Mehrzad Marashi
Mehrzad Marashi ( Persian مهرزاد مرعشی* 20th September 1980 in Iran ) is a German soul - and R & B - singer of Iranian descent. He is the winner of the seventh season of the talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar . At first, Marashi also appeared under the name Marasco .
Life
Mehrzad Marashi grew up in the Iranian capital Tehran until he was six years old. His father was in the professional military during the Shah's time. In 1986 the family emigrated to Germany for political reasons, where Hamburg became their new home. At the age of 13, Marashi entered the gospel choir of his school. He graduated from the comprehensive school in Horn. He then studied singing and piano for four semesters at the Singing Academy, but two semesters were missing for a degree.
As a result, he made several attempts to gain a foothold in the music business. Under the stage name Marasco , he published his first self-produced recordings at Warner Music Group in 2006, but they were not commercially successful. One recording that was also released as a single is She's Gone , a cover version of She's Like the Wind by Patrick Swayze .
Before he applied to DSDS, he had a karaoke bar, but it went bankrupt. For the last six months he lived on unemployment benefit II . Marashi describes himself as apolitical, but feels connected to the Iranian people. Today he likes to wear the green bracelet of the Iranian protest movement of 2009 when performing .
Germany seeks the superstar
In 2009 he applied for the seventh season of the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar , from which he emerged as the winner. In the final, he prevailed against Menowin Fröhlich , although he was number one in the caller voting in all previous motto shows, except in the top 15 show, in which Mehrzad Marashi took first place. Immediately before the final, the Bild newspaper had called on its readership to vote for Marashi.
On April 10, 2010, Marashi made a marriage proposal to his girlfriend in a live broadcast on DSDS, which she accepted. On July 7, 2010, both married in Hamburg.
One day after the final broadcast, Marashi reached number one in the German download charts with the song Don't Believe . At the same time, he set a new download record, until then no other song in Germany sold more often than Don't Believe by Marashi within a day . A few weeks later he set another record by being in the charts for longer than any DSDS winner before with his single.
| Top 15 / Mottoshow (Date) | song | Original interpreter | placement |
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| Now or never! - The Top 15 Show (February 13, 2010) | And if a song | Söhne Mannheims | 27.3% (1/15) |
| First motto show: Today's megahits (February 20, 2010) | Broken Strings | James Morrison feat. Nelly Furtado | 14.6% (2/10) |
| Second Mottoshow: Hymns of Music (February 27, 2010) | One | U2 | 9.2% (5/9) |
| Third theme show: Happy Holiday Hits (March 6, 2010) | Fresh | Kool & The Gang | 18.7% (2/8) |
| Fourth theme show: The big 80s party (March 13, 2010) | Hello | Lionel Richie | 14.0% (2/7) |
| Fifth motto show: German vs. English (March 20, 2010) | Airplanes in the stomach | Herbert Grönemeyer | 21.9% (2/6) |
| Beggin ' | The Four Seasons ( Madcon ) | ||
| Sixth motto show: party cracker vs. Ballad (March 27, 2010) | Boombastic | Shaggy | 18.4% (3/5) |
| Hard to say I'm sorry | Chicago | ||
| Seventh theme show: New vs. Old (April 3, 2010) | Crazy | Gnarls Barkley | 24.2% (2/4) 1 |
| Unchained Melody | Righteous Brothers | ||
| Semi-finals (April 10, 2010) | End of the Road (boy band song) | Boyz II Men | 37.7% (2/3) |
| Runaway (title hero of the candidates) | Del Shannon | ||
| I don't know anything (that's as beautiful as you) (No. 1 hit) | Xavier Naidoo feat. RZA | ||
| Final (April 17, 2010) | Endless Love (heart song) | Lionel Richie | 56.4% (1/2) |
| Fresh (season highlight) | Kool & The Gang | ||
| Don't Believe 2 (winning title) | (made available especially for DSDS) 3 | ||
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1 Shared second place with Manuel Hoffmann. 2 This song was also interpreted by Menowin Fröhlich. 3 The title was originally composed for Daniel Schuhmacher . |
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Career according to DSDS
On May 21, 2010 his single Sweat (A La La La La Long) was released in collaboration with Mark Medlock . The song is a cover version of the Inner Circle track of the same name . He was presented live on May 23, 2010 as part of Wetten, dass ..? . On June 11, 2010 Marashi's first solo album New Life was released , which contains ten more songs in addition to the two already released songs. A planned tour was canceled in August 2010. The reason given for the cancellation was the low demand for concert tickets. A few days later it was announced that Marashi and Dieter Bohlen would no longer work together. Also in August 2010, Marashi hosted The Dome . In February 2011, Marashi opened the dance school Mehrzads art of dance and a recording studio in the Hamburg district of Poppenbüttel .
On June 24, 2011 Marashi's second solo album Change Up was released. The first single Beautiful World was released on June 10, 2012 and stayed at number 85 in the German charts for a week. On December 9, 2011, the song One Night , written by Marashi himself, was released. In 2012 he founded his own label M8 . On December 24, 2012, Marashi released the song Wahnsinnig as a download.
In 2014 he released his first German-language album Entfesselt und frei under his first name .
Marashi has been running his recording studio in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel since April 15, 2016 under the name pobo44.
Discography
Studio albums
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Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2010 | New Life |
DE5 (10 weeks) DE |
AT3 (10 weeks) AT |
CH9 (8 weeks) CH |
First published: June 11, 2010
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| 2011 | Change Up | - | - | - |
First published: June 24, 2011
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| 2014 | Unleashed and Free | - | - | - |
First published: October 31, 2014
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2010 |
Don't believe new life |
DE1  (17 weeks)DE |
AT1 (13 weeks)AT |
CH1 (9 weeks) CH |
First published: April 18, 2010
Sales: + 165,000 |
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Sweat (A La La La La Long) New Life |
DE2 (12 weeks) DE |
AT7 (10 weeks) AT |
CH16 (4 weeks) CH |
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| 2011 | Beautiful World Change Up |
DE85 (1 week) DE |
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First published: June 10, 2011
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more publishments
- 2006: She's Gone (as Marasco feat.Big Boy Timmy & Bandanaman)
- 2007: I'm Sorry (as Marasco )
- 2011: One night
- 2018: Fly away
- 2018: NASA
- 2018: Dynamit ( feat.Silla )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DSDS: The checker has checked out BZ; March 27, 2010
- ↑ www.warnermusic.de ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2010 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.
- ↑ BZ : His life as a war child
- ↑ A guy like that mustn't become a superstar! ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2010 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. www.bild.de
- ↑ "Superstar" Mehrzad under the hood ( memento of the original from August 6, 2012 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. www.news.de
- ↑ Mehrzad Marashi with 'Don't Believe' in 1st place www.rtl.de
- ↑ Mehrzad Marashi sets a new DSDS record! ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2011 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. www.pinkclusive.de
- ↑ RTL : DSDS - Voting: This is how the audience decided www.rtl.de
- ↑ Dieter Bohlen takes old song out of the drawer ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.bild.de
- ↑ Mehrzad Marashi's tour canceled ( memento of the original from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ruhr news
- ↑ Mehrzad is not going on tour ( memento of the original from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on www.news.de
- ↑ Mehrzad Marashi moderates The Dome 55 www.thedome.de
- ↑ http://www.pressetext.com/news/20121220007
- ↑ https://de-de.facebook.com/mehrzad.marashi
- ↑ The recording studio for music, advertising and voice recordings in Hamburg. In: pobo44. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ Awards: DE AT
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Marashi, Mehrzad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marasco, Mehrzad; مهرزاد مرعشی (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soul and R&B singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iran |