Ayman
Ayman (* 1974 in West Berlin as Ayman Toukabri ) is a German pop singer of Tunisian descent.
biography
Ayman grew up mostly in Berlin-Kreuzberg , but at the request of his father also spent three years at a boarding school in Tunisia. The "Triple M Team" discovered him in 1998 as a background singer . He sang in the background on the single pain in me by former tic-tac-toe singer Ricky . In the spring of 1999 he brought out his first own single, 1,000 times .
His breakthrough came in 2000 with the song Mein Stern . It reached number four in the German single charts , the top 20 in Austria and Switzerland . Other singles like Just a Night , Only Truth Counts and This Letter were also chart successes. Sean Combs became aware of Ayman in the same year and hired him as a support act .
After a successful year for Ayman began again with a new album Not only words in 2004, things grew quieter around him in the following years. In 2008 his third album Es ist Zeit was released . The single Mein Wort is the theme music for the new edition of the TV show Traumhochzeit . In 2010 Ayman released his fourth album Ein Mensch wie Du and recorded a single with Marianne Rosenberg .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2000 | High explosive |
DE5  (58 weeks)DE |
AT16 (12 weeks) AT |
CH45 (10 weeks) CH |
First published: March 27, 2000
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| 2004 | Not just words |
DE68 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 4, 2004
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More albums
- 2008: it's time
- 2010: a person like you
Singles
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DE
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AT
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CH
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| 1999 | 1000 high explosives |
DE47 (12 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: June 1999
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| My star high explosive |
DE4th (30 weeks)DE |
AT17 (15 weeks) AT |
CH13 (27 weeks) CH |
First published: December 1999
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| 2000 | High explosive only for one night |
DE19 (15 weeks) DE |
AT22 (8 weeks) AT |
CH69 (8 weeks) CH |
First published: June 2000
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| This letter is highly explosive |
DE20 (11 weeks) DE |
- |
CH76 (9 weeks) CH |
First release: October 2000
feat. Keith Sweat |
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| 2001 | Only the truth matters |
DE25 (7 weeks) DE |
AT74 (1 week) AT |
CH83 (2 weeks) CH |
First release: March 2001
feat. Naima |
| You bring love with you |
DE40 (8 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: September 2001
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| 2004 | You belong to me Not just words |
DE71 (4 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: August 2004
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More singles
- 1998: Come Into My Life '98 (The Admirers feat.Killer and Ayman)
- 2000: Ayman's hit medley
- 2004: What you call love
- 2010: Lower
Awards
- 2000: Golden Europe , special award of the SR 1 European wave
- 2001: Fred Jay Prize
- 2001: Echo (music award) , national artist of the year
- 2001: Echo (music award) , national newcomer of the year
- 2001: Golden tuning fork
swell
- ↑ Ayman: Short biography, musicians from Berlin , download from March 22, 2018 as a memento
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Awards: DE
Web links
- official homepage
- Ayman at Discogs (English)
- Ayman at laut.de
- Works by and about Ayman in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ayman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toukabri, Ayman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Tunisian soul pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | West Berlin |