad i skolattack". Expressen. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Samir Badrans oväntade karriärbyte: "Det är dags"". www.expressen.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  11. ↑ "Samir Badran, mäklare och säljarfavorit 2022". Hittamäklare (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  12. ↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discography Samir Badran". Swedish Charts Portal. Hung Medien (Steffen Hung). Archived from the original on 2016-12-27. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  13. ↑ "Sverigetopplistan - Sveriges Officiella Topplista". Archived from the original on 2015-12-26. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
  14. ↑ "Karma Is A Bitch by Samir Badran". Spotify. Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  15. ↑ "Sverigetopplistan – Sveriges Officiella Topplista". Sverigetopplistan. Archived from the original on 28 June 2009. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  16. ↑ "Veckolista Heatseeker, vecka 21". Sverigetopplistan. Archived from the original on 17 September 2019. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Samir Badran.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.