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Mizgin

Swedish songwriter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ23771241
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Mizgin Demircan, also known as Mizgin, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. Her promotional single Get You Off, released in 2014, climbed to No. 4 on the MTV Top 100 chart and spent 12 straight weeks on the chart.

Life and career

Mizgin Demircan comes from a Kurdish family, but was born and raised in Bollnäs, a locality in Sweden. She started singing when she was 8 years old. A self-taught musician, Mizgin performed at school shows, small venues and local events in her small town.

She first appeared in the national media in 2008, when she auditioned for the Swedish TV show Körslaget, a competition in which seven celebrities return to their respective hometowns and each select 20 singers for their own choir to compete against the other six. Mizgin performed in the team of the singer Hanna Hedlund. After competing for three months, her choir won the competition.

In 2013, she traveled to America where she met Kama, a production duo that would become her producers in the United States together with co-writer Nav Ramasamy and talent manager Kelly Newton.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mizgin” as swedish songwriter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2008, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991. The account is most persuasive where Mizgin, Swedish and songwriter can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Mizgin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.