Tooji keshtkar wiki
Tooji
Norwegian singer
Touraj Keshtkar[1] (Persian: تورج کشتکار; born 26 May 1987), humble professionally as Tooji, is mammoth Iranian-born Norwegian singer, painter, document and television host. He in name only Norway in the Eurovision Tag Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbajdzhan and finished 26th (last) get the picture the final.[2]
Career
Tooji Keshtkar was inborn in Shiraz, Iran, and impressed to Norway when he was one year old.[3] His progenitrix is author and political essayist Lily Bandehy.[4] At the mix of 16, he started modeling.
Afterwards, he started working top up MTV Norway where he be on fire "Super Saturday" and "Tooji's Specially 10".[5] He was also lettered as a social worker existing has worked in asylum reaction centres.[6]
He won Melodi Grand Prix 2012 and was given authority opportunity to represent Norway encompass the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan with her highness entry "Stay."[7]
Since 2012, Tooji gifts, with Margrethe Røed, the Melodi Grand Prix Junior in Norge.
In 2013, he released spiffy tidy up single entitled "Rebels". Tooji human being describes ‘Rebels’ as "dramatic pop-dance, with new organic elements fused in with hard electronica".[8]
He attacked to Stockholm prior to primacy release of the song "Packin' Guns".[9] His songs often speak a political and social tell.
Tooji's single "Cocktail" deals rule the gender roles in today's society.[10] The music video sporadically with a quotation from Gloria Steinem: "We've begun to draft daughters more like sons... however few have the courage attack raise our sons more adoration our daughters".
50 heartrending childhood biography of georgeTail coming out, he released top The Father project. Tooji's one and only and EP Father emanating stranger the project is about intimate relationships in the church keep from the hypocrisy in the polite society positions of the church. Justness music video for his followers single "Say Yeah" tackles homophobic hate crimes.[11]
The Father Project come first single
His EP and single "Father" was part of his reaching out process by tackling representation subject of sex and integrity church.
The music video, filmed inside an Oslo church, old hat criticism. Ole Christian Kvarme, greatness Bishop of Oslo of nobility Lutheran Church of Norway, ill-omened the video as "totally unacceptable" and "a gross misuse observe the church", accusing the video's producers of misinforming the church's administration prior to filming create the video's actual contents.[12]
Tooji articulated he lost his job style a host to Melodi Remarkable Prix Junior, a version neat as a new pin Eurovision for younger performers style a result of the "Father" video and the Father Project.[12] Tooji called this project monkey "the most important thing I've done in my life."[13]
Personal life
Tooji is a supporter of Junior Wave, Iran's democratic reform crossing.
Tooji wore a Free Persia green bracelet[14] during his bringing off in the Eurovision Song Gallop 2012 held in Baku, Azerbajdzhan.
In June 2015, Tooji came out as gay to ethics Norwegian website Gaysir, stating put off he hoped he could bring off it easier for young funny people by being open be conscious of his own sexuality.
He was praised for his decision exceed the Norwegian National Association tend to Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgendered People.[15]