Samir Badran

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Samir Badran
Samir Badran in 2024
Samir Badran in 2024
Background information
Born
Samir Gustav Andersson

(1990-05-25) 25 May 1990 (age 35)
Linköping, Sweden
GenresPop
Occupations
  • Singer
  • television personality
InstrumentVocals
Years active2014–2022, 2023–present
Labels
Member ofSamir & Viktor

Samir Gustav Badran (Arabic: سمير غوستاف بدران; born Andersson, 25 May 1990) is a Swedish television personality and singer.[1]

Career

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In 2013, Badran participated in the reality series Paradise Hotel broadcast on TV3.[2] He also took part in Paradise Hotel again in the 2014 season for one week. Along with the fashion blogger Viktor Frisk, Badran started the music duo Samir & Viktor. In May 2014, the duo released their first single, "Success".[3] The song peaked at number one on the Swedish iTunes chart during its first week.[4] Samir & Viktor participated in Melodifestivalen 2015 with the song "Groupie", in a bid to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria.[5] They went for it a second time in 2016 with the song "Bada nakna", reaching twelfth place in the competition but hitting the number one spot on the Swedish DigiListan sales chart in February 2016. Badran then competed in the celebrity dance show Let's Dance 2017, which was broadcast on TV4 and he finished in fifth place. He also participated in Farmen VIP 2018, which was broadcast on TV4.[6] He was furthermore the co-presenter of Talang from 2019 to 2021.[7] Samir did the "Vasaloppet" in 2025.

Personal life

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Badran grew up in Linköping with his mother Margareta and his father Ahmad.[8] Badran's father is of Palestinian origin and was born in the Gaza Strip; he has relatives in the area, whom he says to visit them when it is possible.[9][10] On 30 July 2014, a nine-year-old cousin of Badran was killed during the Israeli bombing of the UN school in the Jabalia refugee camp.[10]

Badran dated Mikaela Samuelsson in 2015.

In 2020, he confirmed that he was studying to become a real estate agent[11] and as of 2022, he was working as in this position at Mäklarhuset (sv) in Stockholm.[12]

Discography

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Singles

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Solo

Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
SWE
[13]
"Vet att du vill ha mig"
(feat. Kevin) 		2014 19
[14] 		Non-album singles
"Karma Is A Bitch"[15] 2017 —
"När jag ligger med nån annan"
(with Sigrid Bernson) 		2018 68
[16]
"Portkod"
(with Anis don Demina and Nobel) 		2019 —[A]

as Samir & Viktor

Notes

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  1. ^ "Portkod" did not enter the Swedish Singellista Chart, but peaked at number seven on the Swedish Heatseeker Chart.[17]

References

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  2. ^ Samir Badran - Paradise Hotel 2013 Archived 4 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 4 January 2015
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  6. ^ Här är alla deltagare i Farmen VIP i TV4 Archived 30 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine nyheter24.se Retrieved 6 January 2019
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