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Samira Manners
12+ albums
melodifestivalenswedishswedish female vocalistsmelfestmelodifestivalen 2022
about
Samira Manners (born 9 July 2000), is a bilingual British-Swedish singer-songwriter. Samira has an English father and a Swedish mother. She learnt her first English in pre-school in Southern England and grew up speaking English at home in Sweden. She signed to Cardiac Records / Sony Music Sweden in 2020 and has since released 9 singles. She participated in Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2022 with the song "I Want to Be Loved". She performed in Heat 2 on 12 February 2022, finishing in fourth place in the phone vote, fifth place overall, and failing to qualify. She performed onstage with her band: Alice Castell (bass), Kajsa Westergren (drums), and Agnes Roslund (guitar). Since then her band has consisted of Leo Holmberg (guitar), Samuel Nilsson (guitar), Alice Castell (bass), Alice Lidberg (keyboard), and Kajsa Westergren/Ellen Mölck (drums). Samira studied at Lund's Dance and Musical Gymnasium (LDMG) 2016-2019, Malmö Academy of Music 2021-2022, and Folkhögskolan Skurup and Fridhem Malmö 2022-2023. Since 2024 she has been studying at the Academy of Contemporary Music in London. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
