Zakarias Lekberg, better known as Zacke, is a Swedish rapper from
Luleå
Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...
in northern Sweden.
Early life
Zacke was born in
Stockholm
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, Sweden. His mother is Swedish but his father is from
Morocco
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. After his parents' break up, he and his mother moved to
Luleå
Luleå ( , , locally ; ; ) is a Cities in Sweden, city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the County Administrative Boards of Sweden, capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden. Luleå has 48,728 inhabitants in its urban ...
while he was still just a few years old.
Music career
Zacke released his first EP
Var här in 2003 and followed that with his second EP
Färdighaft which was produced by Emil Pettersson in 2004. Both of his EPs received good comments from critics and the track
Anna på glej from his second EP was played on
P3 for a while in 2004.
In 2010, he released his first real album
Visst är det vackert and it was a major hit and was praised by almost every reviewer. The album won the prize “Best hiphop” at
Manifestgalan in 2011.
In February 2013, Zacke released his second and his latest full length solo album Renhjärtat. Just like his previous album Renhjärtat gained good critics and Swedish music papers like Kingsize Magazine gave it 4 out of 5. Throughout his whole career Zacke has collaborated and made songs with some of Sweden's biggest artists such as
Movits,
Mattias Alkberg,
Oskar Linnros,
Timbuktu
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and
Alexander Juneblad. His close work with the group Movits (also from Luleå) led to a new group called Alaska started by Zacke and
Johan Rensfeldt from
Movits. The idea of the group was to make music that they did not think fitted their two main projects (Movits and Zacke). The duo´s first album Alaska was released in the summer of 2014.
Both
Visst är det vackert and
Renhjärtat were produced by
Anders Rensfeldt from
Movits.
Critics have praised Zacke ever since his first release in 2003 for his way of expressing himself throughout his lyrics.
Discography
Albums
* 2003 –
Var här (EP)
* 2004 –
Färdighaft (EP)
* 2010 –
Visst är det vackert
* 2013 –
Renhjärtat
* 2014 – Alaska (with Alaska)
* 2016 – Fattigkussen
* 2020 - Pengar. Frihet. Zakaria Jamal.
Singles
* 2008 – BS
* 2009 – Öppet idag
* 2009 – Förlorad generation
* 2009 – Spela mig på radion
* 2010 – 1000-0 till idioterna
* 2012 – Mammas nya kille
* 2012 – Utomlands
* 2012 – En skata flög
* 2012 – Minicall
* 2013 – Halvvägs
* 2015 – Det börjar med mig (with
Fatta man)
* 2020 – Ge dom allt
* 2020 – Solsidan
* 2020 – 100 mil (feat.
Movits!)
* 2020 – Kommer Hem (feat. Parham)
References
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1983 births
Living people
Swedish male rappers
Musicians from Stockholm