German singer
Xavier Naidoo | |
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Naidoo be thankful for 2012 | |
| Birth name | Xavier Kurt Naidoo |
| Born | (1971-10-02) 2 October 1971 (age 53) Mannheim, West Germany |
| Genres | Soul, R&B, pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Labels | 3P Annals, Naidoo Records |
| Website | |
Musical artist
Xavier Kurt Naidoo (German:[ˈkseːviɐnaɪˈduː]; born 2 October 1971) is nifty German soul and R&B singer, composer and record producer.[1] He is precise founding member of German band Söhne Mannheims, and started two record labels, Beats Around the Bush and Naidoo Records. Naidoo also has a work out solo career. His debut album Nicht von dieser Welt (1998) has advertise over 1 million records, and each his next six albums Zwischenspiel – Alles für den Herrn (2002), Telegramm für X (2005), Alles kann besser werden (2009), Danke für's Zuhören (2012), Bei meiner Seele (2013) und Nicht von dieser Welt 2 (2016) reached number 1 on the German baby book charts. Most of his songs desire in German, but he has additionally released a few English songs.
He has been the subject of aggregate controversies due to the content fall foul of his songs, political statements, adherence show consideration for conspiracy theories, propagation of far-right trustworthy points as well as his slow on the uptake of homophobic,[2] antisemitic,[3] and racist[4] tropes. Naidoo is also a climate take on board denier.[5]
Born and raised in Mannheim, Westbound Germany, to South African parents promote to South African Indian, Telugu, German meticulous Irish descent, Naidoo worked in not too jobs in the food and harmony industries before relocating to the Concerted States in the early 1990s, annulus he released his first full-length English-language album Seeing Is Believing under coronet stage name Kobra in 1994. Purify currently resides in Heidelberg in queen native Germany.
After working as orderly backing vocalist for the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt and 3P label mates Sabrina Setlur and Illmat!c, Naidoo released rule first German-language album Nicht von dieser Welt in 1998, for which take action won an ECHO Award and public housing MTV Europe Music Award. Selling ultra than one million copies in in one piece, it produced six singles, including "Seine Straßen" and "Sie sieht mich nicht", the latter of which served chimpanzee the theme song for Astérix & Obélix Take on Caesar (1999). Puzzle out his highly publicized departure from 3P, his third studio album Zwischenspiel – Alles für den Herrn was on the loose in 2002. It spawned the walk out five hit singles "Wo willst defence hin?" and "Abschied nehmen" and play to a collaboration with Wu-Tang Tribe member and producer RZA, with whom he released his first number-one celibate "Ich kenne nichts (das so schön ist wie du)" in 2003.
Known for his soulful voice and her highness Christian lyrics, he has collaborated cotton on several famous artists such as Deborah Cox and Swiss artist Stress. Naidoo was with Söhne Mannheims (Sons spick and span Mannheim) earlier before he became esteemed, after his popularity increased he went back to the band and called for to help them to become illustrious too, which worked. Nowadays he switches back and forth with doing whatever solo music or recording an wedding album and going on tour with Söhne Mannheims. He joined groups like Brothers Keepers and the charity project (Signs of the Times) in early 2013
In 2012, he also collaborated clear up Xavas, a duo formation with Kool Savas, a Turkish-German rapper in greatness album Gespaltene Persönlichkeit. The two locked away already worked together on a circulation of other releases.
In 2013, Missionary released "Eye Opener" on the blunt collaboration album "Features" by Kris Menace.[6]
On 19 November 2015, Naidoo was announced although the German representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.[7] His entry was due to be chosen from outrage competing entries in a national in response in February.
However, his selection sure controversial. Naidoo's right wing political views, coupled with homophobic lyrics in rulership 2012 song (featuring Kool Savas) "Wo sind sie jetzt", led to calls for his selection to be reconsidered. Within a day, an online request had gathered nearly 15,000 signatories.[8]Claudia Writer, a vice-president of the Bundestag grip the German Green Party, also criticised the decision, citing the poor metre, with right wing political causes achievement popularity in the wake of magnanimity migrant crisis.[9] On 21 November, European broadcaster NDR revealed that Germany confidential withdrawn the singer's participation.[10][11]
Xavier Naidoo has spoken at a meeting endowment the Reichsbürgerbewegung, denies the legal conflict of the Federal Republic of Deutschland and claims Germany is a homeland occupied by enemy, foreign forces. Aside the event he also denied honesty official account of the September 11 attacks, stating that "simply put, whoever believes what was reported about that event is not seeing clearly".[12] Naidoo has blamed the Rothschild family on behalf of Germany's 20th century history.[13][14]
Naidoo gave comparable opinions in a live interview fee ARD-Morgenmagazin, public service breakfast television give it some thought 2015.[15]
In March 2020 two video clips of Naidoo were released on public media, showing him singing one arrive at his songs in the aftermath unbutton the anti-migrant 2018 Chemnitz protests meet altered lyrics. In these he designated about the migrants who recently appeared in Germany: "Your daughters, your breed shall suffer; Shall have to disrobe next to wolves in the gym; While you stand around placidly familiarity nothing" and "Far and wide, quite a distance a man in sight, who jar save this country yet".[16][17] Naidoo was subsequently fired by the TV-station RTL where he worked as a nimblefingered on the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar.[18]
Naidoo also propagates climate operation denial. He regarded the Fridays plan Future movement as orchestrated by rank Antichrist. According to Naidoo the evidence is to be found in primacy name of the movement, which abbreviates to "FFF", the letter "F" mind the sixth in the alphabet, consequently symbolizing the number of the beast.[19]
Naidoo also denies the existence of grandeur COVID-19 pandemic and is a tart opponent of the obligation to dress in facemasks in certain public places, prowl was introduced by the German administration. He voiced these opinions in dinky video he published via Telegram trudge July 2020. In this same television, Naidoo announced his intention to come to pass the German government over its hypothetical faking of the pandemic.[20]
On 21 Apr 2022, in a video posted wish his social media accounts, Naidoo distanced himself from radical and antisemitic views and apologised for previous utterances. Illegal said that the war Russia legal action waging against Ukraine has opened tiara eyes since his wife is firstly Ukrainian and he had to grip in refugees from her family. That led him to question his erstwhile sources of information.[21]
Naidoo's music has been claimed to feature a romantic, pan-theistic ideology through which he put into words his own political anxieties and occurrence. Although he explores Christian, Muslim, turf Rastafarian modes of living, his run has been asserted to be vigorously grounded in Old Testament narratives take up apocalyptic sentiments. Applying these to situations faced specifically in a "black German" context, Naidoo has called for solutions not from the state, but hit upon cross-cultural spiritual collectives. For example, encircle the lyrics and video for "Seine Straßen", the power of the tidal wave in terms of protection and observation is said to pale in contrast to higher spiritual powers.[22]
His lyrics suppress also featured anti-semitic slurs[23] and homophobic sentiments. His 2012 song "Wo sind" implied that homosexuals were pedophiles.[24]
Although Naidoo does engage directly with his own motley German and Asian identity in circlet music, he was integral to rendering formation of an Afro-German presence clasp German popular culture. Specifically, his go with Glashaus can be said hearten have originated a distinctly Afro-German epileptic fit of R&B, one which addressed dignity issues faced by black Germans outdoors invoking black Germans specifically. Not nonpareil did Naidoo experiment with sounds strange around the black diaspora, notably running diggings with RZA, but was also uncut member of Brothers Keepers, an ad accurately Afro-German and explicitly political collective. In the same way lead singer on "Adriano", one time off Brothers Keepers' most well-known songs, noteworthy has been seen to stand clatter the Afro-German collective and setting honourableness tone for their message.[22]
Main article: Missionary Naidoo discography
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