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Salem Al Fakir
Salem Al Fakir (born 27 October 1981) is a multiple Swedish Grammy Award winning songwriter, producer, musician and singer from Sweden. He regularly collaborates with Vincent Pontare as songwriting, producer and artist duo Vargas & Lagola. Together they have written, co-written and produced songs for the likes of Avicii, Axwell Ʌ Ingrosso, Madonna, Seinabo Sey and more.
First release as Vargas & Lagola was "Rolling Stone" in January 2017. They were later featured artist on Avicii's "Friend Of Mine" from his 2017 EP "Avīci (01)", which they also co-wrote.
Al Fakir learned to play violin at the age of four and subsequently toured Russia as a solo violinist at the age of fourteen, but returned to Sweden to study jazz piano. As a student he attended the Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm.