116-711: Nadir Khayat ( Arabic : نادر خياط , Nādir Ḵayyāṭ ; born 9 April 1972), also known as RedOne , is a Moroccan-Swedish record producer, record executive, singer and songwriter. He has worked in production for high-profile recording artists including Lady Gaga , Nicki Minaj , Jennifer Lopez , Enrique Iglesias , Shakira , Mariah Carey , One Direction , and Usher , among others. His credits include several hit songs on Billboard and international charts; pop , rock , R&B , house , hip hop , and dance music are his frequented musical genres. He established his namesake record label in 2010. RedOne has won three Grammy Awards from eight nominations. He also won Producer of
232-461: A Jennifer Lopez song to remix followed by a couple of demos for Menudo . RedOne was also entrusted the production role on Kat DeLuna's debut album 9 Lives (2007). In 2007, Alan Melina and Laurent Besencon, of New Heights Entertainment, the management company for Lady Gaga and RedOne, were introduced to each other. RedOne co-wrote and co-produced Gaga's debut studio album The Fame (2008), and its reissue The Fame Monster (2009), including
348-517: A Swedish Grammy and "Scandinavian Song of the Year". He went on to co-produce Darin's two albums The Anthem and self-titled album Darin alongside well-known producers like Ghost, Jörgen Elofsson , Arnthor Birgisson and George Samuelson. RedOne had crossover success with the Canadian singer and Juno Award Carl Henry with hits "I Wish" and "Little Mama". In the ensuing period, he went on to produce
464-501: A "mash-up" remix of Shakira 's " Hips Don't Lie " featuring Wyclef Jean and RedOne's "Bamboo". The remix was performed by Shakira and Wyclef Jean ahead of the World Cup final in Berlin to an estimated worldwide television audience of more than 1.2 billion. Although "Bamboo" helped establish him as a notable producer in the global marketplace, RedOne himself claimed that the song didn't have
580-635: A Swedish anti-bullying charity. In 2009, Darin performed the song Se på mej at Melodifestivalen 2009 as an interval act. In October 2009, Darin performed a cover of Coldplay 's " Viva la Vida " on Idol. The song was released as a single, and reached the number one on the Swedish singles chart, making it more successful than Coldplay's original in Sweden. In November 2009, it was announced that Darin would be participating in Melodifestivalen 2010 . He entered
696-441: A Week". He broke the Swedish singles chart record and had 6 top 10 songs on iTunes at the same time. On 21 November 2012, Sony Music Sweden released a collection of Darin's songs from his four albums. The collection is titled Det bästa av . In January 2013, Darin released his sixth studio album, Exit which went straight to number one on the Swedish album chart; becoming his fifth number one album. Darin had spent time in
812-562: A collection of related dialects that constitute the precursor of Arabic, first emerged during the Iron Age . Previously, the earliest attestation of Old Arabic was thought to be a single 1st century CE inscription in Sabaic script at Qaryat al-Faw , in southern present-day Saudi Arabia. However, this inscription does not participate in several of the key innovations of the Arabic language group, such as
928-473: A comfort urging us to celebrate life," was his own explanation of the song and its lyrics. In September of the same year, he released two more songs, "Alla ögon på mig" ("All eyes on me") and "Tvillingen" ("The Twin"). "Tvillingen" is also the name of his second Swedish album released in November. The album became his seventh number one album in Sweden and the single his second number one on Svensktoppen, as well as
1044-435: A corpus of poetic texts, in addition to Qur'an usage and Bedouin informants whom he considered to be reliable speakers of the ʿarabiyya . Arabic spread with the spread of Islam . Following the early Muslim conquests , Arabic gained vocabulary from Middle Persian and Turkish . In the early Abbasid period , many Classical Greek terms entered Arabic through translations carried out at Baghdad's House of Wisdom . By
1160-1077: A dialect of Arabic and written in the Latin alphabet . The Balkan languages, including Albanian, Greek , Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian , have also acquired many words of Arabic origin, mainly through direct contact with Ottoman Turkish . Arabic has influenced languages across the globe throughout its history, especially languages where Islam is the predominant religion and in countries that were conquered by Muslims. The most markedly influenced languages are Persian , Turkish , Hindustani ( Hindi and Urdu ), Kashmiri , Kurdish , Bosnian , Kazakh , Bengali , Malay ( Indonesian and Malaysian ), Maldivian , Pashto , Punjabi , Albanian , Armenian , Azerbaijani , Sicilian, Spanish, Greek, Bulgarian, Tagalog , Sindhi , Odia , Hebrew and African languages such as Hausa , Amharic , Tigrinya , Somali , Tamazight , and Swahili . Conversely, Arabic has borrowed some words (mostly nouns) from other languages, including its sister-language Aramaic, Persian, Greek, and Latin and to
1276-1275: A host of other artists. His international production credits include Lady Gaga , Britney Spears , Pitbull , Enrique Iglesias, Nicki Minaj, and through his own label 2101 Records Jennifer Lopez , Porcelain Black , Havana Brown , Mohombi , 7Lions. In addition, he has written for and produced for various artists, in alphabetical order: Akon , Marc Anthony , Justin Bieber , Birdman , Zander Bleck, Mary J Blige , Brandy , Alexandra Burke , Cassie , Cheb Khaled , Cher , Cross Gene , Taio Cruz , Kat DeLuna , Jason Derulo , Jade Ewen , Mylène Farmer , Livvi Franc , Sirusho , Selena Gomez , Ayumi Hamasaki , Enrique Iglesias , Inna , Jean-Roch , K'naan , Katia, Kika, Sean Kingston , KMC , Little Boots , Cher Lloyd , Pixie Lott , Austin Mahone , MIKA , Nicki Minaj , Mohombi , Nayer , Orianthi , Lionel Richie , Kelly Rowland , Paulina Rubio , Nicole Scherzinger , Space Cowboy , Usher , and Lil Wayne . Bands include: RBD , Backstreet Boys , Cheetah Girls , Dive Bella Dive, Far East Movement , Flipsyde , Jada , JLS , Love Generation , Midnight Red , New Kids on
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#17331158522131392-911: A huge hit with The ABBA Generation . RedOne co-produced two of their follow-up albums, Teen Spirit in 2001 and Pop 'Til You Drop in 2002 with some original songs like "...to the Music", "Slam" co-written with Flame, Hortlund, and J. Boogie and "Singled Out" co-written with AJ Junior , Dhani, Sara, Savan Kotecha , and ShawnDark in a bid to launch them as "more than just a cover band". After years of struggling, RedOne finally began to achieve recognition for his work in 2005. He wrote two songs for Daniel Lindström 's self-titled chart-topping album, " Break Free " and "My Love Won't Let You Down". RedOne then had his first number one on Sverigetopplistan with Darin Zanyar 's " Step Up ". The song, co-written by RedOne, Darin, and RedOne's frequent collaborator Bilal Hajji , won them
1508-483: A lesser extent and more recently from Turkish, English, French, and Italian. Arabic is spoken by as many as 380 million speakers, both native and non-native, in the Arab world, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world, and the fourth most used language on the internet in terms of users. It also serves as the liturgical language of more than 2 billion Muslims . In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Arabic
1624-677: A millennium before the modern period . Early lexicographers ( لُغَوِيُّون lughawiyyūn ) sought to explain words in the Quran that were unfamiliar or had a particular contextual meaning, and to identify words of non-Arabic origin that appear in the Quran. They gathered shawāhid ( شَوَاهِد 'instances of attested usage') from poetry and the speech of the Arabs—particularly the Bedouin ʾaʿrāb [ ar ] ( أَعْراب ) who were perceived to speak
1740-486: A musical family and began singing at an early age, citing Michael Jackson , Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston as some of his biggest inspirations. He started writing and recording songs at the age of 14 after being discovered by a music producer in school after a performance. Darin became nationally famous in 2004 when he participated in the first season of the Swedish Idol at the age of 16. He quickly became one of
1856-563: A new way, rather than the traditional one. I’m going to do it the RedOne way, which is creating different sounds with different people, doing the records I want to do". On 15 May 2018, Social Media Sensation Saad Abid helped RedOne Support Morocco's bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup under the #Maymkench2026. In the same year, he produced the song "Festival" where he collaborated with the Mexican YouTuber group Los Polinesios. In December 2021, he
1972-569: A number of Swedish and European pop acts. These included the Dutch pop band Ch!pz (2005), two songs Cariño Mio and Wanna Play by the Mexican teen group RBD for the album Rebels (2006), American Christina Milian in a remix of her track "L.O.V.E." as "L.O.V.E. (RedOne remix)" from her album Best Of , the Dutch singer EliZe in " Itsy Bitsy Spider " and Swedish Idol contestant and popular singer Ola Svensson in "Cops Come Knocking" and "Go Go Sweden",
2088-576: A result, many European languages have borrowed words from it. Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages (mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese , Catalan , and Sicilian ) owing to the proximity of Europe and the long-lasting Arabic cultural and linguistic presence, mainly in Southern Iberia, during the Al-Andalus era. Maltese is a Semitic language developed from
2204-462: A script derived from ASA attest to a language known as Hasaitic . On the northwestern frontier of Arabia, various languages known to scholars as Thamudic B , Thamudic D, Safaitic , and Hismaic are attested. The last two share important isoglosses with later forms of Arabic, leading scholars to theorize that Safaitic and Hismaic are early forms of Arabic and that they should be considered Old Arabic . Linguists generally believe that "Old Arabic",
2320-465: A single language, despite mutual incomprehensibility among differing spoken versions. From a linguistic standpoint, it is often said that the various spoken varieties of Arabic differ among each other collectively about as much as the Romance languages . This is an apt comparison in a number of ways. The period of divergence from a single spoken form is similar—perhaps 1500 years for Arabic, 2000 years for
2436-406: A song for Kat DeLuna , on an upcoming debut album of hers. RedOne started playing songs in front of the marketing team and label president Charlie Walk . After playing the song " Whine Up ", RedOne says, "Walk interrupted me and said, "Stop, you're a genius!" I couldn't believe it. We spent the rest of the time playing music and dancing, it was surreal". A subsequent meeting led to RedOne being given
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#17331158522132552-503: A type of Arabic. Cypriot Arabic is recognized as a minority language in Cyprus. The sociolinguistic situation of Arabic in modern times provides a prime example of the linguistic phenomenon of diglossia , which is the normal use of two separate varieties of the same language, usually in different social situations. Tawleed is the process of giving a new shade of meaning to an old classical word. For example, al-hatif lexicographically means
2668-499: A variety of regional vernacular Arabic dialects , which are not necessarily mutually intelligible. Classical Arabic is the language found in the Quran , used from the period of Pre-Islamic Arabia to that of the Abbasid Caliphate . Classical Arabic is prescriptive, according to the syntactic and grammatical norms laid down by classical grammarians (such as Sibawayh ) and the vocabulary defined in classical dictionaries (such as
2784-470: A wider audience." In the wake of the industrial revolution and European hegemony and colonialism , pioneering Arabic presses, such as the Amiri Press established by Muhammad Ali (1819), dramatically changed the diffusion and consumption of Arabic literature and publications. Rifa'a al-Tahtawi proposed the establishment of Madrasat al-Alsun in 1836 and led a translation campaign that highlighted
2900-727: Is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world . The ISO assigns language codes to 32 varieties of Arabic , including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic , which is derived from Classical Arabic . This distinction exists primarily among Western linguists; Arabic speakers themselves generally do not distinguish between Modern Standard Arabic and Classical Arabic, but rather refer to both as al-ʿarabiyyatu l-fuṣḥā ( اَلعَرَبِيَّةُ ٱلْفُصْحَىٰ "the eloquent Arabic") or simply al-fuṣḥā ( اَلْفُصْحَىٰ ). Arabic
3016-508: Is a Kurdish-Swedish pop singer and songwriter born in Stockholm . He first came into prominence on the television talent show Idol . Darin has released nine studio albums, eight of which have gone to number 1, making him one of Sweden's most successful recording artists. His most recent album, En annan jag , was released in 2023. Darin was born in Stockholm to Kurdish parents Shwan and Ashti, who are from Iraqi Kurdistan . He grew up in
3132-585: Is a minimum level of comprehension between all Arabic dialects, this level can increase or decrease based on geographic proximity: for example, Levantine and Gulf speakers understand each other much better than they do speakers from the Maghreb. The issue of diglossia between spoken and written language is a complicating factor: A single written form, differing sharply from any of the spoken varieties learned natively, unites several sometimes divergent spoken forms. For political reasons, Arabs mostly assert that they all speak
3248-542: Is a sister language rather than their direct ancestor. Arabia had a wide variety of Semitic languages in antiquity. The term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula , as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece . In the southwest, various Central Semitic languages both belonging to and outside the Ancient South Arabian family (e.g. Southern Thamudic) were spoken. It
3364-469: Is believed that the ancestors of the Modern South Arabian languages (non-Central Semitic languages) were spoken in southern Arabia at this time. To the north, in the oases of northern Hejaz , Dadanitic and Taymanitic held some prestige as inscriptional languages. In Najd and parts of western Arabia, a language known to scholars as Thamudic C is attested. In eastern Arabia, inscriptions in
3480-408: Is credited with establishing the rules of Arabic prosody . Al-Jahiz (776–868) proposed to Al-Akhfash al-Akbar an overhaul of the grammar of Arabic, but it would not come to pass for two centuries. The standardization of Arabic reached completion around the end of the 8th century. The first comprehensive description of the ʿarabiyya "Arabic", Sībawayhi's al - Kitāb , is based first of all upon
3596-468: Is credited with standardizing Arabic grammar , or an-naḥw ( النَّحو "the way" ), and pioneering a system of diacritics to differentiate consonants ( نقط الإعجام nuqaṭu‿l-i'jām "pointing for non-Arabs") and indicate vocalization ( التشكيل at-tashkīl ). Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718–786) compiled the first Arabic dictionary, Kitāb al-'Ayn ( كتاب العين "The Book of the Letter ع "), and
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3712-566: Is not present in the spoken varieties, but deletes Classical words that sound obsolete in MSA. In addition, MSA has borrowed or coined many terms for concepts that did not exist in Quranic times, and MSA continues to evolve. Some words have been borrowed from other languages—notice that transliteration mainly indicates spelling and not real pronunciation (e.g., فِلْم film 'film' or ديمقراطية dīmuqrāṭiyyah 'democracy'). The current preference
3828-836: Is official in Mali and recognized as a minority language in Morocco, while the Senegalese government adopted the Latin script to write it. Maltese is official in (predominantly Catholic ) Malta and written with the Latin script . Linguists agree that it is a variety of spoken Arabic, descended from Siculo-Arabic , though it has experienced extensive changes as a result of sustained and intensive contact with Italo-Romance varieties, and more recently also with English. Due to "a mix of social, cultural, historical, political, and indeed linguistic factors", many Maltese people today consider their language Semitic but not
3944-559: Is the third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations , and the liturgical language of Islam . Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. During the Middle Ages , Arabic was a major vehicle of culture and learning, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As
4060-584: Is the variety used in most current, printed Arabic publications, spoken by some of the Arabic media across North Africa and the Middle East, and understood by most educated Arabic speakers. "Literary Arabic" and "Standard Arabic" ( فُصْحَى fuṣḥá ) are less strictly defined terms that may refer to Modern Standard Arabic or Classical Arabic. Some of the differences between Classical Arabic (CA) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) are as follows: MSA uses much Classical vocabulary (e.g., dhahaba 'to go') that
4176-413: Is to avoid direct borrowings, preferring to either use loan translations (e.g., فرع farʻ 'branch', also used for the branch of a company or organization; جناح janāḥ 'wing', is also used for the wing of an airplane, building, air force, etc.), or to coin new words using forms within existing roots ( استماتة istimātah ' apoptosis ', using the root موت m/w/t 'death' put into
4292-516: Is used to denote concepts that have arisen in the industrial and post-industrial era , especially in modern times. Due to its grounding in Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic is removed over a millennium from everyday speech, which is construed as a multitude of dialects of this language. These dialects and Modern Standard Arabic are described by some scholars as not mutually comprehensible. The former are usually acquired in families, while
4408-566: Is working on his debut album entitled RedOne Presents . He declared that he would like to collaborate with Lady Gaga, Enrique Iglesias, Stevie Wonder , and Lionel Richie for the album. Also in 2015, he started working in country music by co-writing and co-producing The Band Perry 's song " Live Forever ", the first single off their upcoming third studio album. RedOne signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records in January 2016. His first single with Warner Bros., " Don't You Need Somebody "
4524-508: The Billboard Hot 100 top-20 hits " Starships " and " Pound the Alarm ". In the beginning of 2014, RedOne decided to change his record label 2101 Records into RedOne Records. Main acts signed to the label are Midnight Red , Porcelain Black , Ahmed Chawki , Sophia Del Carmen, Kika and Wayne Beckford. RedOne Records also promotes SuperMartXé events productions. In 2015, RedOne announced that he
4640-445: The Lisān al-ʻArab ). Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) largely follows the grammatical standards of Classical Arabic and uses much of the same vocabulary. However, it has discarded some grammatical constructions and vocabulary that no longer have any counterpart in the spoken varieties and has adopted certain new constructions and vocabulary from the spoken varieties. Much of the new vocabulary
4756-525: The 2006 FIFA World Cup . "Bamboo" was featured for the branding and promotion of the event during television broadcasts and advertising campaigns, branded cross-promotions, and as a part of the World Cup Official Music Program, gaining him much audio exposure. In addition, The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) made him the main producer and songwriter for the 2006 World Cup Official Music Program. RedOne also produced
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4872-561: The Xth form , or جامعة jāmiʻah 'university', based on جمع jamaʻa 'to gather, unite'; جمهورية jumhūriyyah 'republic', based on جمهور jumhūr 'multitude'). An earlier tendency was to redefine an older word although this has fallen into disuse (e.g., هاتف hātif 'telephone' < 'invisible caller (in Sufism)'; جريدة jarīdah 'newspaper' < 'palm-leaf stalk'). Colloquial or dialectal Arabic refers to
4988-494: The northern Hejaz . These features are evidence of common descent from a hypothetical ancestor , Proto-Arabic . The following features of Proto-Arabic can be reconstructed with confidence: On the other hand, several Arabic varieties are closer to other Semitic languages and maintain features not found in Classical Arabic, indicating that these varieties cannot have developed from Classical Arabic. Thus, Arabic vernaculars do not descend from Classical Arabic: Classical Arabic
5104-419: The "learned" tradition (Classical Arabic). This variety and both its classicizing and "lay" iterations have been termed Middle Arabic in the past, but they are thought to continue an Old Higazi register. It is clear that the orthography of the Quran was not developed for the standardized form of Classical Arabic; rather, it shows the attempt on the part of writers to record an archaic form of Old Higazi. In
5220-834: The "purest," most eloquent form of Arabic—initiating a process of jamʿu‿l-luɣah ( جمع اللغة 'compiling the language') which took place over the 8th and early 9th centuries. Kitāb al-'Ayn ( c. 8th century ), attributed to Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi , is considered the first lexicon to include all Arabic roots ; it sought to exhaust all possible root permutations —later called taqālīb ( تقاليب ) — calling those that are actually used mustaʿmal ( مستعمَل ) and those that are not used muhmal ( مُهمَل ). Lisān al-ʿArab (1290) by Ibn Manzur gives 9,273 roots, while Tāj al-ʿArūs (1774) by Murtada az-Zabidi gives 11,978 roots. Darin Zanyar Darin Zanyar (born 2 June 1987), prefessionally known as Darin ,
5336-454: The 11th and 12th centuries in al-Andalus , the zajal and muwashah poetry forms developed in the dialectical Arabic of Cordoba and the Maghreb. The Nahda was a cultural and especially literary renaissance of the 19th century in which writers sought "to fuse Arabic and European forms of expression." According to James L. Gelvin , " Nahda writers attempted to simplify the Arabic language and script so that it might be accessible to
5452-562: The 4th to the 6th centuries, the Nabataean script evolved into the Arabic script recognizable from the early Islamic era. There are inscriptions in an undotted, 17-letter Arabic script dating to the 6th century CE, found at four locations in Syria ( Zabad , Jebel Usays , Harran , Umm el-Jimal ). The oldest surviving papyrus in Arabic dates to 643 CE, and it uses dots to produce the modern 28-letter Arabic alphabet. The language of that papyrus and of
5568-812: The 8th century, knowledge of Classical Arabic had become an essential prerequisite for rising into the higher classes throughout the Islamic world, both for Muslims and non-Muslims. For example, Maimonides , the Andalusi Jewish philosopher, authored works in Judeo-Arabic —Arabic written in Hebrew script . Ibn Jinni of Mosul , a pioneer in phonology , wrote prolifically in the 10th century on Arabic morphology and phonology in works such as Kitāb Al-Munṣif , Kitāb Al-Muḥtasab , and Kitāb Al-Khaṣāʾiṣ [ ar ] . Ibn Mada' of Cordoba (1116–1196) realized
5684-585: The Block , One Direction , Sugababes , Now United , Talkback, Ying Yang Twins , amongst others. In 2011, RedOne created 2101 Foundation , a non-profit organization committed to helping disadvantaged youth and to inspire and motivate young people to pursue their passion in life through music, arts and education. He is also involved with A Place Called Home, a safe haven in South Central Los Angeles where underserved youth are empowered to take ownership of
5800-412: The Middle East and North Africa have become a badge of sophistication and modernity and ... feigning, or asserting, weakness or lack of facility in Arabic is sometimes paraded as a sign of status, class, and perversely, even education through a mélange of code-switching practises." Arabic has been taught worldwide in many elementary and secondary schools, especially Muslim schools. Universities around
5916-672: The Qur'an is referred to by linguists as "Quranic Arabic", as distinct from its codification soon thereafter into " Classical Arabic ". In late pre-Islamic times, a transdialectal and transcommunal variety of Arabic emerged in the Hejaz , which continued living its parallel life after literary Arabic had been institutionally standardized in the 2nd and 3rd century of the Hijra , most strongly in Judeo-Christian texts, keeping alive ancient features eliminated from
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#17331158522136032-561: The Romance languages. Also, while it is comprehensible to people from the Maghreb , a linguistically innovative variety such as Moroccan Arabic is essentially incomprehensible to Arabs from the Mashriq , much as French is incomprehensible to Spanish or Italian speakers but relatively easily learned by them. This suggests that the spoken varieties may linguistically be considered separate languages. With
6148-456: The Spanish TV channel Telecinco's documentary about media personality Rocío Carrasco. During the spring, Darin released the song "Can’t Stay Away," which he co-wrote with British songwriter and producer Jamie Hartman. In another interview with Aftonbladet, he mentioned that he intended the song to "breathe gay culture, colors, 70s, energy, and playfulness" and to be "queer and sexy" in a way that
6264-525: The TV program "Så mycket bättre" ("So Much Better"), he participated in the program again to celebrate his anniversary. In August, Darin and his song "Superstar" received the award for the year's most played song by an independent artist in Italy from Italy's largest radio station RTL. He was surprised with the award after performing the song at the epic Arena di Verona. The gala was also broadcast live on RTL's TV channel and
6380-706: The US working with worldwide known producers and songwriters such as Jim Beanz , The Jackie Boyz , Victoria "Lady V" Horn to make the album, Exit . In May 2013 a new single titled " So Yours " was released in Europe due to a performance as the interval act during the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö . In mid 2013, Darin travelled to the Philippines to film the documentary En resa för livet together with
6496-480: The Vatican before the performance. Darin performed a medley consisting of the songs "Satisfaction", "Can’t Stay Away", and "Superstar". On December 7, he also released an EP "My Purple Clouds", which includes the three singles. At the end of the year, Darin announced the dates for his next tour, an arena tour in Sweden in 2023 with 11 stops around the country. On May 5, Darin released the new song "Starkare" ("Stronger"),
6612-559: The Year at the 2011 Grammis Award , a Swedish music award instituted as a regional equivalent to the Grammy Awards. In 2009, he was the number one producer on the Billboard Hot 100 , ranking number three as a songwriter and winning BMI 's Songwriter of the Year. Outside of music, he has held the position of Creative Entertainment Executive at FIFA since 2021. RedOne was born as Nadir Khayat in Tétouan , Morocco. In an interview, he said he
6728-528: The album, subsequently releasing the platinum selling " Step Up ", which spent a total of 26 weeks on Sverigetopplistan and was also the first single to be released in Finland. Furthermore, the album included the singles "Who's That Girl" and " Want Ya! ". In 2006, Darin won Song of the Year at the Swedish Grammis for " Money for Nothing ". Later in 2006, he released his first DVD, Tour Videos Interview , which
6844-401: The charity SOS Children's Villages and three musical artists, Eagle-Eye Cherry , Sophie Zelmani and Uno Svenningsson to bring attention to the poverty in the country and also try to gain and collect as many sponsors as possible for the children in the children's villages. Darin and Eagle-Eye Cherry also wrote and sang the lead song "Dream Away" for the documentary that was aired on TV4 . All
6960-457: The concert in Stockholm. On January 7, 2021, Darin's concert from Ericsson Globe, "Darin – Live from Globen," premiered on SVT1 and was also made available on SVT Play the same day. Miss Li, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Daniela Rathana, and Maja Ivarsson were among the artists who appeared as guests during the concert. In February, Darin was named Sweden's LGBTQ person of the year by QX . Darin graced half of
7076-567: The conversion of Semitic mimation to nunation in the singular. It is best reassessed as a separate language on the Central Semitic dialect continuum. It was also thought that Old Arabic coexisted alongside—and then gradually displaced— epigraphic Ancient North Arabian (ANA), which was theorized to have been the regional tongue for many centuries. ANA, despite its name, was considered a very distinct language, and mutually unintelligible, from "Arabic". Scholars named its variant dialects after
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#17331158522137192-676: The country's finest theaters. The tour concluded with a concert at The Bedford in London. On 22 October 2021, he released the song "Holding Me More." He described it as a personal favorite. That same week, the BBC program Music Life aired, a radio program and podcast where a well-known musician interviews other musicians. In this program, Darin interviewed artists and songwriters Zara Larsson, Nina Nesbitt, Bryan Higgins, and Jörgen Elofsson. On November 26, 2021, Darin released his first Christmas song, "What's Christmas Anyway," which he co-wrote with Jörgen Elofsson, who
7308-467: The covers of the magazine during the month, with Crown Princess Victoria featured on the other half, winning the award for heterosexual person of the year. "En säng av rosor" was also voted as the song of the year. The song became Darin's 30th song in Sweden to achieve gold or platinum status. Additionally, the song reached the top position on the Spanish iTunes chart after being featured in an emotional scene in
7424-577: The emergence of Central Semitic languages, particularly in grammar. Innovations of the Central Semitic languages—all maintained in Arabic—include: There are several features which Classical Arabic, the modern Arabic varieties, as well as the Safaitic and Hismaic inscriptions share which are unattested in any other Central Semitic language variety, including the Dadanitic and Taymanitic languages of
7540-728: The eve of the conquests: Northern and Central (Al-Jallad 2009). The modern dialects emerged from a new contact situation produced following the conquests. Instead of the emergence of a single or multiple koines, the dialects contain several sedimentary layers of borrowed and areal features, which they absorbed at different points in their linguistic histories. According to Veersteegh and Bickerton, colloquial Arabic dialects arose from pidginized Arabic formed from contact between Arabs and conquered peoples. Pidginization and subsequent creolization among Arabs and arabized peoples could explain relative morphological and phonological simplicity of vernacular Arabic compared to Classical and MSA. In around
7656-593: The fact that they participate in the innovations common to all forms of Arabic. The earliest attestation of continuous Arabic text in an ancestor of the modern Arabic script are three lines of poetry by a man named Garm(')allāhe found in En Avdat, Israel , and dated to around 125 CE. This is followed by the Namara inscription , an epitaph of the Lakhmid king Imru' al-Qays bar 'Amro, dating to 328 CE, found at Namaraa, Syria. From
7772-589: The fall of 2023, Darin embarked on a major arena tour in Sweden (Darin Arena Tour 2023), where he performed in arenas around Sweden. On 15 September 2023, Darin released his ninth studio album, En annan jag . The album charted at number 1 on the Sverigetopplistan . En annan jag was nominated at the Swedish Grammy Awards, which was held in Stockholm on 8 May 2024. On 22 March 2024, Darin released
7888-477: The favorite contestants in the show and was the only one to receive 78% of the public votes at the semi-final. He ended up as the runner-up and was signed by SonyBMG the day after the finale. In February 2005 his debut album The Anthem was released. The album quickly entered the Swedish Album Charts at number 1 and was certified gold by the IFPI . His first single " Money for Nothing " was written by Robyn and went straight to No. 1. In 2005, he went on to become
8004-420: The festival with the mid-tempo ballad " You're Out of My Life ", which was written by Tony Nilsson and Henrik Janson . Darin performed 7th in Heat 3 of the contest and progressed to the final ultimately placing 4th. In June 2010, Darin began a 17 date Summer Tour in Sweden. In August 2010, Darin would soon release the single " Lovekiller ". The album of the same name was released in August 2010 and included
8120-450: The first episode of the third season of Så mycket bättre featuring Darin, a reality TV show in which each artist attempts to do their own version of another artists well-known songs, with each person getting an episode featuring a selection of their songs being performed by the other musicians. Darin performed six songs in the show: "Stockholm", "En Apa Som Liknar Dig", "I Can't Get You Off My Mind", "Astrologen", "Magdalena" and "Seven Days
8236-405: The first single from his upcoming Swedish album "En annan jag" ("Another Me"), planned for release in September. He describes the song as a comfort when going through something difficult in life. "It helped me when I wrote it, and I hope it can also help others out there." In August, the song became the most played on Swedish radio and had also achieved gold status in streaming. In October, it reached
8352-501: The fourth most useful language for business, after English, Mandarin Chinese , and French. Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet , an abjad script that is written from right to left . Arabic is usually classified as a Central Semitic language . Linguists still differ as to the best classification of Semitic language sub-groups. The Semitic languages changed between Proto-Semitic and
8468-591: The impact he thought it would, saying: "It was a good thing for me as a personal achievement but in terms of business or attracting labels to get more work, it didn't have a big impact, especially not in the US. It opened a few doors that closed quickly after." It was then that he decided to move to the United States with the aim of breaking his career there. In 2007, RedOne decided to move to Jersey City, New Jersey with his wife for better career opportunities, believing this to be his "now or never opportunity". Initially
8584-579: The inclusion of new words into their published standard dictionaries. They also publish old and historical Arabic manuscripts. In 1997, a bureau of Arabization standardization was added to the Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization of the Arab League . These academies and organizations have worked toward the Arabization of the sciences, creating terms in Arabic to describe new concepts, toward
8700-608: The language. Software and books with tapes are an important part of Arabic learning, as many of Arabic learners may live in places where there are no academic or Arabic language school classes available. Radio series of Arabic language classes are also provided from some radio stations. A number of websites on the Internet provide online classes for all levels as a means of distance education; most teach Modern Standard Arabic, but some teach regional varieties from numerous countries. The tradition of Arabic lexicography extended for about
8816-599: The late 6th century AD, a relatively uniform intertribal "poetic koine" distinct from the spoken vernaculars developed based on the Bedouin dialects of Najd , probably in connection with the court of al-Ḥīra . During the first Islamic century, the majority of Arabic poets and Arabic-writing persons spoke Arabic as their mother tongue. Their texts, although mainly preserved in far later manuscripts, contain traces of non-standardized Classical Arabic elements in morphology and syntax. Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali ( c. 603 –689)
8932-471: The latter in support of the Sweden national team , all in 2006. In 2005, he also worked with pop singer Britney Spears and songwriter Michelle Bell on a track titled "Money Love and Happiness" for her scrapped studio album "Original Doll", but the track remained unreleased until 2012, when Bell leaked the track in full online. In 2006, RedOne produced the single "Bamboo" that was named an "Official Melody" for
9048-420: The latter is taught in formal education settings. However, there have been studies reporting some degree of comprehension of stories told in the standard variety among preschool-aged children. The relation between Modern Standard Arabic and these dialects is sometimes compared to that of Classical Latin and Vulgar Latin vernaculars (which became Romance languages ) in medieval and early modern Europe. MSA
9164-883: The many national or regional varieties which constitute the everyday spoken language. Colloquial Arabic has many regional variants; geographically distant varieties usually differ enough to be mutually unintelligible , and some linguists consider them distinct languages. However, research indicates a high degree of mutual intelligibility between closely related Arabic variants for native speakers listening to words, sentences, and texts; and between more distantly related dialects in interactional situations. The varieties are typically unwritten. They are often used in informal spoken media, such as soap operas and talk shows , as well as occasionally in certain forms of written media such as poetry and printed advertising. Hassaniya Arabic , Maltese , and Cypriot Arabic are only varieties of modern Arabic to have acquired official recognition. Hassaniya
9280-453: The most exposed person in the media in Sweden. They often wrote about his hysterical fans and referred to him as "The perfect popstar". Later the same year Darin released his second self-titled album, which also peaked at number one. It was his first to be released outside of Sweden, being released in Finland , and was certified platinum. Darin worked with record producer RedOne while creating
9396-638: The most played Swedish song on radio in Sweden that year. During the spring of 2018, Darin embarked on a concert hall tour with 25 stops, including three sold-out nights at Cirkus in Stockholm. On October 26, 2018, Darin released the new single "Identitetslös" ("Identityless") as well as concert tickets for his first arena tour in Sweden. The arena tour consisted of three concerts in the spring of 2019 – Globen in Stockholm on May 4, Scandinavium in Gothenburg on May 11, and Malmö Arena on May 18. In November 2018, Darin achieved his second one-year run on Svensktoppen with
9512-506: The move proved unsuccessful; he struggled to secure even a single production and lost all of his money in the process. Penniless and sleeping on an air mattress with his wife, he was ready to move back to Sweden. He says in an interview with Global Post : "I was really depressed, I told my wife, 'We gotta go back'. She said we should borrow money and try for a few more months and then really give up if nothing good happens". His American breakthrough came when he met with Epic Records to present
9628-768: The need for a lexical injection in Arabic, to suit concepts of the industrial and post-industrial age (such as sayyārah سَيَّارَة 'automobile' or bākhirah باخِرة 'steamship'). In response, a number of Arabic academies modeled after the Académie française were established with the aim of developing standardized additions to the Arabic lexicon to suit these transformations, first in Damascus (1919), then in Cairo (1932), Baghdad (1948), Rabat (1960), Amman (1977), Khartum [ ar ] (1993), and Tunis (1993). They review language development, monitor new words and approve
9744-424: The one whose sound is heard but whose person remains unseen. Now the term al-hatif is used for a telephone. Therefore, the process of tawleed can express the needs of modern civilization in a manner that would appear to be originally Arabic. In the case of Arabic, educated Arabs of any nationality can be assumed to speak both their school-taught Standard Arabic as well as their native dialects, which depending on
9860-449: The other hand is a publishing company affiliated with 2101 Records and administered by Sony ATV Songs (BMI). Main acts signed to the label are Jennifer Lopez , Mohombi , Havana Brown , Midnight Red , Porcelain Black and 7Lions. RedOne continued to work with Gaga on her second studio album, Born This Way (2011). RedOne produced and co-wrote four songs for Nicki Minaj 's second album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012), including
9976-549: The overhaul of Arabic grammar first proposed by Al-Jahiz 200 years prior. The Maghrebi lexicographer Ibn Manzur compiled Lisān al-ʿArab ( لسان العرب , "Tongue of Arabs"), a major reference dictionary of Arabic, in 1290. Charles Ferguson 's koine theory claims that the modern Arabic dialects collectively descend from a single military koine that sprang up during the Islamic conquests; this view has been challenged in recent times. Ahmad al-Jallad proposes that there were at least two considerably distinct types of Arabic on
10092-502: The public had not seen him before. In the Autumn, Darin embarked on his first-ever acoustic tour. It consisted of five evenings at Palladium in Malmö, five evenings at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg, and nine sold-out evenings at Södra Teatern in Stockholm. He stated that his intention with the tour was to get close to the audience and share his thoughts behind the music and lyrics, doing so in some of
10208-658: The quality and direction of their lives through programs in education, arts, and well-being and are inspired to make a meaningful difference in their community and the world. After the Grammy Awards, RedOne was awarded the Moroccan Royal Award for "Intellectual Excellence" and was decorated officially by King Mohamed VI of Morocco in an official ceremony held in Tangier in 2011. In 2010 the Swedish Music Publishers Association awarded RedOne composer of
10324-410: The region may be mutually unintelligible. Some of these dialects can be considered to constitute separate languages which may have "sub-dialects" of their own. When educated Arabs of different dialects engage in conversation (for example, a Moroccan speaking with a Lebanese), many speakers code-switch back and forth between the dialectal and standard varieties of the language, sometimes even within
10440-519: The revenues went to SOS Children's Villages. In 2014, Darin started writing new songs in Swedish for the first time. He got inspired by recording a tribute song to the late Ted Gärdestad in the Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, where ABBA also recorded many of their albums and he wanted to record the same way they did. In March 2015 Darin released his first single " Ta mig tillbaka " from his (then) upcoming Swedish album Fjärilar i magen . It
10556-401: The same month, he also announced the dates for his summer tour, where he would, among other places, perform at Skansen in Stockholm and Dalhalla outside Rättvik. The majority of the tour was subsequently canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the end of December, Darin released a complete live album titled "Live from Ericsson Globe" from last year's arena tour, featuring 24 of the songs from
10672-458: The same sentence. The issue of whether Arabic is one language or many languages is politically charged, in the same way it is for the varieties of Chinese , Hindi and Urdu , Serbian and Croatian , Scots and English, etc. In contrast to speakers of Hindi and Urdu who claim they cannot understand each other even when they can, speakers of the varieties of Arabic will claim they can all understand each other even when they cannot. While there
10788-459: The second position on the Swedish radio chart. On May 24, Darin paid tribute to songwriter Diane Warren at the Polar Music Prize with a performance of her song "Because You Loved Me". His interpretation of the song was praised by both the audience and Diane Warren herself, who, according to him, had been a great musical inspiration for him during his upbringing. Ten years after his success in
10904-476: The single "Electric"; the single was subsequently added to BBC Radio 2's New Music Playlist, on the B List. In an interview with Spindle magazine, Darin shared, "I met with [Harris and Hurr] and another writer, Jordan Shaw, in London, and this was the first song that we wrote together. I had the story, and we created the song from that, all in one day. The song is about a night out in Palma, Mallorca, where I live. It
11020-419: The single "Superstar", a modern disco-inspired song produced by producer Stuart Price, known for his work on Madonna's album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" and Dua Lipa's album "Future Nostalgia". The song became Darin's second major hit in Italy and also reached the top position on both the dance chart and the independent chart. It became one of the most played songs on radio in Italy during 2022 and also reached
11136-460: The singles Viva la Vida , You're Out of My Life , "Can't Stop Love", " Microphone " and " Lovekiller ". The album was certified gold in the first week of its release and peaked at number one on the Swedish album chart . In February 2012 Darin released the single " Nobody Knows ", which was the first single from his (then) upcoming album Exit . In October 2012 Swedish television network TV4 aired
11252-458: The sole example of Medieval linguist Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati – who, while a scholar of the Arabic language, was not ethnically Arab – Medieval scholars of the Arabic language made no efforts at studying comparative linguistics, considering all other languages inferior. In modern times, the educated upper classes in the Arab world have taken a nearly opposite view. Yasir Suleiman wrote in 2011 that "studying and knowing English or French in most of
11368-412: The song "Tvillingen". In February 2020, Darin released the single "En säng av rosor" ("A Bed of Roses"). He describes the song as the most stripped-down single he has released so far, featuring only vocals, a guitar, and a cello. Since then, the song has reached the top position on Svensktoppen, been streamed over 45 million times, and became the fifth most played song in Sweden during the year. During
11484-556: The standardization of these new terms throughout the Arabic-speaking world, and toward the development of Arabic as a world language . This gave rise to what Western scholars call Modern Standard Arabic. From the 1950s, Arabization became a postcolonial nationalist policy in countries such as Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Sudan. Arabic usually refers to Standard Arabic, which Western linguists divide into Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. It could also refer to any of
11600-419: The top five singles " Just Dance ", " Poker Face ", " LoveGame ", and " Bad Romance ". RedOne penned many of the songs sung by Alexey Vorobyov (also known as Alex Sparrow), who represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest of 2011 and eventually recruited the singer to his record label. In 2010, RedOne founded 2101 Records , a record label, as a joint venture with Universal Music Group . 2101 Songs on
11716-585: The top position on Svensktoppen, the Swedish radio chart. On June 13, SVT announced that Darin was the artist chosen to perform "Allsångsscenen är din" ("The Sing-along Stage is Yours"), which meant that he would have a full hour concert after the program Allsång på Skansen on August 8 at the Sollidenscenen stage in Skansen. The program and concert were broadcast live on SVT. During the summer of 2023, Darin also released his 50th single, "Satellit" ("Satellite"). In
11832-501: The towns where the inscriptions were discovered (Dadanitic, Taymanitic, Hismaic, Safaitic). However, most arguments for a single ANA language or language family were based on the shape of the definite article, a prefixed h-. It has been argued that the h- is an archaism and not a shared innovation, and thus unsuitable for language classification, rendering the hypothesis of an ANA language family untenable. Safaitic and Hismaic, previously considered ANA, should be considered Old Arabic due to
11948-451: The world have classes that teach Arabic as part of their foreign languages , Middle Eastern studies , and religious studies courses. Arabic language schools exist to assist students to learn Arabic outside the academic world. There are many Arabic language schools in the Arab world and other Muslim countries. Because the Quran is written in Arabic and all Islamic terms are in Arabic, millions of Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) study
12064-486: The year, song of the year (for Bad Romance ), and most played song of the year (also for Bad Romance ). Khayat is married to Laila Aziz , currently a creative designer at Kayat , a brand jointly owned by both. Arabic language Arabic (endonym: اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ , romanized : al-ʿarabiyyah , pronounced [al ʕaraˈbijːa] , or عَرَبِيّ , ʿarabīy , pronounced [ˈʕarabiː] or [ʕaraˈbij] )
12180-543: Was Rami Yacoub , another fellow ex-rock musician. Yacoub, a Palestinian-Swedish songwriter/producer already enjoyed considerable success and was a well-established producer. Inviting RedOne to work with him in the studio, he taught RedOne about "programming and how the software works" and the pair co-wrote a number of songs together. During this period of cooperation, RedOne worked with the successful Swedish girl band Popsie writing their songs "Funky" and "Joyful Life" co-written and co-produced by Yacoub and RedOne (and where RedOne
12296-459: Was also involved in writing Darin's hit song "Why Does It Rain." At the beginning of the year, Darin was launched in Italy for the first time with the single "Can’t Stay Away". It quickly became one of the most played songs on radio in the country and reached the top position on both the independent chart and the dance chart within just a few weeks. This was followed by appearances on several of Italy's biggest TV shows. On May 13, Darin released
12412-676: Was appointed Creative Entertainment Executive of FIFA, producing the official soundtrack for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He also went on to produce the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup official song entitled "Welcome to Morocco", that took place in Morocco . He wrote and produced the official anthem for the COP28 Summit that took place in Dubai in December 2023. RedOne continued writing and producing with Gaga and
12528-470: Was attended by several of Italy's biggest artists. On November 4, Darin released the single "Satisfaction", which became Darin's third top 10 song on the radio chart in Italy in the same year. The success in Italy resulted in Darin receiving a request from the Vatican to perform at their annual televised concert Conerto di Natale in December. In connection with this, he also had the opportunity to meet Pope Francis in
12644-655: Was credited on Popsie's 1998 self-titled album as songwriter and producer Nadir K). He chose the alias 'RedOne', a pseudonym of the name of a friend of his, Redouan. Redouan introduced Rami to Max Martin, Yacoub was asked some time later to join Cheiron Studios and the two parted company with Yacoub working extensively with huge names like Backstreet Boys , Britney Spears , Westlife and Céline Dion , amongst others. RedOne then moved on to produce various Swedish and European pop acts. In 2001–2002, he co-produced A*Teens , originally an ABBA teen tribute band that already had
12760-660: Was mainly a concert DVD from a 2006 tour. In November 2006, Darin released his third album studio album, Break the News , which debuted at number 1 on the Swedish Charts. The album included the singles "Perfect", "Everything But the Girl", "Desire" and "Insanity". In 2007, Darin signed a contract with EMI Germany to release music in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and in August 2007, " Insanity "
12876-496: Was one of those spontaneous nights with my closest friends, actually celebrating my birthday. And when I thought things couldn’t get better, I met someone special. We were like two magnets drawn to each other that night [...] I want to spread good vibes and positive feelings and hopefully make people want to dance to it." The single became Darin's first ever single to chart in the United Kingdom; it debuted and peaked at number 56 on
12992-429: Was released on 20 May 2016 and features Enrique Iglesias , R. City , Serayah , and Shaggy . On his transition from producer to being an artist RedOne has said: "I thought that to be a performer, you had to stick to a single sound, and I loved too many kinds of music to do that. But now I find myself wanting to get back to singing and playing, and friends like Enrique have encouraged me to do so. I want to be an artist in
13108-441: Was released. In 2008, Darin started to work on his fourth studio album, Flashback , together with RedOne . The album was released in December 2008 and charted at number 10 in Sweden, making it Darin's first album not to reach number one in the country. The album included the singles " Breathing Your Love ", a duet with American singer Kat DeLuna , "Runaway" and "What If", a song which was released in collaboration with Friends ,
13224-588: Was signed by Sony Music for all the Asian countries, including the Middle East for his previous English album Exit . In March 2017, Darin released a new song, "Ja må du leva" ("May you live"). "We live in a world that demands a lot from us. There are many ideals that we are supposed to follow and strive for, which aren't really important enough to take such a big focus in our daily lives. I think there are much more important things to focus on, such as having fun and doing things that inspire and make you happy. The lyrics are
13340-526: Was the first time he recorded a song with only acoustic instruments, which gave the production a different sound to what he had before. The lyrics was an autobiographical story about his childhood and growing up in the 1990s. The single went 4× platinum and was the most streamed song in Swedish that year. The album Fjärilar i magen was released in September 2015 by Darin's own record company Dex Music and became his sixth number one album in Sweden. In 2015, Darin
13456-484: Was the ninth and youngest child in his family. In 1991, he immigrated to Sweden when he was 19, to pursue a career as a musician. In an interview with HitQuarters website, he said his moving to Sweden was because, "there was so much good music coming from there" mentioning ABBA , Europe , and Roxette as among the most influential to him. In 1995, he changed directions by opting to produce and write songs for other artists. Instrumental in helping him make this transition
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