Xavier Naidoo

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Xavier Naidoo (2012)

Xavier Kurt Naidoo [ ˌzɛɪvɪɐ kʰʊɐ̯t naɪˈduː ] (born October 2, 1971 in Mannheim ) is a German soul and R&B singer, songwriter , composer and music producer . He co-founded the music group Söhne Mannheims , was a lecturer at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg and founder of the music labels Beats Around the Bush and Naidoo Records . Occasionally he was also active as an actor, audio book speaker, juror and television presenter.

His debut album Not from this world has sold over a million copies since 1998 and, like five other solo albums, reached number one in the German charts. His lyrics often address his conception of Christianity and apocalyptic scenarios.

Naidoo's political statements often sparked controversy. He publicly disseminates parts of the “Reich Citizens” ideology and conspiracy theories . Some of his lyrics are classified as homophobic , anti-Semitic , right-wing populist and racist . Naidoo has been denying the COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 , spreading the QAnon ideology in German-speaking countries and advocating other anti- science positions. He is considered to be the main representative of the "lateral thinkers".

Life

Naidoo was born in Mannheim in 1971 . His father Rausammy comes from South Africa and is half Indian , half German of origin. His mother, Eugene, is of South African and Irish descent. Naidoo grew up in the Wallstadt district and was raised Roman Catholic . He has dedicated a few songs to his hometown, also together with the band “ Söhne Mannheims ”, such as Meine Stadt and Wo ist mein Platz . For several years he has lived in Heidelberg, just under 20 kilometers away . Naidoo said that when he was in school, he was sometimes teased because of his dark skin , which meant that his childhood and adolescence were not always easy. In order to be able to defend himself better in an emergency, he learned kickboxing .

He made his first musical experiences in school and church choirs . He became a member of the Celebration Gospel Choir , with which he recorded a CD, and the regional band Just 4 Music . He obtained secondary school leaving certificate at the Feudenheim secondary school , began an apprenticeship as a cook, modeled for swimwear, was the doorman of the Mannheim breakbeat club Milk! and went to the USA , where he released his first solo album, Seeing Is Believing , under the stage name Kobra . 1995 and 1998 he was in the musicals Human Pacific and People of Richard Geppert over 100 times in Mannheim and Hockenheim as a leading actor on the stage.

In 1994 he appeared as a background singer in the “ Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt ” by Frankfurt producers Moses Pelham and Thomas Hofmann. There he was discovered by the3plabel and built up as a solo star. With Sabrina Setlur he recorded the single Freisein in 1997 and was known to a larger audience for the first time. However, the cooperation with "3p" ended in a dispute after Naidoo had published first productions with the "Sons of Mannheims"; In the opinion of "3p" this represented a "breach of contract". In the subsequent lawsuit, the Mannheim Regional Court finally ruled in favor of Naidoo. A constitutional complaint that was then submitted was not accepted for decision in 2005.

In 2000, Xavier Naidoo, who by then had several criminal records, was sentenced to a suspended sentence of one year and eight months for drug possession and repeated driving without a license. The payment of DM 100,000 and three drug tests were imposed on him as a condition of probation. The public prosecutor's office had asked for a prison sentence without parole.

In June 2005 Naidoo gave a concert with the “Sons of Mannheim” at the Tel Aviv Opera at the invitation of the German embassy . The song This path , released in November 2005, became the soccer hit of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. On July 9, 2006 Naidoo sang on the occasion of the greeting of the German national soccer team on the fan mile in Berlin. After the German national soccer team failed in the semifinals, he published the song Thank you .

In 2010, Naidoo supported the television program Tatort Internet ( RTL II ) with the theme song You deserve special protection . He married in early 2012; He has been the father of a son since 2013, which he made public in May 2015. According to his own statement, he became a vegetarian "thanks to a rapeseed from Kool Savas " . He is referring to a passage in the song The Best Day of My Life .

Solo career

1998–2001: Out of this world

Xavier Naidoo (2002)

In 1998 Naidoo released the album Not from this world and the single of the same name. Even on a Bravo - compiling the song was to be found, which made him known to a wider young audience. He organized live performances throughout Germany mostly himself and in collaboration with the 3p label. The concerts were far better attended than expected, and so by the end of the tour Naidoo had already sung in front of over 300,000 people. In 1999 a recording of the performances was published. In the same year he received the Echo as best national artist , the Comet as best national act and the MTV Europe Music Award as best German act . With over a million copies sold, the album Out of this World was Naidoo's greatest success in his solo career. The hymn-like title song She does not see me (music by Jean-Jacques Goldman ) for the cinema production Asterix and Obelix against Caesar earned him considerable airplay in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 1999 .

2002–2004: Interlude - Everything for the Lord

In 2002 his second solo album entitled Interlude - Everything for the Lord was released as a double album. It entered the album charts at number one in Germany and Austria. It reached third place in Switzerland. After the release of this album, he received several awards. For the second time after the MTV Europe Music Awards in 1999, he received the award for Best German Artist at the MTV Europe Music Awards . The actors Esther Schweins and Steffen Wink play the leading roles in the music videos for the album . Also in 2002, Naidoo was the voice actor for the protagonist and narrator Buscapé in the German version of the film City of God . The single I know nothing (which is as beautiful as you) from the album The World According to RZA with RZA reached first place in the charts in Germany in 2003 .

2005–2008: Telegram for X

In December 2005, he released his third solo album Telegram for X . The album went straight to number one on the LP charts, went platinum four times and has sold around 800,000 times to date. The album also conquered number one in the charts in Austria and Switzerland. This album success was initiated by the successful first single This path . The song climbed to number two in the German charts and stayed there for several weeks. He also reached the top ten in Austria and Switzerland. At the 2006 Echo Awards, Naidoo was honored as best national artist, among other things. The second single, Are you interested in life, reached number 27 in the German single charts. In June 2006, the song Linien aus Gold was published, followed in November 2006 by Was wir wir nicht die sich aus alone . In July 2006 Naidoo sang on the occasion of the greeting of the German national soccer team after the 2006 World Cup on the fan mile in Berlin . A short time later he published the title Thank You , in which he thanked the German national soccer team for their games and third place at the 2006 soccer World Cup. The song should initially only be published on the Internet. After the great enthusiasm for football, it was released as a single and climbed to number one in the German single charts, where it lasted a total of five weeks. In 2006 he received a gold record for over 150,000 singles sold. The title also reached the top ten in Austria and Switzerland. In December 2006 Naidoo was awarded the Radio Prize 1 Live Krone . In 2006 he was voted the best dressed man in Germany by the men 's magazine Men's Health . In 2007 he took a break with his solo projects. However, he was musically involved in some projects by other artists. In the same year he published the children's record Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofjew, which was published by the children's book publisher Wolff . In 2008 he appeared together with the sons of Mannheim in the MTV Unplugged series .

2009–2010: Everything can get better

In 2009 he toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the sons of Mannheim. Naidoo performed solo one evening, followed by a Söhne Mannheims concert the following evening. The Söhne Mannheims album Iz On , released in July 2009, was presented on the tour, and Xavier Naidoo's fourth solo album, Everything can get better, released in October 2009 . On this album, Naidoo addresses, among other things, conspiracy theories of September 11, 2001 in the piece Goldwaagen / Goldwagen . It says there: “9/11, London and Madrid , everyone knows that Al-Qaeda is just the CIA . World Trade Center No. 7. Why is there nothing left of the building ”. In March 2010 it received an echo. In June 2010 he visited the German armed forces in Afghanistan in Camp Marmal ( Mazar-e Sharif ) and in the Kunduz field camp and gave several concerts there to support the soldiers on site.

2011–2012: The Voice of Germany and Bundesvision Song Contest

Naidoo and the other coaches from The Voice , The BossHoss and Nena at the Golden Camera 2012

In 2011 and 2012 he was one of the jurors and coaches in the German singing casting show The Voice of Germany . In 2012 he entered the Bundesvision Song Contest with Kool Savas under the name Xavas for Baden-Württemberg ; the two won. Under the same name, he and Kool Savas produced an album entitled Split Personality . In the same year Naidoo released the song Eye Opener , which he wrote with producer Kris Menace for his album Features .

2013–2019: Further studio albums

In 2013 Naidoo released the album Beyond My Soul . From this the songs Bei Meine Seele , Der last Blick und Hört, Hört were decoupled as singles. In the same year he released the dubstep album Mordsmusik under the pseudonym "Der Xer", and a year later the second album Tanzmusik .

In April 2016, the album Not From This World 2 was released , on which he had worked for three years with his former mentor Moses Pelham. It is the sequel to his 1998 debut album, Out of This World , and became his ninth number one album. The first single Frei was able to stay in the German charts for a week. In the same year Andreas Gabalier invited him as a duet partner in the concert series MTV Unplugged . They sang together the title A opinion ham - stand behind it.

At the end of November 2017 he released the album Für dich , which reached number 3 in the German charts. With the single releases take me with you and for you . His eleventh studio album Hin und weg was released in July 2019 , with the single I thank all people , world , good times and grace .

Religious Influences

Naidoo claims to have had a personal conversion experience on New Year's Eve 1992 . He is convinced that he is living in the end times and believes in a Bible code that can foretell future events. He identifies his hometown Mannheim with the New Jerusalem . Naidoo uses religious motifs in his song lyrics and sees it as his calling to spread a Christian message. His second album Alles für den Herren focuses on his personal faith and contains “apocalyptic pop visions” as well as “relaxed reggae psalms”. Naidoo uses references to the content of the Old Testament , often associated with an expectation of the second coming of Christ or descriptions of an apocalypse that is already in progress .

Projects

In addition to his band, he was involved in Brothers Keepers , 4 Your Soul , Rilke Projekt , Rock gegen Rechts , Zeichen der Zeit and Fourtress , among others .

Controversy

Naidoo attracted attention several times through controversial statements that were described in the media as conspiracy-theoretical, populist, racist or right-wing politicians, among other things. As early as 1998, in a conversation with journalist Dirk Laabs , Naidoo questioned the legitimacy of the federal election.

In 1999 Naidoo said in an interview with Musikexpress that he was a racist , but "regardless of the color of his skin". In 2011, he unsuccessfully filed a criminal complaint for high treason against, in his opinion , those who were responsible for the financial crisis from 2007 , including the then Federal President Horst Köhler and members of the government.

In 2012, the Linksjugend Solid and the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany (LSVD) reported Naidoo and Kool Savas in connection with a song text from their album Gespaltene Personality for sedition and public incitement to criminal offenses . In the lyrics of Where Are They Now? , a hidden track , with lines of text like “Why don't you love a cunt when everyone is made of one?” and “I'll cut your arms and legs off / and then I'll fuck you in the ass, like you do makes the little one, “ would both have equated alleged satanic rituals , child abuse , pedophilia and homosexuality . Naidoo, on the other hand, told radio ffn that he wanted to draw attention to “terrible ritual murders of children, which actually happen a lot in Europe”. The Mannheim Public Prosecutor's Office did not initiate an investigation, as neither incitement to hatred nor a call to violence were discernible.

On various occasions, Naidoo said that Germany was not a free, but an occupied country, as the two-plus-four treaty was not a valid peace treaty. He was therefore accused of mixing " conspiracy theories , hostility to democracy, nationalism , anti-Americanism , anti-capitalism and whispers of peace into a dark soup" and of being "on the way with his mission", which is "in harmony with the ' Reichsbürgern '" "against Germany in its present Form and shape "judge. In response, Naidoo published the video The Truth and described himself as a "believer" and as a libertarian in the sense of Murray Rothbard . He was referring to the book The United States of Europe by the author Oliver Janich .

2014: Appearance at the Reich Citizens Movement

On the Day of German Unity 2014, October 3, Naidoo appeared in Berlin both at a vigil for peace , which social scientists like Dieter Rucht assigned to a possible cross-front movement in June 2014 , and at an event organized by the " Reich Citizens Movement ”. He described the representation of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in science and the media as "untrue". Naidoo explained that he spoke to the "people of the vigil and to the people who call themselves 'Reichsbürger' because they are all system critics like me". He wanted to reach out to people, including "Reichsbürger", including the NPD . Merkel could not choose whether to speak to the left or to anyone, and as Chancellor she had to speak to everyone. Mannheim's Lord Mayor Peter Kurz said that Naidoo represents “radically libertarian, anti-state positions with which we as a city cannot in any way identify”. He does not belong in the right spectrum, but serves certain patterns of the right-wing extremists. With regard to his claim to operate “criticism of the system”, he is accused of discrediting the term and spreading conspiracy theories under its guise.

In November 2014 Naidoo was awarded the ironic negative award Das Goldene Brett . In the justification, reference was made to its proximity to the Reich Citizens' Movement. This makes him "the gateway drug into a whole network of abstruse conspiracy theories."

2015: Canceled participation in the Eurovision Song Contest

On November 19, 2015, Norddeutsche Rundfunk announced that Naidoo would represent Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest . The audience should only vote on the song on February 18, 2016 - similar to Lena Meyer-Landrut's 2011 . The decision was heavily criticized in view of Naidoo's political statements, including in Süddeutscher Zeitung , Zeit , Spiegel and on social networks . 40 permanent editors of the NDR from the field of current affairs, culture and documentation also criticized the decision in a letter. On November 21, it was announced that Naidoo would not compete at the ESC after all. This decision sparked a renewed wave of criticism. Celebrity friends like Til Schweiger defended Xavier Naidoo against what they thought were unjustified allegations. The concert organizer Marek Lieberberg placed a solidarity display for Naidoo in the FAZ on the following Saturday, which was signed by 121 people and groups, including prominent artists and actors such as Mario Adorf , Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers , Jan Delay and Andreas Gabalier .

2015: Statements on the military operation in Syria

On December 3, 2015, the publicist Jürgen Todenhöfer published Naidoo's song Nie mehr Krieg as part of his protest against a German military operation in Syria . In it Naidoo sings, standing up for his convictions and not wanting to deny his belief. Something goes wrong "when we are no longer allowed to say that [ note:" No more war " ]". Muslims today wear “the new Star of David ” and are marginalized as terrorists. Arno Frank called this a "bizarre view" in a comment for Spiegel Online . In the publication of the “suggestive simplifications” by Todenhöfer, a “holy alliance of aluminum hat and Palestinian cloth ” appears. Michael Hanfeld criticized in the FAZ that Naidoo polarized "not because he has sharp provocations in store, but because he talks confused". In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Johannes Boie called Todenhöfer and Naidoo “dangerous world interpreters” and wrote: “With Todenhöfer and Naidoo, what belongs together grows together. [...] What does not fit into the worldview is explained with a conspiracy theory. ”Lieberberg also called the Star of David comparison“ as questionable as inaccurate and superfluous ”and criticized Naidoo's collaboration with Todenhöfer.

2017: Lied Marionetten

In April 2017, Xavier Naidoo published the song Marionetten with the sons of Mannheim . Its text was perceived in the press as anti-Semitic, right-wing populist and conspiracy theory . For the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) the song is a "hymn of the Reich Citizens' Movement". Der Spiegel wrote that we now know where Naidoo stands, "very deep in the angry citizens morass, namely, where fighting terms such as ' lying press ' and 'traitor' stink to destroy society". The city of Mannheim distanced itself from the music group after the album was released and stated that they expected an explanation for "the anti-state statements in the song lyrics". The satirist Jan Böhmermann published a parody of text and tape in May 2017.

After Naidoo was criticized again from April 2017 for the proximity of his texts to right-wing populists , conspiracy theorists and constitutional enemies and he was accused of calls for violence and vigilante justice, Radio Bremen announced that it would no longer broadcast concerts by Naidoo and his band in the future. Sky 1 , on the other hand, stuck to the program Xavier's request concert with him.

2020: Videos on refugees and climate change

After two video clips with vocal performances by Naidoo appeared in social networks, the TV broadcaster RTL temporarily parted ways with him on March 11, 2020 as a juror from Germany is looking for the superstar . In a press release from the broadcaster it said, among other things: "After the controversial statements by Xavier Naidoo in a self-made video that was shared on social networks today, RTL has decided to recruit the singer from the jury of 'Deutschland sucht den Superstar' excluded. ”Based on the statements in the controversial videos, he is“ not accused of xenophobia and racism for the first time ”. In the two videos that were made after the riots in Chemnitz in 2018 , he sang between the beginning and the closing line of text “You are lost”, for example “Your daughters, your children should suffer, should dress up with wolves in the sports hall / And you stand calmly next to it ”and“ Far and wide is no man here who can still save this country ”with reference to the refugee crisis in Germany in 2015/2016 and described the artist initiative“ We are more ”as“ embarrassing ”and“ anti-Germany ”.

The following day, the broadcaster ruled out Naidoo's return. In a statement by the managing director Jörg Graf it was said: “Our request to discuss and explain his statements in dialogue and live on RTL personally and publicly, he has so far left unanswered. We think this discussion is particularly important, because for us the statements in the video and his comments afterwards don't match at all. ”In this context, the British company Human Blood has filed a criminal complaint against Naidoo on suspicion of sedition under Section 130 of the German Criminal Code.

While Naidoo received approval from Jürgen Elsässer's ideological conspiracy magazine Compact (“one of the few heroes”) and right-wing extremists received Naidoo's lines of text positively on social media , Florian Reiter welcomed RTL's decision in Focus , but criticized the broadcaster for reacting too late because Naidoo's "closeness to [...] imperial bourgeoisie [...] [and] conspiracy theories" was "known for a long time". Artist friends and colleagues who were friends had also "remained silent for years about Naidoo's confused activities" or supported them. The journalist Dunja Hayali quoted lines from the anti-racism song “Last Warning” on Twitter , on which Naidoo had contributed around 20 years earlier, and wrote: “It's been a long time.” Dominik Göttker ( Funke Mediengruppe ) wrote that it was “ Division and hatred ”that Naidoo is promoting; he was "disqualified. Humanly and professionally. ”The rapper Smudo from Die Fantastischen Vier also supported the RTL measure and said that if someone was“ so resistant to advice and unreflected in promoting the usual conspiracy theories ”, he would make“ right-wing extremist statements popular even among the population ”. The band Söhne Mannheims distanced themselves from Naidoo on Facebook and wrote that they and Naidoo had "been going their separate ways for some time".

In another video, Naidoo presented himself as a climate crisis denier and hinted at an alleged conspiracy by the Fridays for Future movement. According to him, the Antichrist is behind the movement - recognizable by the three letters F of their abbreviation, which are in the sixth position in the alphabet and thus symbolize the number six hundred and sixty-six . At the same time he accused the climate researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and the astrophysicist Harald Lesch of lying and wants to have the truthfulness of their statements checked in court. He also stated that he would not scrap any of his cars because of what he believed to be the " climate hysteria ".

At the end of March 2020, another video became known in which Naidoo himself comments on the incidents after previously declining interviews and media inquiries. In an interview with Oliver Janich , the singer stated that he deliberately provoked the scandal and that the range as a juror at Deutschland sucht den Superstar used to promote his upcoming "patriotic" album. He also repeated his theses on the denial of man-made climate change in the video , openly expressed sympathy for the Reich Citizens' Movement and declared that he would not vote because he did not think it was right to “participate in the injustice by voting in this injustice system ".

Since 2020: Denial of the COVID-19 pandemic and QAnon video

In April 2020, Naidoo released a video denying the existence of the global COVID-19 pandemic . Among other things, he claimed that in Germany one had to "act as if there was a deadly pandemic", demanded evidence of the existence of the virus, refused to wear protective masks and announced that they would be suing the government over the requirement of protective masks.

A few weeks earlier he had put a video online in which he tearfully reproduced elements of the US-based QAnon conspiracy myth . He claimed, among other things, that "at these moments in different countries around the world children are being freed from the hands of pedophile networks". In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the spread of QAnon and other conspiracy myths in Germany had increased significantly. In the QAnon myth, as in similar myths circulating since the Middle Ages, it is claimed that Jews or “an elite” jointly committed serious crimes or conspired. Naidoo became a figurehead for right-wing populists and received a lot of support, including. by influencers from circles on the far right.

He called the former NPD cadre Rüdiger Hoffmann, convicted of attempted murder, a “real hero” with whom he wanted to work more intensively. Hoffmann is the spokesman for the stateless group observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Naidoo could also imagine working with rapper Chris Ares, who is classified by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a right-wing extremist . Naidoo said that he had renounced the entertainment industry and that his job was to "educate the people".

A short time later, Naidoo distanced himself from parts of the anti-fascist song Adriano in a video interview with the right-wing populist magazine Compact and questioned his involvement. Naidoo also emphasized in the interview that he was meanwhile also cautious with the claim at the time that the attack on Adriano came from right-wing circles , mentioned informers and claimed that, according to Europol , there was no right-wing violence in Germany .

In mid-May 2020, Naidoo said that there was a huge, widely ramified network of tunnels under Germany - one tunnel stretched as far as New York - and that there was a brutal battle between robots and clones there. Also in May 2020, Naidoo announced via its Telegram channel, among other things, that the earth was flat . He also said there were aliens . But these are not extraterrestrials, but " demons and fallen, whose origin is underground." There is also no space .

Various friends and companions distanced themselves from Naidoo in view of his videos and theses. So was Chefket known to want to do in the future, no more music more with him while Megaloh announced the artists from ancient common songs to be removed. The rapper Credibil deleted the joint track Wackelkontakt and released a new version without Naidoo. The planned joint album Gespaltene Demokratie 2 with Kool Savas is now on hold since the Xavier Naidoo scandal. For Kool Savas this is a "difficult and totally emotional thing", even if he tries to talk to Xavier Naidoo, "so that he understands what effect his words have".

Because of Naidoo's statements, his concert in Hof in August 2020 was canceled by the city administration. The Lord Mayor Eva Döhla declared: "The statements of the artist outside of his artistic engagement are controversial and from my point of view have become clearer". On the part of the organizers, there was understanding for this decision, which is therefore not legally challenged. Naidoo concerts have also been canceled in other cities.

At the initially forbidden demonstrations against the Corona protective measures in Berlin on August 29th, which resulted in violent clashes and public display of right-wing extremist symbolism in several cases , Naidoo also called out and insisted on the fact that participants were already using their cell phones during the Switch off the approach and pack it in aluminum foil or tin cans , since "[from] transmitter mast to transmitter mast [the signals are counted]". According to him, this would otherwise “record how many people are driving into the city” in order to be able to specifically block the corresponding motorway sections, which would deliberately prevent travelers from taking part.

After Attila Hildmann went into hiding in February 2021 during an ongoing investigation against him in Turkey, Naidoo wrote on his Telegram channel: “I am happy that he is safe, that he is comfortable. I still stand by him ”. He also wrote that Hildmann was "a lightning-smart entrepreneur".

In May 2021, two music videos by Naidoo and other musicians were released. The song Ich mach da nicht mit appeared under the project name Rapbellion with some hitherto rather unknown rappers from the right-wing camp. In this, conspiracy myths about the COVID-19 pandemic were spread and an armed fight against a supposed deep state was called for. Naidoo also called for a refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19 . In addition, the video shows a computer-animated bomb attack on an actually existing vaccination center in Bremen and physical violence against a fictitious security guard. The video also shows people with T-shirts from the "Coronarebellen Düsseldorf". The group was involved in the attempted assault on the Reichstag on August 29, 2020 . The video was blocked shortly afterwards on YouTube and has been uploaded again via various channels since then.

In addition, the song Heimat came under the project name The Conference, at which Hannes Ostendorf from the right-wing extremist band Category C can also be heard. In total, a little more than 15 people who came from the lateral thinkers, anti-vaccination and Reich citizens environment took part in the song. Among them are Ostendorf and Naidoo, for example, the conspiracy theorist Oliver Janich and the former AfD politician Heinrich Fiechtner . Of both songs, he is the quiet one and is designed as a kind of hymn to home. In terms of content, the song also addresses the refugee question, the vaccination problem and the measures against the Covid-19 pandemic in addition to the concept of home. Simone Meier described the song on Watson.ch as a kind of "sweet-pathetic mobilization of conservative forces".

Naidoo is listed as lyricist and composer for both songs. Together with him, the rapper Umut Karakaya ("Ukvali") and the conspiracy theorist Sebastian Verboketan are also involved as composers and lyricists. After the release of the two songs, votes against the musician's concerts planned for 2021 increased. In particular , there was resistance to the concert planned for October 9 in the SAP Arena in Mannheim.

In 2021 a duet with Hannes Ostendorf followed with Germany rolls up arms . The piece was published on YouTube and distributed through Telegram channels. The video shows members of right-wing extremist rocker and hooligan scenes from Bremen, Berlin and Essen. At the same time, a mini CD with four titles was released, which was sold on the Category C homepage. Another song on the CD features the so-called “Volkslehrer” Nikolai Nerling , a right-wing extremist video blogger.

Anti-Semitic allusions and statements

In October 2009 the song “Raus aus dem Reichstag” appeared on Naidoo's album “Everything can only get better” with the following lines:

“Like the guys from the Keinherzbank who gamble with our money.
You have been very, very angry and piss in your socks.
Baron Totschild sets the tone and he doesn't give a shit about you cocks.
The Schmock is a fox and you are just idiots. "

The expression "Baron Totschild" was understood as an attack on the Jewish Rothschild banking family .

In March 2015, the journalist Roland Sieber criticized these lines as "anti-Semitic jargon". He pointed out that neo-Nazis alluded to the Rothschild family with the expression "Baron Totschild" and that anti-Semites spread Naidoo's song in their networks, for example on the TruTube video portal . Naidoo and other vigil speakers from 2014 insinuated, like the early Nazis, that Jews were behind the Federal Reserve System (FED) and blamed them “in a conspiratorial ideological way for all the social grievances and war in the world”. Naidoo has been celebrated in the Reich citizen scene since 2011 for his thesis that Germany was an occupied country. It is dangerous that he is spreading German nationalist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theses in front of an audience of millions. The "Reichsbewegung - Neue Gemeinschaft von Philosophen" had underlined a propaganda video with a song by the "Sons of Mannheim" after sending threatening letters to Jewish and Muslim organizations. Some Naidoo fans from the Pegida and Reich citizens spectrum called for a storm on the Reichstag on May 8, 2015 in order to proclaim a transitional government there.

The Amadeu Antonio Foundation published Sieber's criticism on the portal Netz gegen Nazis . Naidoo then applied to the Mannheim Regional Court for an injunction against Sieber and the foundation. In August 2015 she agreed to a settlement, undertook not to label Xavier Naidoo as an anti-Semite, and removed Sieber's article from her portal. But she noted that those lines from Naidoo's song from 2009 "could be interpreted as anti-Semitic".

After Naidoo's appearance at the Bluetone Festival in Straubing in July 2017 , a speaker from the foundation gave a lecture there on the Reich citizenship scene and, in response to an audience request, said about Naidoo: “I would count him among the sovereignists, with one leg up among the Reich citizens. He's an anti-Semite, I think I'm allowed to say that, but not so openly because he likes to sue. But that is structurally verifiable. ”Naidoo again applied for an injunction, which the speaker contradicted. In the main hearing before the Regional Court of Regensburg , she explained the “conspiracy ideological declaration of the world” of the Reich citizens' scene, according to which “the fate of the world lies in the hands of a small group of powerful people”. Naidoo propagates this pattern with his statements about the allegedly occupied Germany and also in his song "Marionetten". The allusion “dead shield” and the Yiddish swear word “Schmock” are conscious codes and images with which anti-Semitic clichés are served. However, that is their personal opinion, because there is no generally applicable definition for the term "anti-Semite". Naidoo was actually not the subject of her lecture; she only said what she thought of him when asked. Naidoo replied that he had never "actively defamed people of Semitic origin" and that he had many friends of the Jewish faith. His son has a Hebrew first name. His concert organizer is also of Jewish faith. He himself stands for "peace and love", is committed to social projects and against racism. With the expression “dead shield” he wanted to specifically criticize the entry of the former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder into the “Rothschild Bank”. With the line of text he spontaneously expressed a general banking criticism related to the 2008 banking crisis . Codes and ciphers are not known to him. If a bank belongs to the Rothschilds, then he could say that too. He wanted to address this family so "that they understand." He meant the swear word "Schmock" rather funny and sometimes calls friends that too. The song “Marionetten” was about lobbying and politicians “who feel less committed to the people than to those who whisper to them”. When writing the song, he was not aware that the comparison with puppeteers and marionettes could also be linked to anti-Semitic clichés.

On July 17, 2018, judge Barbara Pöschl ruled that the speaker should no longer call Naidoo an "anti-Semite" and should not repeat this expression of opinion. Because the term has a very negative connotation in Germany and represents “a considerable encroachment on personal rights ”. The defendants' reasons were not convincing, but Naidoo explained his passages conclusively. As a singer, he does not always express himself “objectively and soberly”. In the process he credibly “distanced himself from the use of anti-Semitic code words in the context of the two songs”. A clear determination of a certain interpretation is not possible because of the artistic freedom . The court did not have to judge whether his texts were anti-Semitic or not. But that Naidoo is an anti-Semite in his whole person is not proven. - The speaker announced her appeal and viewed the verdict as “a fatal signal for political education.” Former President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Charlotte Knobloch criticized the verdict as incomprehensible: “Hate is not an opinion, and the use of a decoded language which can easily be understood as anti-Semitic, poisons our language and our society.

The Nuremberg Higher Regional Court confirmed the judgment of the first instance in October 2019 because it placed the pillory effect of the term "anti-Semite" higher than the right to freedom of expression.

From 2020 onwards, Naidoo became increasingly radicalized. In another right-wing video, he alleged that his father “worked in Jewish gold mines” and was mistreated in the process. But he himself “never developed hatred of Jews”. Not "the Jews" are "the evil of mankind", but "the Jesuits ". In addition, Naidoo showed solidarity with the cook Attila Hildmann , who for his part had come out with conspiracy theories and hatred of Jews.

In 2021, Naidoo shared a video on its Telegram channel stating that the Holocaust was a "successful historical fiction", thus spreading a Holocaust denial . He also shared the anti-Semitic inflammatory pamphlet Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Alfred Rosenberg's summary and referred to it as one of the "most important documents in human history". He claimed that in 1933 " World Jewry " declared war on Germany. This conspiracy thesis is considered indirect Holocaust denial. He demanded that the German Empire including its colonies be restored. He was offensive about the Talmud and declared that all fair-skinned Jews and all Jews living in Israel were deceivers because the true holy land is in South Africa and Jerusalem is in the Kalahari . The Black Lives Matter movement is "absolutely despicable". Naidoo called the Central Council of Jews in Germany the "Central Council of Lies". The people working there are not really Jews at all: "If you are Jews, I am a Korean". He described "lies, high treason, bribery and extortion" as the "way and way of life of the Jews" and posted sentences like "I can no longer believe the so-called Jews" or "Quite a lot of Jews involved in this child molester filth". He shared a post claiming Jews were using lethal injection to murder non-Jews in the pandemic.

After a constitutional complaint , the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) overturned the two court rulings on December 22, 2021, which had forbidden the speaker to call Naidoo an anti-Semite. Her 2017 expression was legitimate; the lower courts had insufficiently considered the importance of freedom of expression in the public opinion struggle. The BVerfG referred the matter back to the Regional Court of Regensburg for renewed negotiation and a decision. In a comment on this, the journalist Sebastian Leber referred to other anti-Semitic statements by Naidoo on his Telegram channel and said that Naidoo was undoubtedly an anti-Semite. This designation was only initially banned because he had not yet expressed his views as “shamelessly” in 2017 as they are today. The Regensburg court had no idea "how openly Xavier Naidoo would later rush to Telegram". He himself has now created the legal certainty to be allowed to call him an anti-Semite.

reception

According to the ZDF history episode Germany, your pop music (2012), Naidoo stands for “charity, tolerance and integration - that is the central message of the soul singer, whose father comes from Sri Lanka.” The VOX documentary Die Xavier-Naidoo -Story 2016 attested Naidoo that he had "repeatedly [...] campaigned for peace and against the division of society". Controversies about his statements and actions were not discussed in the film. Stefan Niggemeier saw the reason for this in the broadcaster's interest in the further marketability of Naidoo, which would be impaired by a realistic representation of his positions. The documentary filmmaker Harold Woetzel , who is responsible for the content of the VOX broadcast , then referred to the criticism of Niggemeiers in a detailed article on kress.de and spoke in this context of a "completely mad media hate campaign and an obvious opinion journalism against a dark-skinned Mannheim singer", what fellow musicians and celebrity friends also complained.

In November 2012, Naidoo was described as a “ Christian fundamentalist ” by Marcus Staiger , the former record manager of Royal Bunker and former editor-in-chief of Rap.de. The entire work of Naidoo pervades the homage to “a certain Highlander romanticism, [a] folk heroism in which one constantly stands up, one rises, a messianic figure of light, the one chosen by providence, who carries the masses away and into leads the battle and in the end destroys the dark ”. Also in November 2012, Thomas Steiner accused Naidoo in an editorial in the Badische Zeitung that “spreading crude conspiracy theories” was “not enlightenment, but dumbing down”, and “stirring up primitive resentment against elected representatives” was “not a provocation, but contempt”.

The rapper Alligatoah parodied Naidoo's commitment to Tatort Internet in the song Denk an die Kinder , published at the end of 2015 . The song appeared on the album Music is not a solution . In the accompanying music video he is imitated by the rapper alongside other celebrities in the role of a charity singer.

Awards

Handprints on the Munich Olympic Walk of Stars

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1994 Seeing Is Believing
DUR Music / Megaphon Music
- - -
First published: September 27, 1994 (USA)
New edition: May 2003 (DEU)
1998 Out of this world
3p
DE1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(101 weeks)DE
AT5
platinum
platinum

(37 weeks)AT
CH12th
platinum
platinum

(60 weeks)CH
First published: May 30, 1998
Sales: + 1,100,000
2002 Interlude - everything for the gentleman
Naidoo Records
DE1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(86 weeks)DE
AT1
platinum
platinum

(92 weeks)AT
CH3
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(56 weeks)CH
First published: March 25, 2002
Sales: + 800,000
2005 Telegram for X
Naidoo Records
DE1
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum

(77 weeks)DE
AT1 (60 weeks)
AT
CH1
Triple gold
× 3
Triple gold

(63 weeks)CH
First published: November 25, 2005
Sales: + 860,000
2009 Everything can get better
Naidoo Records
DE1
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum

(103 weeks)DE
AT3 (31 weeks)
AT
CH2
gold
gold

(42 weeks)CH
First published: October 9, 2009
Sales: + 415,000
2013 Great music
Naidoo Records
DE62 (1 week)
DE
AT44 (2 weeks)
AT
-
First published: March 8, 2013
as Der Xer
By my soul
Naidoo Records
DE1
platinum
platinum

(36 weeks)DE
AT1
gold
gold

(27 weeks)AT
CH3 (21 weeks)
CH
First published: May 31, 2013
Sales: + 207,500
2014 Dance music (Xavier no longer lives here)
Naidoo Records
- - -
First published: December 12, 2014
as Der Xer
2016 Out of this world 2
Naidoo Records
DE1
gold
gold

(24 weeks)DE
AT1 (15 weeks)
AT
CH1 (19 weeks)
CH
First published: April 1, 2016
Sales: + 100,000
2017 To you.
Naidoo Records
DE3 (10 weeks)
DE
AT6 (5 weeks)
AT
CH5 (12 weeks)
CH
First published: November 24, 2017
2019 There and away
Naidoo Records
DE3 (11 weeks)
DE
AT8 (5 weeks)
AT
CH4 (10 weeks)
CH
First published: July 19, 2019

Filmography

cinemamovies

  • 2001: Put through its paces
  • 2002: City of God (voice actor)

Audio books

  • 2012: Revelation 23 - The truth is immortal (speaker + role)

Television films

TV Shows

  • 2011: Sesame Street presents: Ernie & Bert Songs , KiKA

Television shows

Documentation

  • 2006: Mannheim School - How pop music really comes into being: Version 1.0
  • 2007: Yes, I am!
  • 2013: Traumwärts - Where does your path lead (speaker)
  • 2013: Germany Your artists: Xavier Naidoo (ARD, 45 minutes)
  • 2015: Xavier Naidoo: This Way (SWR, 90 minutes)
  • 2015: By my soul - 20 years of Xavier Naidoo (VOX, 211 minutes)
  • 2020: Absolut Xavier Naidoo (RTL)

Musicals

Publications

  • 2005: Sing Your Hits (Lyrics)
  • 2007: X. Naidoo Das Beste für Piano (music book)
  • 2012: XAVAS Album (music book)

literature

  • Matthias Lemme: The new psalm singers. Religiousness in German-language pop music (=  popular culture and theology , vol. 3). IKS Garamond, Jena 2009, ISBN 978-3-938203-72-9 .
  • Ulrike Slezak: Religious Education. Biographical studies in the horizon of the step theory according to Oser / Gmünder and consequences for religious education. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89958-395-3 , pp. 71–77, 109–111, 137 (also dissertation, University of Kassel 2008).
  • Ute Fink: Rock, Pop - Amen ?! Christian faith and contemporary music (=  Internationale Hochschulschriften , Vol. 466). Waxmann, Münster and others 2006, ISBN 3-8309-1660-4 , pp. 44, 56–72 (also dissertation, University of Cologne 2005).
  • Michael Fuchs-Gamböck, Jörg-Peter Klotz: Xavier Naidoo. His ways. Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-45317-8 .
  • Michael Ganster: Christian spiritual content in contemporary pop music using the example of Xavier Naidoos and their reception among young people (=  MenschenArbeit. Freiburg studies , vol. 17). 1st edition. Hartung-Gorre, Konstanz 2003, ISBN 3-89649-843-6 (also diploma thesis, University of Mainz 2001/02).

Web links

Commons : Xavier Naidoo  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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  75. Dominik Göttker: DSDS: RTL has to cancel the program IMMEDIATELY - for this reason, www.derwesten.de, March 16, 2020
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  118. Despite hate speech without end: Xavier Naidoo is supposed to perform in Berlin. Queer.de, June 16, 2021
  119. Sebastian Leber: Anti-Semitism on the Net: Attila Hildmann blames Jews - and defends Hitler. Tagesspiegel, June 19, 2020
  120. Bernd Wolf: Federal Constitutional Court: Naidoo was allowed to be called an anti-Semite. Tagesschau.de, December 22, 2021
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