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, their artist-manager relationship ended in December 2016. Arash is also known for co-writing the lyrics to Cazzette's song, “Beam Me Up”. He owns the music label PRMD and the booking agency At Night Management. He appeared in the documentary film Avicii: True Stories. In 2014, Pournouri was awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Person) at the Denniz Pop Awards founded by

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. He along with Spotify founder

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are the creators of the tech convention Symposium. Pournouri studied law in high school and has also owned and run several restaurant and bars in

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and arranged club nights in

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. On 9 July 2015 he was the presenter for

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. He is one of the founders of Brilliant Minds. In 2018, he along with Brilliant Minds arranged a conference at

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in Stockholm where

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attended. In 2019, Arash became part owner of the video platform Triller.

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1981 births Living people Iranian composers Iranian emigrants to Sweden Iranian music people Iranian record producers Swedish music managers {{Sweden-bio-stub