Wincent Weiss

Wincent Weiss (2017)

Wincent Weiss (born January 21, 1993 in Bad Oldesloe ) is a German pop singer and songwriter .

career

2013–2017: the beginning of a career and something against the silence

In 2013 Weiss took part in the tenth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS), was among the last 29 candidates, but then dropped out. He then became known for a cover version of the song Unter Meine Haut by Elif Demirezer after he recorded an acoustic version on the piano and uploaded it to YouTube . About two years later the DJs Gestört but GeiL and Koby Funk played a remix of the song at a festival. In July 2015, this remix was sixth in the German single charts . The single was able to stay in the German charts for over a year and was awarded three gold records .

On September 11, 2015, he released his first solo single Regenbogen and on April 11, 2016, the platinum-single Musik followed as the first release from his debut album. In 2017 he also reached the German single charts with fireworks . For this, too, he received a gold record. On April 14, 2017 his first album Irgendwas gegen die Stille was released , which reached number three in the German album charts and was awarded platinum with 200,000 units sold . In May 2017 he was part of the German ESC jury in Kiev . The author's participation in the song Lieb mich then by Helene Fischer also appeared in the same month. On August 11th, the third and final single from his first album was released, Fresh Air . An acoustic version of his first album was released on October 27, 2017. He also released the two previously unreleased songs 365 days and not wake me up , which he had previously only played live, on a deluxe version of the album . In November 2017 he started a tour with 24 concerts. In the same month he won the award for the best German artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2017 .

Since 2018: Somehow different and sing my song

In March 2018 he was nominated for the Echo in the categories Artist Pop National and Newcomer National and on April 12, 2018 he was awarded the latter in the category Newcomer National . On the same day he released the single An Wunder , which entered the German single charts at number 18 and reached number 12 as its maximum placement. On November 2, 2018, Another single from his second studio album Irgendwie anders , which was released on March 29, 2019, was released with Hier mit dir . Before that, the songs Plans and Hardly anticipate were released as the third and fourth single. In the 2018 film Tabaluga , he dubbed the title character. Weiss was a participant in the sixth season of Sing my Song - The Exchange Concert .

The single once in a lifetime was released on September 20, 2019 and the single Kein Lied on December 6, 2019 .

On June 20, 2020, he gave the first indoor concert since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne .

Discography

→ Main article : Wincent Weiss / Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2017	Something against the silence Vertigo Berlin	DE3 platinum (83 weeks)DE	AT14 (6 weeks) AT	CH4th platinum (37 weeks)CH	First published: April 14, 2017 Sales: + 220,000
2019	Somehow different from Vertigo Berlin	DE2 gold (55 weeks)DE	AT8 (10 weeks) AT	CH2 (25 weeks) CH	First published: March 29, 2019 Sales: + 100,000

Filmography

• 2018: Tabaluga - The Film (Tabaluga: Language and Song)

Awards

• 2017 MTV Europe Music Award in the Best German Act category
• 2018 Echo in the Newcomer National category
• 2019 Golden Hen in the Music category
• 2019 Golden Camera Digital Award in the Best Music Act category
• 2019 Bravo Otto in Gold in the National Singer category

Web links

Commons : Wincent Weiss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wincent Weiss website
• Biography at Universal Music
• Wincent Weiss at Discogs (English)

swell

1. ↑ ProSieben: Profile of Wincent Weiss. Retrieved April 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Wincent Weiss - From the bedroom to the charts. ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Red-Carpet.de , June 12, 2015, accessed on August 10, 2015.
3. ↑ Gold / platinum database Federal Association of the Music Industry. In: musikindustrie.de , accessed on April 14, 2019.
4. ↑ ESC 2017 From Nicole to Wincent Weiss: This is the German jury for Kiev. In: Express.de
5. ↑ 2017 MTV EMA: These are the winners. In: mtv.de
6. ↑ Claudia Heindrichs: Wincent Weiss: A firework of feelings. November 13, 2019, accessed on April 26, 2020 (German): "Among other things, Wincent Weiss won an MTV Europe Music Award in 2017 and was awarded the Echo in the Newcomer National category one year later." 
7. ↑ Official German Charts - Official German Charts. Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Official German Charts - Official German Charts. Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Dancing behind Plexiglas at Wincent Weiss. (Video) Brisant, June 21, 2020, archived from the original on June 25, 2020 ; accessed on August 22, 2020 .