The Swedish rapper Cleoor Miriam Nathalie Missaoui as she is actually called, is known for songs such as Torneträsket and 7lr8. Last year Cleo was in Jill’s Veranda, and in the future there will be more TV as she is in Drömkåkar abroad.
For the album Missaoui, which was released in 2022, Cleo was awarded a Grammy last year. Over the years, Cleo has been written about both for her music, but also for her involvement in the non-profit association Fatta! who engages against sexual violence, and helped push forward the consent law that was introduced in 2018.
Cleo was engaged to Fricky
Cleo’s private life has also attracted interest. Cleo was previously engaged to the artist Erik “Fricky” Friman, as she had her daughter in 2019 Fire with.
But in February 2022, it became clear that Cleo and Fricky had chosen to go their separate ways.
In his summer talk Summer in P1 so Cleo told about how Fricky became known to all of Sweden overnight – while she was expecting their daughter. In the middle of it all, Cleo suffered from pregnancy depression.
– He was right at the start of his dreams. It wasn’t easy for any of us, and we did our best. I wanted to support him, push him and help in any way I could, but it probably hurt me more than I knew at the time. He tried to get me to rest from everything, but it was difficult to say anything to me during that time, difficult to influence the mountain when it decided to stand, says Cleo in her Summer Talk.
Fricky and Cleo. Image source: Claudio Bresciani/TT BildCleo has son Elliot – the words about his father
Cleo has a son from a previous relationship Elliot, who was born in 2009. Over the years, Cleo has been secretive about Elliot’s father’s identity, but in her summer talk, she opens up about the relationship with the father.
– Twice the dream of a family has come crashing down for me. I have two children Elliot and Elda, with two different fathers. How is it possible, so beautiful and ingeniously conceived everything is in nature, why is it not love? Why can two people who don’t really fit together fall so terribly in love? What’s the point of that? But despite the separations, we have found a way to live as a big, quirky bonus family, says Cleo.
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Cleo. Image source: Jessica Gow/TT Bild
She explains what a typical holiday can look like at Cleo’s house.
– We are at my house, with Elliot’s father and his new woman, her family, their new child, says Cleo and continues to tell how her mother is also there, the children, Cleo’s sister, and Elda’s father Fricky and his grandfather.
– It’s really fantastic that we got it to work. It’s not just for the kids, it doesn’t feel that way. That’s the family, that’s how it came to be, says Cleo.