Clueso
Clueso [ klyˈzo ] ( ), bourgeois Thomas Hübner , (born April 9, 1980 in Erfurt ) is a German singer , rapper , songwriter , producer and author .
Life
Beginnings and first album "Text and Sound"
Clueso grew up in Ichtershausen south of Erfurt. He describes his school days as very difficult; he finished his school career with the secondary school certificate and then took up training as a hairdresser , which he did not complete.
Clueso - the name is borrowed from the character of Inspector Clouseau from Blake Edwards ' film The Pink Panther - has been making music since 1995, initially with the EFP 96 ( Erfurt Project 1996 ), which later became the Wostok MCs . In addition to Clueso, the Wostok MCs also included DJ Malik and Steer M, who still often perform with Clueso today. Through numerous jams in Kassablanca in Jena and in other cities in Germany, he was able to train his skills as a rapper and entertainer .
After breaking off his hairdressing apprenticeship in 1998, he met his future manager, Andreas Welskop. The first self-made vinyl release Clüsolo (then still called Clüso ) did not appear in stores , but only served promotional purposes . In 1999 he moved with Welskop to the 10vor10 studios in Cologne , and a year later he got a record deal with Four Music . The first Clueso album Text and Sound was released on this label in 2001 . With his live band Curfew , Clueso u. a. at the MTV HipHop Open in Stuttgart and at the Beats for Life in Cologne. In total, Clueso completed more than 100 concerts with a band and a DJ set.
2002–2005: Second album “Gute Musik” and musical breakthrough
In 2002 Clueso moved back to Erfurt and recorded the Rowdy Club tape 2002 as the front man of the Rowdy Club (now Rhythm Club ) in the newly established Zughafen , located in a building in the old Erfurt freight yard . Another year later, the production of the second album Gute Musik , which he finished in 2004, began. This included Blumentopf , Marcel Aue , Steer M, Tilmann Jarmer, Delhia, Tim Neuhaus and the Erfurt blues guitarist Jürgen Kerth . In contrast to its very rap-heavy predecessor, it contains significantly more vocal numbers, and English guest contributions were dispensed with. In addition to the typical hip-hop topics, the pleasant and unpleasant consequences of cannabis use are also addressed (e.g. forgetting is so easy ). Like the previous album, Gute Musik also contains skits .
When he moved to Erfurt, his collaboration with his band Curfew suffered, which is why he brought together several Thuringian musicians (mainly the Weimar band StoryPlay ), with whom he performed live as a clueso and band . On January 30, 2005 the single No Bock zu Geh'n was released . The video was produced in-house under the direction of his friend Thomas Wolf / Steer M. With this song he represented Thuringia at the Bundesvision Song Contest on February 12, 2005, where he came in seventh place.
In October 2005, Clueso went on a concert workshop tour through Italy for the Goethe Institute as an ambassador for a young, vibrant Germany . His music serves as a means to carry the poetry of the German language abroad. In total, he and his band performed around 30 concerts and workshops for the Goethe Institute in Italy, Australia, New Zealand and China. Clueso himself has given almost 200 concerts and workshops for the Goethe-Institut in Asia, all of Europe, Australia and North America, mostly with his companion Norman Sinn .
2006–2007: Third album "Weit Weg"
On May 19, 2006, his third album Weit Weg was released , on which the song Chicago can be found. On February 3, 2007, a concert took place in Berlin at the Fritz Club in the former Postbahnhof, at which Clueso performed his songs in an arrangement for more than 70 instruments together with his band and the STÜBAphilharmonie (a Thuringian volunteer orchestra). Between its own pieces the orchestra played excerpts from the symphonic suite Metropolis by Steffen Heinze. The collaboration with the STÜBAphilharmonie was continued at the end of 2007. Clueso was the support act for Herbert Grönemeyer's concerts on his 12th tour in May / June 2007. He was recognized by 1live in 2007 with a nomination in the category Best Live Act of the radio audience award 1 Live Krone .
In September 2007 the single Lala was released , a song that was recorded especially for the soundtrack for the film Leroy .
2008–2009: Fourth album “So much there” and live album with the STÜBAphilharmonie
On February 14th, 2008, Clueso again represented the federal state of Thuringia with the song Keinen Centimeter at the Bundesvision Song Contest 2008 , organized by Stefan Raab , and took second place there, one point behind. In the German charts, the song took 15th place, bringing Clueso to its first top 20 placement. On May 30th, 2008 his fourth album So much with it and his second single Take along were released. On October 3, 2008, the third single, nobody thinks of you, from the same album followed. On December 4th, 2008 Clueso was awarded the 1 Live Krone for the first time as best artist - he prevailed against Thomas D , Peter Heppner , Curse and Nneka .
On April 3, 2009 , the fourth single from his studio album Winner , So Much included , was released and achieved gold status . Also in April 2009, So very much was released LIVE as a live CD / DVD, on which videos and performances with songs from his previous albums can also be seen.
In 2009, the collaboration with the Stübaphilharmonie culminated in the double album Clueso and Stübaphilharmonie , released in July 2010. The orchestra's concert tour with Clueso in 2009 was a lavish one . It took the ensemble of 90 musicians, a 30-person crew and technology through Germany - Ludwigsburg, Kassel, Essen, Düsseldorf (Tonhalle), Bochum (EinsliveKrone) and Hamburg (NDR Liebermann Studio). This tour was not only fully self-financed from ticket income, but the above-mentioned live album was also created on it. Clueso opened the 1 Live Krone award ceremony with the orchestra on December 3, 2009. The performance was played entirely live. As in the previous year, Clueso received the 1Live crown as best artist, and he also received the award for best single for the song winner .
2010–2012: Fifth album “An und für sich” and collaboration with Udo Lindenberg and Wolfgang Niedecken
In the summer of 2010, Clueso traveled to Spain to record his new studio album, which was released in the spring of 2011. In October 2010 he appeared again at the Bundesvision Song Contest , this time as a guest musician for the Thuringian contribution by Norman Sinn & Ryo , who took sixth place. At the beginning of December 2010, Clueso published his first book Clueso. From and about. The first edition was limited to 10,000 pieces, signed and numbered. In addition to many photos, the book also contains song texts, anecdotes and stories by and about the artist. A second unsigned edition is now available in stores.
The fifth studio album In and for itself , which also contains the single Too fast over , was released on March 25, 2011.
On September 16, 2011, a cover version of Udo Lindenberg's cello was released , which was sung in June together with the original interpreter as part of an MTV Unplugged concert. 5 November 2011 Clueso and Lindenberg sang the song in the ZDF telecast Wetten, dass ..?
Since 2011, Clueso has been promoting learning to read and write as part of the iChance campaign , which is carried out by the Federal Association for Literacy and Basic Education .
In 2011 Clueso u. a. nominated for the MTV Europe Music Award - Best German Act , which however was won by the singer Lena Meyer-Landrut . In the same year he again received the 1 Live Krone as best artist and sat down a. a. against Herbert Grönemeyer.
With the singer Wolfgang Niedecken and his band BAP , Clueso released a single called All the Moments , which was made available for download . 100% of the revenue from the downloads went to Niedecken's Africa projects. The song was first presented at the Echo 2012 . In addition, Clueso gave a laudation at this award ceremony and sang a. a. with Thomas D, Ina Müller and Barbara Schöneberger as the epilogue of the evening Damned long ago .
2012–2014: Own label and sixth album "Stadtrandlichter"
In 2012 he founded the label Text und Ton, named after his first album . The first publication about it, his sixth album, is entitled Stadtrandlichter and was released on September 19, 2014. For this he already organized everything himself with the exception of the concert booking.
“I write a lot of songs and sort an album according to a kind of 'column' of 'inspired' works. There are songs where you immediately know: I don't have to do anything anymore. The music was your friend that day. The 'muse', EVERYTHING was somehow perfect. An album is then based on these songs and a kind of mixtape is created. They then attract others; big songs - like a pillar for an album - attract others. They then stand together and 'fight' with one another, and some simply fall away. That's why a lot of the songs are dropped. "
The album Stadtrandlichter went straight to number one in the German album charts as the artist's first album . On December 4, 2014, Clueso again won a 1 Live Crown as best artist and thus prevailed against Herbert Grönemeyer, Jan Delay and others. iTunes named Stadttrandlichter iTunes Album of the Year 2014 on December 8, 2014. In January 2015, Stadttrandlichter achieved gold status .
Clueso appeared in the German version of the charity song Do They Know It's Christmas? from Band Aid , which celebrated its world premiere on November 21, 2014 and reached the top of the German single charts.
2015–2018: Separation from the band, seventh album "Neuanfang" and collaboration with the Fantastischen Vier
After a last joint appearance at the Neue DeutschPoeten on September 4, 2015, Clueso announced the separation from his band. In retrospect, he justified this step with the pressure that he felt due to the band's years of dependence on himself and that he no longer felt able to cope with.
For his seventh album and the accompanying tour, Clueso put together a new band, but announced regularly changing line-ups. In October 2016 the album Neuanfang was released , with which he was able to place himself at the top of the German album charts . On December 1st, 2016, Clueso was honored again at the 1 Live Krone , where he was named “Best Artist” for the fifth time.
In March 2018 Die Fantastischen Vier and Clueso released the single together . The song was the official song of the DFB as well as the ARD for the 2018 World Cup and reached third place in the German single charts.
Since 2018: Eighth album "Handgepäck I"
On August 24, 2018 Cluesos eighth studio album was released in hand luggage I , with whom he for the third time chart peak reached in Germany. It is an acoustic album whose 18 songs Clueso collected over seven years while traveling.
On February 13, 2020, Clueso's song “Tell me what you want” was released. A few months later another song, "Tanzen", came out. On July 31, 2020, a collaboration with rappers Capital Bra and KC Rebell , “Other World” was released.
- Clueso and band at the Fritz DeutschPoeten on September 1, 2018
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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| 2001 | Text and sound Four Music |
- | - | - |
First published: April 30, 2001
|
| 2004 | Good music four music |
DE53  (3 weeks)DE |
- | - |
First published: June 18, 2004
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2006 | Far away Four Music |
DE12 (13 weeks)DE |
- |
CH62 (5 weeks) CH |
First published: May 19, 2006
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2008 | So much for Four Music |
DE3 × 3
(53 weeks)DE |
AT40 (1 week) AT |
CH26 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: May 30, 2008
Sales: + 300,000 |
| 2011 | In and of itself Columbia Records |
DE2  (42 weeks)DE |
AT20 (4 weeks) AT |
CH24 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: March 25, 2011
Sales: + 200,000 |
| 2014 | Outskirts Text and Sound Records |
DE1 (22 weeks)DE |
AT12 (3 weeks) AT |
CH6 (4 weeks) CH |
First published: September 19, 2014
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2016 | New beginning Universal Music |
DE1 (46 weeks)DE |
AT14 (2 weeks) AT |
CH15 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: October 14, 2016
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2018 | Hand luggage I Vertigo Records |
DE1 (9 weeks) DE |
AT17 (1 week) AT |
CH12 (4 weeks) CH |
First published: August 24, 2018
|
Awards
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1 live crown
- 2008: for best artist
- 2009: for best artist
- 2009: for best single (winner)
- 2011: for best artist
- 2014: for best artist
- 2016: for best artist
- 2018: for Best Single (together with Die Fantastischen Vier )
- Fred Jay Prize 2011
- Paul-Lincke-Ring of the city of Goslar 2015
- Radio Rainbow Award for Artists National 2016
literature
- Clueso: Clueso. From and about. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-578-4 .
Web links
- Official website
- WDR Rockpalast: Clueso, live 2006 - concert recording, background reports, photos & specials
- WDR Rockpalast mobil: Out and about with Clueso - Road trip to the Ruhr2010
- Clueso on MusicBrainz (English)
- Clueso at laut.de
swell
- ↑ Cathrin Gilbert: His home and everything. Zeit Online, September 15, 2016, accessed September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Clueso & Band: Rhythm & Poetry - Simply good music! Website of the Goethe-Institut Rome, accessed on March 10, 2011
- ^ Steffen Heinzes "Metropolis" performed by Clueso & Band and STÜBA-Philharmonie . Website from Steffen Heinze. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ↑ Bundesvision Song Contest 2008 ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ derwesten.de: Clueso clears the 1Live crown . News from December 3, 2009
- ^ Clueso: Clueso. From and about. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-578-4 .
- ↑ Legend of German rock music: Udo Lindenberg sings with Clueso . ( Memento from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) wettendass.zdf.de.
- ↑ iCHANCE Profi Portal: Celebrities. Retrieved August 2, 2011 .
- ↑ YouTube: Clueso for ALFA music. September 5, 2008, accessed August 2, 2011 .
- ^ Daniel Schieferdecker: 3 questions for Clueso in Juice No. 162, p. 21.
- ↑ Ralf Schluenzen: Clueso Interview: Production and songwriting of "Stadtrandlichter". Bonedo, September 17, 2014, accessed September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Clueso and his band split up after 14 years. DerWesten.de, September 7, 2015, accessed on September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Niloufar Behradi-Ohnacker: Interview with Clueso: “I was told that I would be clinically dead on the job market.” Blogrebellen, September 28, 2017, accessed September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ "Erfurt is a small anchor for me". stern.de, August 24, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 .
- ↑ "Always free, never at will!" - Clueso awarded the Paul-Lincke-Ring 2015 ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at goslar.de, accessed on July 4, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clueso |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hübner, Thomas (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer and rapper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt , GDR |