Lived in Sweden until age 7. Speaks Swedish, Farci, French, Italian, and Russian. Won first place in the Metro Lyric Opera Competition in New York City in May 1999. Competed in the Miss Florida Teen USA Pageant in 1998, finishing as the second runner-up. Plays the flute, harp, guitar, and piano. Nadia is Swedish on her father's side and Persian on her mother's side. Nadia's father, Ulf, was a world-renowned composer and conductor. Her mother, Fary, is an interior decorator and painter. She was named one of Sweden's sexiest women in 2002 by the Swedish magazine Slitz Sister of Ulf Björlin Jr. Daughter of Ulf Björlin She is the second daughter of conductor and composer Ulf Bjorlin Sr., and his Persian wife Fary. She has an older brother Ulf Alexander Jr., born in 1979 and a younger brother Jean-Paul, born in 1982. She also has three half-siblings from her mother's first marriage, her sister Katja, born in 1965, her brother Kaj, born in 1969, and her sister Kamilla born in 1970. She also has half-siblings through her father's first marriage. Half-sister of Kamilla Bjorlin
