All about Europe’s newest star Loreen

Start Of Her CareerLoreen is a 29 year old girl from Stockholm, Sweden. She came to fame in her own country in 2004 When she entered Swedish idol Where she managed to finish 4th. After her success on Idol She released a promo single called “The Snake” With Swedish duo Rob’n’Raz, After she released the single she went on To work as a director for shows Frufritt and Matakuten.

Return To Singing In 2011 Loreen returned to her singing By entering Melodifestivalen With the song “My Heart Is Refusing Me” Which came 4th in her heat and qualified her For a spot in the 2nd chance round Were she lost to Sara Varga “Spring For Livet”. Loreen returned to Melodifestivalen in 2012 This time with the song “Euphoria” Which came 1st in her heat and went on to win Melodifestivalenwhich meant Loreen won the spot to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.

Eurovision & Debut AlbumOn May 26th Loreen sang at Eurovision for Sweden and after the voting Loreen had 268 points witch meant she was the winner, The week after her victory her winning song “Euphoria” took an unexpected rise in the UK charts (As well as many other countries) and managed to chart at no 3 the highest spot for a non UK entry since Johnny Logan’s “Hold Me Now” in 1987. A few months after her victory Loreen released her debut album Heal with charted in many countries even no 1 in Sweden.

James started life as a privileged child and was privately educated in Bahrain before moving back to the UK when he was 14 when his parents divorced. After his parent’s divorce was final James moved in with his mother before having a break down and spiraling out of control.

After James anger started to get worse his mother chucked him out of the house and he was forced to live on the streets at the age of 15. James started to steal food from his local supermarkets to survive, He said in an interview “I went to supermarkets like Sainsbury and filled up a shopping bag to try and steal enough food for the week.”

After finding it hard to survive James put himself into foster care but said he found it extremely

difficult living with a foster family because he could not be with his four sisters.

James also spoke out during an interview to say at his first audition on X Factor was

the first time in 22 years his whole family were together in the same place.

James also admitted he almost missed his audition because he could not afford the train fare and had to beg his mum for £10

to buy his ticket even though he had not properly talked to her in a few years.

After James made the live shows he started out as a Underdog to win the competition but as the

weeks progressed he started gaining more and more public support but during week 2 After singing

“No More Drama” James had An Anxiety attack backstage and was helped by fellow finalist

Rylan and his mentor Nicole to an ambulance were they said he would not need to go to hospital

but would need a decent nights rest.

Not so long ago James Arthur won The X Factor 2012 with his rendition of Shontelles “Impossible” But hear you will read James life so far.

X Factor winner James Arthur

A few weeks later James found himself in the bottom 2 against bookies favorite Ella Henderson wich was described as the biggest shock in X Factor history but after the judges were split on who to send through it was announced James had more votes than Ella so would progress through to the next stage and made the final.

During the final of the show James admitted to his mentor Nicolethat he had been diagnosed with Depression & Anxiety disorder a few years ago and had thought about ending it all before entering X Factor. Also during the final heshowed Nicole his bench were he had been slept when he was homeless and opened up to her that he had some dark times there. On the grand final James admitted he wanted to win to inspire his sisters to go for there dreams to and to also make them proud of him for once, later on that night they showed a video of his sister’s saying how proud they were of James and that he has inspired them too go for there dreams to which brought a tear to James eye.

During the final results it was announced James was the winner with 54% of the public votes, an hour after the show has finished it had emerged that James was already number one on ITunes. And also James was told that he was the first act ever to win X Factor UK after being in a bottom 2.

After the show on Xtra factor James said that he now wants to record an album of his own songs and hopes that this is going to be his big break. He also said in a interview that this is not the first time he has auditioned for a Singing competition because he auditioned for The Voice UK 2012 but only made it to the final 200. On December 16 James was No 1 in the charts with 490,00 downloads.

1. Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen

2. We Are Never Ever Getting back togther Taylor Swift

3. Impossible James Arthur

4. Skyfall Adele

5. Hall Of Fame The Script ft Will.i.am

6. Good TimeCarly Rae Jepsen & Owl City

7. Candy Robbie Williams

8. Live While We’re YoungOne Direction

9. Gangnam Style PSY

10. Troublemaker Olly Murs ft Flo-rida

Top 10 Hits of

2012