Johannes Oerding (born 26 December 1981) is a German singer-songwriter.

Early life

Oerding was born in

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and raised in

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near the border of the

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. His father is a

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, while his mother is a nurse. Oerding has two brothers and two sisters. Oerding was discovered in 1999, when he performed at a local

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. Later, he moved to the Netherlands to earn a diploma in International Marketing at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in

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. In 2006, he relocated to

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

to pursue a professional music career. There, he met singer-songwriter Michy Reincke, his neighbor at his new home in

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, who garnered Oerding his first gigs.

Career

In 2009, Oerding his released his first single "Die Tage werden anders sein" on

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. The same year, his debut album '' Erste Wahl'' was released. Oerding worked with producers Mark "Big" Smith and Sven "Chef" Bünger on the majority of the album. While it failed to chart upon its initial release, a reissue of ''Erste Wahl'', released in 2010, peaked at number 39 on the

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when its single "Engel" received heavy radio rotation. The following year, Oerding's second album '' Boxer'' was released. It debuted at number eleven in Germany. In 2013, '' Für immer ab jetzt'', Oerding's third studio album, was released. It became his first top ten album in Germany, debuting at number four, and was eventually certified gold by

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(BVMI). The album's first two singles, "Einfach nur weg" and "Nichts geht mehr", both entered the

German Singles Chart The GfK Entertainment charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindust ...

. In September 2013, Oerding represented Hamburg with "Nichts geht mehr" in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2013; he finished second in the contest. In 2015, Oerding released his fourth album '' Alles brennt''. It debuted at number three on the

, marking his highest-charting album yet. It was eventually certified gold by

(BVMI). In 2021, he was a coach on the eleventh season of '' The Voice of Germany'' and won along with his artist Sebastian Krenz.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles

References

External links

Official website
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