Laleh Pourkarim is a Swedish singer-songwriter and former actress. Following a short acting career, she entered the music industry in 2005 with her self-titled debut album which peaked at number one in Sweden and went on to become the highest selling album of the year.
The name Laleh actually involves much more than a simple translation of the word "tulip." Used often in poetry, this tulip is used as a symbol often. Supposedly a tulip grew on the grave of the young martyrs.
A famous bearer was one of the conjoined Iranian twins Laleh and Laden Bijani 1974-2003 who sadly passed away during an operation to separate them. They were only 29.