Clueso
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Clueso (pronounced [klyˈzo]; born April 9, 1980 as Thomas Hübner in Erfurt) is a German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer.
Clueso, named after Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther, started making music in 1995. In 1998 he got to know his future manager Andreas Welskop and canceled his apprenticeship training in hairdressing. His first vinyl Clüsolo was released on BMG Ufa the same year. In 1999 he moved to the 10vor10-Studios in Köln with Welskop. A year later he signed a label contract at Four Music and released Text und Ton in 2001. Around that time he performed with Curfew at the MTV HipHop Open in Stuttgart and at Beats for Life in Köln.
In 2002, Clueso moved back to Erfurt and recorded the Rowdy-Club-Tape 2002. One year later, he started producing his second album Gute Musik, which translates to "good music"(featuring Blumentopf, Steer M, Tilmann Jarmer, Delhia, Tim Neuhaus and Jürgen Kerth), which will be finished by 2004. It does not contain any English tracks and concentrates on singing rather than rapping. In 2005, Clueso represented Thuringia with the song Kein Bock zu geh'n at the Bundesvision Song Contest. The same year he was the partner of Start Ab, the 'biggest non-commercial remix contest in Europe'. Three years later, he once again represented Thuringia in the Bundesvision Song Contest with his latest single, Keinen Zentimeter and finished second to Brandenburg.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles / maxis
- 2000 - The Disk feat. Metaphysics
- 2000 - Spiel da nich mit ("Don't play along with it")
- 2001 - Sag mir wo ("Tell me where")
- 2003 - Extended Player EP
- 2004 - Wart' mal ("Just wait")
- 2005 - Kein Bock zu geh'n (#65 German Top 100) ("Don't wanna go")
- 2005 - Pizzaschachteln ("Pizza boxes")
- 2005 - Komm schlaf bei mir ("Clueso Singt Rio Reiser") ("Come, sleep here with me")
- 2006 - Chicago (#60 German Top 100)
- 2006 - Out Of Space
- 2007 - Chicago (Live)
- 2007 - Lala (For the movie Leroy)
- 2008 - Keinen Zentimeter (#15 German Top 100) ("No Centimetre")
- 2008 - Mitnehm' ("Take along")
[edit] Albums
- 2001 - Text und Ton ("Lyrics and Sound")
- 2004 - Gute Musik (#53 German Top 100) ("Good music")
- 2006 - Weit Weg (#12 German Top 100) ("´Far away")
- 2008 - So Sehr Dabei ("So much to")
[edit] Band
- Norman Bates - backup vocals
- Christoph Bernewitz - lead guitar
- Daniel Bätge - bass guitar
- Philipp Milner - piano
- Paul Tetzlaff - drums
- DJ Malik - turntables
- Christian Kohlhaas - trombone
[edit] Tour dates
- 01.06.-14.06.2004 - Gute Musik / Rücken zur Wand Tour with Franky Kubrick
- 19.11.-16.12.2004 - supporting Die Fantastischen Vier on Viel unterwegs Tour
- 13.05.-02.10.2005 - Clueso & Band / summer tour 2005
