Zara Larsson won a Swedish reality talent show at 10 years old, in 2008, which is an unusually long runway before her actual pop career started — she didn't sign with TEN Music Group until 2012.
'Lush Life,' the song that made her an international name, wasn't released until 2015 and only really broke worldwide with 2017's So Good, six years after her talent-show win and three years into her actual record deal.
Sommer House, the label she founded in 2022 after buying back her own master recordings from TEN Music Group, has released everything since, including Venus in 2024 and Midnight Sun in 2025 — full creative control and a bigger cut of the revenue than her earlier deal ever gave her, a rare outcome for an artist who started as a child on a talent show.