Decoy (musician)

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Nilsen aka Decoy (2018)

Lockvogel (actually Nils Mechlinski ) is a German pop singer and DJ . He publishes music for children under the pseudonym Nilsen .

Career

Nils Mechlinski comes from the Dorsten district of Rhade . He took part in church camps as a youth guide, including in the Communauté de Taizé , and completed a voluntary social year in the youth monastery in Kirchhellen in Bottrop in 2012/13 .

In 2014, Mechlinski took part in the eighth season of the casting show Das Supertalent on RTL , but missed making it into the final show. Together with the DJ Jan Leyk , he released the singles Ne Second Summer and We were there as the duo Leyk + Lockvogel in 2015 , which both made it into the German charts. According to the record company Universal , the two musicians met by chance in September 2014 in the hallway of a Berlin recording studio.

In 2016, together with the singer Meltem Acikgöz , who took second place in the 11th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2014 , he released the song Geile Zeit , an electro cover version of the July song of the same name from 2004.

He publishes music for children under the pseudonym Nilsen . The EP Sommerferien was released in July 2018 .

Discography

Singles

year title
 Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, , Placements, weeks, awards, comments) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2015 A second of summer DE40 (8 weeks)
DE 		AT44 (3 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: June 5th, 2015
Leyk + Decoy
We were there DE60 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: September 18, 2015
Leyk + Decoy

More singles

  • 2016: Geile Zeit (First published: July 8, 2016; Lockvogel feat. Meltem )
  • 2017: Throw a round (first published: June 23, 2017)

EPs

  • 2018: summer vacation (as Nilsen)

Web links

  • Decoy at Universal Music

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stefan Diebäcker: "Decoy" from Dorsten celebrating Single premiere. Dorstener Zeitung, May 30, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ "Super Talent" Nils Mechlinski - former FSJler. Kirchhellen Youth Monastery, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Welcome to Universal Music: Jan Leyk + Decoy = Leyk & Decoy. Universal Music, June 4, 2015, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Lockvogel presents his new summer hit "Geile Zeit" feat. Meltem. Universal Music, July 8, 2016, accessed July 13, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT
personal data
SURNAME decoy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mechlinski, Nils (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century