Cro (Rapper)

Cro ( born January 31, 1990 in Aalen, civil Carlo Waibel ) is a German rapper, singer, record producer and designer who is on the label Chimperator Productions under contract. He describes his music as a mix of rap and pop music, which he abbreviates the term " raop ". His best-known "trademark" is a panda mask with which he concealed his face. According to the records awards he has sold in his career more than 1,725,000 records.

3.1 Vinyl Awards
3.2 Awards

Life

Cro began recording music at the age of about ten years. He learned the instruments piano and guitar. Between 2006 and 2008 Cro was active under the pseudonym Lyr1c on the Internet platform rhyme League Battle Arena. Was published in 2009 with the mixtape trash his first publication, as well as Lyr1c. He attended secondary school on the gallows in Aalen, the Stuttgart Johannes Gutenberg School. On 11 February 2011 the mixtape My music has been released. My music was offered for free download. In addition to the rapped verses and sung choruses the Cro was also responsible for the complete production of mixtapes. By mixtape in Reutlingen hip- hop musician Kaas became aware of Cro. In April 2011 the first video of the rapper appeared to the song rotation on. Decorated as an animated video was created by Cro itself. Cro is active in addition to his work as a musician and as a designer. He designed since 2010 under his own clothing label Vio Vio T -shirts that are sold through Blogspot. He also graduated from middle school after training as a media designer and worked for some time at a newspaper as a cartoonist.

Know through the contact Kaas learned Cro Sebastian Andrei Swiss, founder of the independent label Chimperator Productions, and Kodimey Awokou. End of September, the making-of was released to a video of a new artist's record company. In the following, various speculations have been made about it in forums, which rapper had been contracted. Swiss was in October 2011, the contract was signed to his label Cros known. From October 30 to November 7, 2011 Cro appeared on the Glow Tour 2011 opening act of the Norwegian band Madcon. Both in the context of concerts as well as photos and a tour blog to Cro presented with a panda mask. Psaiko.Dino, producer of Chimperator Productions, assumed the role of spokesman for Cro especially in the video blogs. On a correspondingly great interest was the interview book guys cults, which appeared on February 13, 2012 in Archive of Youth Cultures and for which Carlo Waibel some students of the Hochschule Esslingen gave an interview which was illustrated with a photo of him unmasked.

In November 2011, celebrated Cros Video Easy, which was created under the direction of Harris Hodovic, as a harbinger to his mixtape of the same name on the Internet TV channel Premiere tape.tv. Easy was a few days later also released on the video sharing website YouTube, where it was able to achieve 500,000 Views in about two weeks. By early 2012, the number rose to 1.7 million calls in mid-May, the number of 16 million has been exceeded. In addition, it has been reported about the video and Cro on the U.S. music blog hypetrak.com. Also on Easy French platforms has been published. The hip-hop and funk musician Jan Delay linked the video on his Facebook page and expressed in this frame his view that the rapper "the future of Deutschrap " was. In addition to his video appeared with Hi Kids and No Benz also two songs of his mixtapes in advance. On 1 December 2011 Cro was in the show NeoParadise the transmitter ZDFneo guest, where he presented excerpts from three songs from his mixtapes My Music and Easy. A day later appeared on the mixtape Easy Chimperator Productions, which is also offered free of charge on the website of the label. The e-zine Laut.de assessed the publication with four out of five rating points and stated that Cro " both in content and musically " convince. The German hip hop magazine Juice Easy explained in the January / February 2012 issue for " Mixtape of the Month".

Early 2012 caused him several major labels offers which he declined all. Later, however, Cro signed a publishing contract with the music publisher Universal Music Publishing. On 27 January, he launched under the title " Pandas gone wild " on a concert tour in which he was accompanied by Psaiko.Dino. The song Hi Kids reached in mid-February 2012, on the platform a million YouTube views. By mid-April, the number rose to three million. The song Easy was released a second time as a commercial single on 23 March 2012. Besides the standard version also appeared a " Limited Edition " on the additional songs Hi Kids, favorite song and confetti, a collaboration with Ahzumjot and Rockstah are included. Easy debuted at # 2 on the German single charts. From 19 April to 13 May 2012, Cro completed under the title "Hip Teens Wear Tight Jeans 2012 Tour" together with the rappers Ahzumjot and Rockstah another tour. In addition, Cro since May 5 on "Road to raop Festival Tour ", in the course of which he performs at various festivals.

In June 2012, Cros Single Easy was awarded a gold record. In addition, the accompanying video reached 30 million views on the YouTube platform. From 29 June to 1 July appeared on three consecutive days, three songs of Cro as singles. These are You, King of raop and my time. At all pieces also videos were filmed. On July 6, 2012, published with raop Cros debut album. Mid- July 2012 were located with Easy, Hi Kids, You, King of raop and My time all five of his published until then singles. Simultaneously in the top 100 in the German Single Charts Since 1 October, Cro was with " raop 2012" on his tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On October 6, he joined Wetten, dass. ? on. In 2012 he also took part along with The Orsons on Federal Vision Song Contest. On November 2, the most downloaded on iTunes and Amazon album track was once posted to the world as a CD single. Served for the song Fight The Start of Kilian in 2007 as a sample basis. The title in Austria reached the number 1, where it became the biggest success for Cro. On November 22, he received the Bambi in the category Pop National. On 6 December 2012, he was awarded the 1 Live Krone in the category Best Single for Easy.

On July 5, 2013 published the album Cro raop again with five additional songs under the name raop 5. This contains also the recently released single Whatever that reached the first Cro- song # 1 on the German charts.