Eric Khaled Saade (born 29 October 1990) is a Swedish pop singer and children's television presenter. After two years with the boyband What's Up!, he left in February 2009 to pursue a solo career. Eric Saade will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany after winning the national Swedish selection Melodifestivalen 2011 with his entry "Popular".
Saade grew up in Kattarp outside Helsingborg to a Palestinian father born in Lebanon and Swedish mother, who divorced when Saade was four.[3] He is the second of eight siblings and half siblings. Saade began writing songs at age 13. Football had been Saade's number one interest up until he signed his first music contract at 15, which resulted in one album and three singles. None of them charted. He also came to prominence after he won the Swedish music contest Joker .
Member of What's Up!
INTERNATIONAL FANS!
Hello all the International Fans of ERIC SAADE!
Eric is at his start of his career, not at least in Europe. Hopefully his Upcoming album will be The Debut album for Europe!
He is right now on a swedish "Mini Tour"! It's a "meet and greet" tour. He plays about 3 songs live with one musician on keyboard, and then has an autograph session to thank everyone of his swedish fans for the support. This is why he still Writes a lot in Swedish on the facebook fansite. He needs to communicate with his audience in Sweden during the tour. But it will be more and more english from now on.
Melodifestivalen 2011
On 19 February 2011, Eric Saade competed in the third semi-final in Cloetta Center, Linköping, of Melodifestivalen 2011 (the Swedish Eurovision selection process for Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany. His performance of his entry "Popular", written by Fredrik Kempe, got the most votes in the semi-final. Thus Saade competed in the Swedish final on March 12, 2011 where he won both the Swedish televoting and the international juries voting from 11 countries (getting the maximum 12 points from juries from France, United Kingdom and Malta and 10 points from the Ukraine and Irish juries and 8 points each from Greek and Croatian juries).
Table for the top three at Melodifestvalen was as follows:
Place Artist Song Votes
Juries Viewers Total
1 Eric Saade "Popular" 81 112 193
2 Danny Saucedo "In the Club" 79 70 149
3 The Moniker "Oh My God!" 55 69 124
