Henna

"Henna" is a song by Swedish pop artist of Iranian origin Cameron Cartio featuring the raï Algerian singer Khaled. Music was composed by Alex Papaconstantinou to lyrics by Khaled (Arabic) and Cameron Cartio in Persian language. The song was produced by Alex Papaconstantinou and mastered at Cutting Room in Stockholm. The song was from the debut album of Cameron Cartio entitled Borderless. The Khaled involvement came after Cameron had broken up with his girlfriend who was a huge Khaled fan. So Cartio, then an aspiring and relatively unknown artist wrote the lyrics in his own conlang and sent them to Khaled, who agreed to add his own part as a tribute to Cartio's ex-girlfriend. The song was released on Sony/BMG and Universal and for the Arab World on EMI Arabia. In addition to popularity in Sweden and throughout the Iranian diaspora, the song became hugely popular in the Arab World basically because of the involvement of Khaled in the Arab diaspora. Track list Original 2005 release in Sweden Henna (3:12) Henna (extended version) (3:51) 2006 release in Sweden Henna (Spanish version) featuring Khaled (3:12) Henna (Dari version) featuring Khaled (3:12) Khaled appeared with courtesy of Universal where he was signed