Vanessa Jean Dedmon

Vanessa Jean Dedmon (2007)

Vanessa Jean Dedmon (born April 28, 1987 in Braunfels ) is a German singer . She became known to a wide audience in spring 2006 as a candidate for the third season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS). In autumn 2006 she started her solo career.

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Dedmon was born to Waltraud and Russell Dedmon as one of three children. Her parents encouraged her musical career at an early age. She discovered her love for music at the age of six. She has been taking singing lessons since she was 16. She celebrated her first success with first place in a song competition. Vanessa lives in Hermannstein , a district of Wetzlar .

Germany seeks the superstar

In autumn 2005 she took part in the auditions for the talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar on the German TV station RTL . Against the competition of over 1200 applicants, Dedmon made it to the bottom three candidates. In the penultimate broadcast of the season, however, it failed in the telephone audience vote on the eventual winner Tobias Regner . During the eliminations, she fell in love with her competitor Mike Leon Grosch . They got closer when Dedmon and Grosch rehearsed and sang the duet by Jeanette Biedermann and Ronan Keating We've Got Tonight . The relationship ended three months after the final broadcast.

Motto show	song	Original interpreter	Callers in percent
Top 10 show	There you'll be	Faith Hill
Top 7 show	Living to Love You	Sarah Connor
Greatest hits	Run to you	Whitney Houston	35.1% (place 1 of 10)
80s hits	Time after time	Cyndi Lauper	15.7% (2nd place out of 9)
Rock Classic	Knockin 'on Heaven's Door	Bob Dylan	11.0% (4th place out of 8)
Big Band	Somewhere over the rainbow	Judy Garland	17.4% (2nd place out of 7)
Love songs	Hero	Mariah Carey	20.2% (2nd place out of 6)
Number one hits	I Wanna Dance with Somebody Without You	Whitney Houston Harry Nilsson	15.6% (4th place out of 5)
soul	Get Here Fallin '	Oleta Adams Alicia Keys	20.9% (3rd place of 4)
Cozy skirt	I Turn to You Greatest Love of All For you	Christina Aguilera Whitney Houston Yvonne Catterfeld	17.1% (3rd place out of 3)

Solo career

In contrast to her two DSDS opponents Regner and Grosch, who both released their respective winning song immediately after the final, Vanessa Jean did not bring her winning song Learn to Breathe onto the market. It took her six months to release her own single. This collaborative effort with the German rap group Rapsoul appeared in early October 2006 and hit the German charts. She parted ways with her management team N6 on October 26, 2006. In December 2008 Dedmon formed the formation RecAllstars with casting artists from pop stars , Germany is looking for the superstar, Star Search and Stefan is looking for the super grand prix star . In addition to the version sung by all participating artists, the download single Christmas Time contained 14 other versions, in which the song was also interpreted by each artist in their own way. For the album Merry Christmas! they contributed the song Please Come Home for Christmas . Since the end of 2010, Dedmon has been under contract with the British label Stagevisions. She then released the single Missing You Bad . The single It's Just a Lie followed in 2011, but it is only available as a download.