"Suddenly" is a
song
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetiti ...
by
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm ...
ian-
Swedish Persian pop
Iranian pop music or Persian pop music ( fa, موسیقی پاپ ایرانی) refers to pop music originated in Iran, with songs mainly in Persian and other regional Persian dialects of the country and region.
History Early Iranian popular music ...
singer
Arash
Arash the Archer ( fa, آرش کمانگیر ''Āraš-e Kamāngīr'') is a heroic archer-figure of Iranian mythology.
According to Iranian folklore, the boundary between Iran and Turan was set by an arrow launched by Arash, after he put his ow ...
for his second album
Donya. Featuring the Swedish singer
Rebecca Zadig
Rebecca Zadig (born July 27, 1982) is a Swedish singer․
Career
Rebecca Zadig was featured in Arash's song " Temptation". This song is a newer version of her own song "Temptation" which also featured Arash (then known as 'Alex'). Lyrics of th ...
. It was released by
Warner Music Sweden
Warner Music Sweden AB (previously Metronome Records) is a Swedish record company and label, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. Metronome Records was established in 1949 by Anders Burman, Lars Burman, and Börje Ekberg and was based in Stockhol ...
on June 19, 2008 becoming a summer hit in Sweden.
Content
The song is
Bilingual
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all Eu ...
. The main verses are sung by Arash in Persian and the chorus in English by Rebecca Zadig and contains a sample of Algerian classic
Abdel Kader.
A second version retitled "Près de toi" (near you) released one year later, featuring the
French-
Algeria
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raï
Raï (, ; ar, راي, Latn, ar, rāʾy, ), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called ''cheb'' (Arabic: شاب) (or ''shabab,'' i.e. young) as opposed to ''sheikh'' (Ara ...
singer
Najim Najim is an Arabic given name and a surname meaning " star". It may refer to:
People Given name
*Najim (singer), Algerian singer
*Najim Arshad (born 1986), Indian playback singer and music director
* Najim Haddouchi (born 1997), Dutch footballer o ...
and also Rebecca becoming trilingual French/Persian/English
Charts
Weekly charts
References
2008 songs
Arash (singer) songs
Songs written by Robert Uhlmann (composer)
Songs written by Arash (singer)
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