Michael Schulte (singer)

Michael Schulte, 2019

Michael Schulte (born April 30, 1990 in Eckernförde ) is a German singer-songwriter . He first became known for posting cover versions of successful songs on his YouTube channel. He reached third place in the singing casting show The Voice of Germany in 2012 and released his most successful album to date, Wide Awake , in the same year . 2018 he represented with the song You Let Me Walk Alone Germany at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon , reaching fourth place there.

Life

Youth and private life

Michael Schulte, 2012

Schulte grew up in Lindau an der Schlei and moved to Dollerup near Flensburg when he was eleven . In 2009 he graduated from Duborg-Skolen , the Danish high school in Flensburg, and speaks fluent Danish as well as German . Then he did his community service . He has been married since June 2018 and lives with his wife in Buxtehude . The couple had a son in August 2018.

YouTube activity

Since February 2008 he has been regularly uploading cover versions of current songs to the Internet video portal YouTube. In these, he usually accompanies himself with the guitar . In total, his videos have been viewed over 50 million times. His most watched video is the cover version of the song Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye and Kimbra , sung with Max Giesinger , which has been viewed over 4.6 million times. In April 2010 he signed a management contract with viva la media GmbH. In August 2010 he signed a label deal with Weinstein Media. In June 2011 he was on stage with the singer Rea Garvey , who had previously discovered him on YouTube, at the Kieler Woche .

Participation in The Voice of Germany

From the end of 2011 he took part in the singing casting show The Voice of Germany . At the blind auditions , he was selected by Garvey, who served as a juror and vocal coach on the show. He then qualified for the live shows that will take place in early 2012. His cover version of the Radiohead song Creep from the first live show then reached number 62 in the German charts . Michael Schulte moved into the final of the four best participants and came in third on February 10, 2012. With his title Carry Me Home he then reached the top 10 of the German charts. From February to March 2012 he accompanied Garvey on his I Can't Stand the Silence tour, where he presented his single Carry Me Home and performed the musical song Feeling Good together with Garvey .

Further career

In June 2012, Schulte signed a contract with the Very Us Records label of WVG Medien GmbH. In September and October 2012 he toured Germany with Max Giesinger. Schulte's album Wide Awake entered the media control newcomer charts at number 1. Rea Garvey wrote the song Beautiful Life for this album , the rest of the songs he wrote alone or with other songwriters. In December 2012 he released his EP Grow Old with Me including his second single You Said You'd Grow Old with Me from his album Wide Awake .

Schulte was on the Grow Old with Me Solo Acoustic Tour in spring 2013 and presented his album across Germany. He played a total of 29 concerts, including one in Vienna . In November 2013 he released the Christmas album My Christmas Classics , on which he presented twelve Christmas classics in a new look, in addition to his own song. In November and December he also accompanied the British boy band Blue in the opening act for their Germany tour.

In February 2014 Schulte released his first single, Rock and Scissors, from his studio album The Arising , which was released in October 2014. In May 2014 he released his EP Thoughts including the second single of the same name from the album. From November he will present his album on a Germany-wide tour. In August 2014 he was awarded the PlayAward in the music category at the VideoDays in Cologne. From March 2017 he was seen in the role of Micha in the three-part ZDFneo television series Neomaniacs . In April 2017 he released the album Hold the Rhythm .

In February 2018 he took part in the German preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Our song for Lisbon . With a maximum of 36 points, he prevailed against five other applicants and represented Germany at the ESC in Lisbon. He reached fourth place with 340 points.

On June 23, 2018, the radio play and album for the project Die Kinder der toten Stadt - music drama against oblivion was released . Schulte sings and speaks the main male role of Albert. The play tells of the children imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto , their life there and their murder in the Nazi death camps .

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2012	Wide awake	DE54 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: September 28, 2012
2014	The Arising	DE81 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: October 3, 2014
2019	Highs & Lows	DE23 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: October 25, 2019

More albums

• 2011: All the Waves
• 2011: Berlin Sessions
• 2013: My Christmas Classics
• 2017: Hold the Rhythm

Live albums

• 2011: Acoustic Cover - Live, Vol. 1
• 2011: Acoustic Cover - Live, Vol. 2
• 2012: Acoustic Cover - Live, Vol. 3

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2018	Dreamer	DE29 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: May 4, 2018

EPs

• 2012: Grow Old with Me
• 2014: Thoughts

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2012	Creep	DE62 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: January 6, 2012 (Download)
	Video games	DE66 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: January 27, 2012 (Download)
	Carry Me Home	DE8 (4 weeks) DE	AT30 (3 weeks) AT	CH25 (3 weeks) CH	Initial release: February 3, 2012 (download) Physical release: February 10, 2012 (CD)
2018	You Let Me Walk Alone Dreamer	DE3 (8 weeks) DE	AT23 (2 weeks) AT	CH27 (1 week) CH	First publication: February 20, 2018 German contribution to the ESC 2018
2019	Back to the Start Highs & Lows	DE33 gold (19 weeks)DE	-	-	First published: Jan 25, 2019 Sales: + 200,000

More singles

• 2010: Soul Traveler
• 2011: She
• 2011: Tears
• 2011: Good Times
• 2011: Last Christmas
• 2012: Human
• 2012: Without you
• 2012: Jump Before We Fall
• 2012: You Said You'd Grow Old with Me
• 2014: Light My Fire
• 2014: Rock and Scissors
• 2014: The Maze
• 2016: Money On Me (with Møtions)
• 2017: End of My Days
• 2017: Falling Apart
• 2018: The children of the dead city (musical drama, leading role of Albert )
• 2018: Still the same sky / Alone ( Peter Heppner & Jade Schulz / Michael Schulte)
• 2018: Never Let You Down
• 2018: Being Home
• 2018: The Love You Left Behind
• 2019: All I Need
• 2020: Keep Me Up
• 2020: Wrong Direction (with Ilse DeLange )
• 2020: For a Second

As a guest singer

• 2015: Indigo ( Fewjar feat. Michael Schulte)
• 2016: Remember Yesterday ( Alle Farben feat. Perttu & Michael Schulte)
• 2016: Carmine (Fewjar feat. Michael Schulte)
• 2017: Two Princes (Acoustic Version) ( Fake Pictures feat. Michael Schulte)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Netherlands 2019: for the single You Let Me Walk Alone

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	-	20,000	nvpi.nl
All in all	2 × gold2	-

Awards

• 2018: Audience Bambi: "New German Music Stars"

Filmography (selection)

• 2017: neoManiacs (TV series, actor)

Web links

Commons : Michael Schulte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michael Schulte in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Michael Schulte at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bento.de/musik/michael-schulte-sieben-dinge-die-du-ueber-deutschlands-esc-saenger-wissen-solltest-2127770/
2. ↑ Dolleruper wants to be "The Voice of Germany". Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, accessed on March 27, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) 
3. ↑ ESC star Michael Schulte is father: "He's finally here". In: Spiegel Online . August 18, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ YouTube: Michael Schulte, Kanalinfo . Online at www.youtube.com. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
5. ↑ YouTube: Michael Schulte, Videos, sorted according to greatest popularity . Online at www.youtube.com. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
6. ↑ YouTube: Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know - Michael Schulte & Max Giesinger COVER . Online at www.youtube.com. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
7. ↑ http://4artistsservices.blogspot.de/2012/03/4artists-services-by-weinstein-media.html
8. ↑ Candidate Michael Schulte is already very big on Youtube , Bild.de
9. ↑ Charts Germany week 3: “The Voice” candidates board single top 100 ( memento of the original from January 19, 2012 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. , Musikmarkt.de of January 17, 2012 
10. ↑ The Voice of Germany - Rea Garvey and Michael Schulte rocken Flensburg , shz.de from March 1, 2012
11. ↑ Very Us Records continues to grow: “Youtube star” Michael Schulte signs an exclusive artist contract . very-us.com, June 8, 2012, accessed on May 23, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
12. ↑ http://www.gfk-entertainment.com/news/michael-schulte-bester-newcomer-der-woche.html
13. ↑ Michael Schulte - Interview . dreamoutloudmagazin.de, September 26, 2012, accessed on May 23, 2013.
14. ↑ Michael Schulte on Solo Acoustic Tour in spring 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . very-us.com, December 13, 2012, accessed May 23, 2013. 
15. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.kosmosmedia.de/de/projekte/kuenstler/michaelschulte/
16. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
17. ↑ http://www.dreamoutloudmagazin.de/news/michael-schulte/
18. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 10, 2014 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. 
19. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/pm/13440/2810528/bravo-auf-den-video-days-michael-schulte-als-bester-music-act-ausgezeich-bravo/mf
20. ↑ ESC preliminary decision: These are the candidates. NDR, accessed December 29, 2017 . 
21. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2FyIXWoOo , Michael Schulte "The children of the dead city"
22. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources albums: Charts DE
23. ↑ Chart sources Singles: Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH