Lus h Life
SWEDISH SINGER
ZARA LARSSON
GIVES US INSIGHT
I N TO W H AT
I T ’ S L I K E TO BE A
Y O U N G A RT I S T O N T H E
V E R G E O F S U P E R S TA R D O M
By Susannah Kiernan
In town for only 10 hours, 18-year old singer-songwriter Zara Larsson
shows no signs of fatigue from the measly two hours of sleep she got
the night before. Flying into Toronto from Los Angeles where she’s
recording her album, and back out to her hometown in Sweden that
very night, she speaks enthusiastically about her not-so-sudden rise to
fame, what she’s excited about right now and, of course, Beyoncé. It
seems fitting that we meet at a restaurant named Wish, an adorable
café in Toronto, whose patio centerpiece is a wish fountain. “When my
song became number 1 in Scandinavia, and everything just exploded, I
was so lucky,” she says humbly, as though this was the result of wishing
upon a fountain. The reality is that her singing career did not happen
overnight, and that any success she has achieved has been through hard
work and determination.