Eric Saade

Eric Saade in Kattarp, Helsingborg, Sweden is a Swedish pop singer. He spent two years with the boy band Whats Up, leaving the band in February 2009 to pursue a solo career. After winning the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2011 with Popular Saade represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany, placing third.

Saade was born in Kattarp, Sweden to Walid Saade, a Palestinian from Lebanon, and Marlene Jacobsson, a Swede. After his parents divorced when he was four, he lived with his mother. Saade is the second of eight siblings and halfsiblings.

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