Thomas Anders

Thomas Anders ( born March 1, 1963 in Mörz; actually Bernd Weidung ) is a German pop and pop singer, record producer, songwriter, TV host, Music publisher, actor, composer and writer. With over 120 million records sold it is one of the most commercially successful German singers.

• 2.1 Singles
• 2.2 albums
• 2.4 Compilations
• 2.5 Modern Talking

Life

Thomas Anders grew up in Mörz, now a district of Munstermaifeld. Already in elementary school he showed a strong interest in music, later he got piano lessons. At a first engagement he came after he prevailed from over 100 candidates in the junior competition. In the " Mosel Tanzpalast " he stepped back then about 300 times to children's songs and pop songs. Anders came to the Elector Baldwin High School, but later to Koblenz Eichendorff -Gymnasium, as he more music could be taught there in the tray. A 1980 recorded with producer Daniel David from the record company CBS plate was not a great success. In the TV show " Would you tonight ' time for me " by Michael Learns he had a 1981 appearance with the produced also by David titles are you crying about him. After graduating from the Eichendorff -Gymnasium in 1982, he studied for five semesters German, journalism and music at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In the same year he arrived at the Hansa music production under contract, crooner GG Anderson not produced with it I want your life, in 1983 asked him on behalf of the Hansa Hamburg Musikverlag Inter song if he wanted to sing Pick Up The Phone in a German version. As the producer Dieter Bohlen should be, he agreed and realized the songs What does it matter, What do you dream? and A Streetcar Named Desire. Anders currently lives in Koblenz.

Modern Talking

Only when his music producer Dieter Bohlen in the fall of 1984 launched an English-language Euro Disco project and together with Anders called the duo Modern Talking in life, came up with the title You're My Heart, You're My Soul in January 1985 almost overnight success.

Unlike the press was mainly due to its oversized gold necklace with the words " NORA " on. With this chain Anders presented the union with his then- wife Nora Balling flaunt that he ecclesiastically married on July 27, 1985 in Sacred Heart Church in Koblenz. Music journalist Martin Brem Anders had referred in a column of the journal Musik Express / Sounds as " höhensonnengegerbte Sangesschwuchtel and lapdogs at the golden chain of his wife, Nora ." Unlike sued the magazine, and it was sentenced to pay restitution in the amount of DM 25,000. Another trademark of Thomas Anders was the remote keyboard ( keytar ), which he often presented in appearances and photo ops.

After the preliminary resolution by Modern Talking towards the end of 1987, Anders moved back to the U.S. in the short term and produced with his wife, a song titled Waiting So Long, sung by Man- X; the plate was not a commercial success. 1990 Thomas Anders sang for the German release of the animated series DuckTales the intro in English one.

In 1994, Anders came back to Koblenz. After the marriage to Nora Balling was divorced in February 1999, he married Claudia Hess 2000; 2002 their son was born.

1993 Anders played in the wake of the Stockholm Marathon Beck series the pop star " Ypsilon ". The novel provided by Wahlöö and Maj Sjöwall. The station RTL broadcast the German - Swedish co-production in 1995. The title song from the album Marathon of Life When Will I See You Again sang himself as a solo artist Anders released several English albums Thomas Anders.

With Barcos de Cristal Furthermore, published in 1994 a sung in Spanish album. The CD was released in the United States and South America in Argentina and took first place in the charts.

Reunion of Modern Talking

In 1998, Bohlen and Anders together again and it was the comeback of Modern Talking. The comeback album Back for Good, which consisted mostly of remixed versions of hits from the 1980s, reaching number one, and gold and platinum status in over 18 countries. In the following years, annually published a new Modern Talking album, from which two singles were released. To this end, the band was also regularly on tour. Could be seamlessly continues the success of the 1980s, selling moderately they could even be exceeded.

In the summer of 2000 Anders was one of the composers of the music Big Brother, sung by Zlatko Trpkovski and Jürgen Milski. The CD gained platinum status in the German single charts.

2001 produced Thomas Anders together with Gerd Graf Bernadotte (Dieter Bohlen management) the pop -girl duo It-girls, with the hit My Heart It Feels Like (Dub Dub ... ). Likewise, Thomas Anders wrote the song Cry for You for the girl band No Angels. Parallel and predominantly Thomas Anders Modern Talking turned to continue.

On 7 June 2003 Bohlen announced the separation of Modern Talking. Bohlen Anders defamed in his book Behind the Scenes. This complained against some of the statements and got right; the relevant passages had to be blackened.

Solo career

In 2004 he released the album This Time, and three singles, which, however, failed to build on the success of Modern Talking. The first single Independent Girl in Germany reached immediately the top 20th In Russia, the single even climbed to fifth place. In Turkey, Anders reached number two on the charts with his second single King of Love. Anders also produced in the same year, the single Just Dream about a holiday- on- ice show. The song reached number 64 on the charts in Germany.

In spring 2005, Anders had to put on trial a defeat against piles, when his claim for damages in the amount of one million euros was rejected for slander in Bohlen's book. The judgment in 2005 appealed to the Court of Appeal was filed on March 21, which ended on 28 October 2005 by a closed between the parties compare over 60,000 euros. The sum donated Thomas Anders over time to various charitable institutions. Before the Berlin Regional Court had already banned in June relevant text passages. In 2003, Anders got an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. He had undercut in a television broadcast the previous record in Eischneeschlagen a few seconds and is therefore 38 seconds of the "fastest Eischneeschläger the world."

Stefan Raab, Thomas Anders end of 2003, alongside Joy Fleming, in the jury of SSDSGPS (Stefan seeks the super Grand Prix star ), a kind of counter-event to the popular, dominated by Dieter Bohlen Germany show Pop Idol. Thomas Anders hosted the national show for the Euro Vision Song Contest and leaving Germany points. As of March 2004, Thomas Anders moderator of the cable -one music show Best Of Formula One and ahead of the 2006 World Cup, he hosted the music show " On to Berlin " - WM- Kulttour. 2006 saw a jazz- oriented album of cover versions of popular hits from the 1980s.

On 9 March 2006 Anders was one of the three members of the German advance to divorce Euro Vision Song Contest 2006 and failed with his song songs did Live Forever (2nd place) at the country band Texas Lightning. The accompanying album "Songs Forever" is still regarded as the most personal and praised by the music critics at the most work of the artist. Here, Anders chose some timeless hits of the 1980s and missed these songs together with the producers Achim Brochhausen and Peter Ries including the Film Orchestra Babelsberg and the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, a new musical garb in jazz / swing / lounge style, which Anders voice also offside should establish the Pop. The album was, however, not least because of missed finals of the Euro Vision Song Contest to date the least successful album of the artist. In the Media Control Charts, growth was only ranked 46th in the same year awarded the title "Honorary Professor of the Kiev National University of Art and Culture" was awarded on March 20.

Together with the Berlin based producer team Sound -Chateau Anders published in July 2008, the two songs Ibiza Baba Baya and For You as a download, now back in the musical Pop / House - settled the area, followed in November 2008, Christmas Song Kisses for Christmas. In this song he reunited with his longtime musician friend Achim Brochhausen.

In spring 2009, a duet with German pop singer Sandra appeared, which could also be placed in the German single charts and on 16 May of the same year he took over from Thomas Hermanns, the moderation of the Euro Vision Song Contest countdown. Together with Aleksandra Bechtel, he presented on 16 May 2010, the first shipment of the new charts on RTL2.

Also appeared in the spring of 2010 in Russia a new Pop-/Dance- album called Strong, the first gold and later even reached the platinum status with over 500,000 records sold. For this purpose, Anders worked with the Russian producer Sergey Revtov. The resulting coupled- Singles Why Do You Cry and Stay With Me two -consuming and costly, videos were made with the internationally successful video clip director Pavel Hoodyiakov. The album was released due to the big success in Russia in September 2011 and worldwide for download, including five previously unreleased songs.

In November 2012, the artist published an English-language Christmas album entitled " Christmas For You". Thus he fulfilled and many of his numerous fans a long-awaited desire. It contains well-known classic American Christmas carols some personal favorites of the artist, which are the masses far less familiar. The project worked Anders, as with "Songs Forever" (2006), again with Achim Brochhausen together, the purpose also wrote a couple of completely new songs and was responsible for the arrangement of the entire album. There are on the CD both very contemplative and lively and cheerful songs that high again among the more challenging works of the singer, which was also perceived by the critics mostly so. However, a chart success as "Strong " or the 2011 published Anders / Fahrenkrog album "Two" turned out similar to Broch Stockhausen's production "Songs Forever", not one.

Anders | Fahrenkrog

In May 2011, Anders announced a new collaboration with the songwriters and producers Uwe Fahrenkrog -Petersen as a duo Anders | Fahrenkrog known. Their first single Gigolo was published on 27 May 2011 and rose in the German single charts at number 40. The album Two was released on 10 June and reached number 11 on the German album charts. The second single of the title No more tears on the dancefloor was coupled out in September 2011, for which they collaborated with the internationally known DJ Project " Vinylshakerz ". Was written the title of the former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes.

The collaboration of Thomas Anders and Uwe Fahrenkrog -Petersen has a long term according to a statement by the two artists and combines influences of the 1980s with modern dance and electro beats.

Discography

Singles

Solo career before Modern Talking (1980-1984)

After the first separation of Modern Talking (1989-1997)

After the second separation of Modern Talking (since 2003)

• 2003: Independent Girl
• 2004: King of Love ( based on the title "Ma quale idea" Pino D' Angio of )
• 2004: Tonight Is the Night
• 2004: Just Dream
• 2006: A Very Special Feeling ( as a supplement to the Rhein-Zeitung, in favor of the aid initiative, "Help us to live " )
• 2006: All Around The World
• 2006: Songs That Live Forever
• 2008: Goals ( with Sistanova )
• 2008: Ibiza - Baba Baya (Sound Chateau feat Thomas Anders. )
• 2008: For You (Sound Chateau feat Thomas Anders. )
• 2008: Kisses for Christmas
• 2009: The Night Is Still Young ( Sandra feat Thomas Anders. )
• 2010: Why Do You Cry (Russia ) (# 21)
• 2010: Stay With Me (Russia)
• 2010: The Christmas Song
• 2011: Gigolo (Anders Fahrenkrog I )
• 2011: No More Tears on the Dancefloor (Anders Fahrenkrog I )

Albums

After the first separation of Modern Talking: (1989-1997)

After the second separation of Modern Talking (since 2003)

• 2004: This Time
• 2006: Songs Forever
• 2010: Strong ( Russia) ( # 2)
• 2011: Two (Anders Fahrenkrog I )
• 2012: Christmas for you

• 2006: The DVD Collection

Compilations

Modern Talking

Awards

On 20 March 2006 Anders was appointed by the National University of Art and Culture in Kiev honorary professor, on the grounds: Modern Talking have shaped the musical tastes of a generation.