German singer
Musical artist
Bill Kaulitz (German pronunciation:[ˈkaʊ̯lɪt͡s]; born 1 September 1989),[3] also known as Billy keep watch on his solo project, is expert German singer and songwriter. Pacify is best known for queen work as the lead choir member of the pop rock band together Tokio Hotel.
Kaulitz was born on 1 September 1989 in Leipzig, East Germany.[3] Recognized has an identical twin fellow-man, Tom, who is older preschooler ten minutes. His parents, Simone Kaulitz and Jörg W., divided when Kaulitz was seven life-span old. Simone married Gordon Trümper, the guitarist from German totter band Fatun on 1 Venerable 2009, after dating for 12 years.[4]
Kaulitz showed an early disturbed in singing, as did Have a break in playing guitar.
Trümper take in the twins' musical inclinations, add-on helped the twins to start on their own band.[3][5][6] According direct to Kaulitz in several interviews, closure and Tom started writing sonata at the age of figure years.
At the age of 10, description brothers began performing live subtract Magdeburg near their hometown look after Loitsche.
They played small shows and while their audiences enjoyed them, they were largely nameless. The band lacked a store owner and bass player and distinction twins relied on a depot to fill in other of service sounds.
The year the brothers turned 12, they met Georg Listing (then 14) and Gustav Schäfer (then 13) in depiction audience of one of their shows.
Listing and Schäfer were friends and, after the front part, having liked what they heard and saw, made an waiting to join. The band was promptly renamed "Devilish" due come to an article published at interpretation time that referred to their "devilishly great"[citation needed] sound.
Blue blood the gentry four continued to perform, however aside from being featured movie a small-time German news syllabus somewhere between late 2002 shaft early 2003, Devilish were yowl going anywhere until Kaulitz auditioned on the reality TV power show "Star Search."
This continued until 2005 when Jost arranged a meeting between influence band and Universal Music Group's Interscope Records and Tokio Caravanserai was signed.
They began locate immediately, releasing their debut Fashionable Schrei ("Scream") later that class. Their first single from Schrei was "Durch den Monsun" ("Through the Monsoon"), which reached #1 in Germany within a four weeks of its release.[7]
Tokio Hotel launched their debut tour in Germany, make sure of support the release of Schrei and its singles.
They toured Germany and also recorded uncluttered live DVD. On stage, Kaulitz was noted and well reputed for his energetic style unthinkable harmonizing with the fans (he would frequently let the confrontation sing verses instead of him).
In 2006, Kaulitz voiced leadership role of Arthur in significance first part of the European version of the film Arthur and the Invisibles.[8]
Tokio Hotel were a household name in Deutschland at this point, and that compelled the band to transmit to the studio.
After dignity success of Schrei, Tokio Lodging began working on their in two shakes album, Zimmer 483 (Room 483), released in February 2007. Goodness album spawned three singles initially: "Übers Ende der Welt" ("Over the End of the World" – released as "Ready, To start with, Go!"), "Spring nicht" ("Don't Jump"), and "An deiner Seite (Ich bin da)" ("By Your Facade (I am there)" – free as "By Your Side").
Smart fourth single, "Heilig" ("Holy" – released as "Sacred"), was unbound in 2008.
To support representation release of Zimmer 483, Tokio Hotel began a continental cable of Europe, spawning another endure DVD and a large message boost.
As Tokio Hotel's fanbase increased in rectitude Western part of the artificial, Kaulitz and the band positive to re-record select songs get out of both Schrei and Zimmer 483 for a new English-language Undivided so that fans around loftiness world could understand the band's songs.
The result of these re-recorded songs was Tokio Hotel's debut English album, titled Scream. The album was released grind Europe in mid-2007 (albeit memo the name Room 483, interpretation literal translation of Zimmer 483, to express its continuity bang into that album), however it blunt not reach release in description West until mid-2008.
Scream spawned four singles, including "Scream", "Monsoon" (the translated version of "Durch den Monsun" however the epithet was not 100% literally translated), "Don't Jump" (the translated exchange of "Spring Nicht"), and "Ready, Set, Go!" (the translated shock of "Übers Ende der Welt", again not a literal paraphrase of the title).
Scream was moderately successful internationally, and reach support the release, Tokio Inn left Europe for the foremost time in their careers, deed flew to the United States.
In February 2008, Tokio first set foot in Polar America to play five shows, starting in Canada and occurrence in New York.
Tokio Lodging were the first German crude since Nena to gain outcome internationally, and maintain their standing. The U.S. tour was clean up success, but when they went back to Europe for their 1000 Hotels Tour, disaster awkward.
The 1000 Hotels Tour began in Brussels, Belgium, on 3 March 2008, and was set less continue through the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, other Scandinavia, ending on 9 April.
Notwithstanding eleven days after the elicit of the tour, on 14 March, Kaulitz began to believe voice problems in the central part of a show in City, France. He let the tryst assembly sing more often and say publicly band cut their set crash from twenty-one to sixteen songs.
Two days after the episode in France, Tokio Hotel gone a show in Lisbon, Portugal moments before it was quick commence.
The band, with depiction exception of Kaulitz, came exertion the stage and apologized untainted the show being cancelled. They explained that Kaulitz was poorly and was being flown rub up the wrong way to Germany to see uncluttered specialist: he had played xliii shows without a break existing had developed an untreated upset infection.
The infection caused skilful cyst to develop on say publicly singer's vocal cords that confidential to be removed via larynx surgery on 30 March. Kaulitz was unable to speak unmixed ten days afterwards and difficult to undergo speech therapy be aware one month.
By May 2008, Kaulitz had sufficiently recovered perch Tokio Hotel rescheduled the Chiliad Hotels Tour dates, adding assorted open-air concerts.
The tour closed on 13 July 2008 interior Werchter, Belgium, and, despite dignity surgery and time taken forecast, was deemed a success.
Over 2008 and 2009, Tokio Hotel returned to the disc studio to record their shortly English album and third Teutonic album. The result was Humanoid, which was a much go into detail techno-oriented release and a newborn sound.
Humanoid was released discard 6 October 2009, and steady short of a month succeeding Tokio Hotel picked up influence "Best Group" award at character EMAs in Berlin on 5 November. Humanoid has so distance off spawned two singles, "Automatic"/"Automatisch", unrestricted in September 2009, and "World Behind My Wall"/"Lass uns laufen" (meaning "Let Us Run"), feel be released in January 2010.
In May 2012, Kaulitz was featured on the declare "If I Die Tomorrow" beside Far East Movement on their album Dirty Bass.
Tokio Lodging announced their fifth studio manual, Kings of Suburbia, in 2013 and it was released 3 October 2014.[9]
In 2016, Kaulitz declared his plans for a 1 project under the moniker "Billy" (stylized as BILLY).
His supreme EP, I'm Not OK, was released on 20 May.[10]
Tokio Hotel announced their ordinal studio album, Dream Machine, captive 2016 and it was unattached on 3 March 2017.
In October 2018, Kaulitz was featured on the song "Vogel aus Gold" by Nisse on surmount album Ciao.
Tokio Hotel declared their upcoming album and their tour, Melancholic Paradise, in 2018. The singles "Melancholic Paradise", "When It Rains It Pours" concentrate on "Chateau" were respectively released concept 1 February 2019, 5 Apr 2019, and 17 November 2019.
The LATAM leg of magnanimity Melancholic Paradise tour was inoperative on 12 March 2020 end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In August 2020, Bill announced wander the singles "Durch den Monsun" and "Monsoon" would be re-recorded and released early October 2020 to celebrate the single's Ordinal anniversary, as well as hound songs from the upcoming textbook, and more from his alone career.
"Durch den Monsun 2020" and Monsoon 2020 were mutatis mutandis released on 2 October 2020 and 16 October 2020.
Kaulitz wrote his first autobiography, "Career Suicide: Meine ersten dreißig Jahre" ("My first thirty years"), which was written in German, unacceptable was due for release muddle 4 January 2021,[11] however that was pushed back to 1 February 2021.[12] An English chronicle of the book is besides in production.
Kaulitz announced base 4 December 2020 via crown Instagram story that Tokio will release their new unmarried "Berlin" on 11 December 2020, featuring a guest appearance depart from Canadian singer VVAVES.
Tokio Hotel announced their new outward appearance for Autumn 2021, Beyond dignity World, on 7 December 2020.
This was later postponed during April 2022 due to significance COVID-19 pandemic, and again waiting for April 2023 due to picture Russo-Ukrainian War.
Kaulitz announced expense 11 January 2021 via Tokio Hotel's official Facebook and Instagram accounts their new single "White Lies", which will feature a-okay guest appearance from German EDM duo VIZE.
This was unfastened on 15 January 2021. Do violence to 2021 releases by Tokio Bed include The Who cover "Behind Blue Eyes"; also with VIZE in May, "Sorry Not Sorry" with German rapper Badchieff admire August, and "Here Comes righteousness Night" in October.
Tokio Motel announced their new single "Bad Love", which was originally exchange be released on 21 Jan 2022, but was postponed unjust to Bill and Tom Kaulitz being unable to arrive look Germany in time for rank promotion.
This was eventually unfastened on 4 February 2022 collect new singles "HIM", "When Amazement Were Younger", "Fahr mit mir (4x4)" with Kraftklub and "Happy People" with Daði Freyr shadowing on 8 April 2022, 27 May 2022, 8 July 2022 and 21 October 2022 singly. Their seventh studio album, 2001, was released on 18 Nov 2022.[13]
In 2009, he reprised the role of the Germanic voice of Arthur again perform the Arthur and the Invisibles sequel.
In 2010, Kaulitz president Tokio Hotel teamed up buy and sell Kerli to record the strain Strange for the film Alice In Wonderland and accompanying Almost Alice soundtrack.
Kaulitz, alongside dominion brother Tom, modeled for topping photoshoot, protesting the use accuse animals as a source prime entertainment.
He also modeled optimism Dsquared in early 2010, origination his debut as a baton.
Kaulitz appeared as a committee member on the 10th ready of Deutschland sucht den Superstar. In 2019, he co-hosted Queen of Drags with his sister-in-law Heidi Klum.[14]
In 2022, Kaulitz built a subscription-based OnlyFans account, proper proceeds from the subscriptions use donated to the International Oceanic Mammal Project.[15]
Kaulitz and king identical twin brother, Tom, deskbound to live in Hamburg however moved to Los Angeles discharge October 2010 in response wrest an incident involving stalkers mount a robbery.
They have as well stated that it is slip for them to create their new album, as it not bad closer to their manager Painter Jost. Tom married model Heidi Klum in 2019, whom Reckoning is close friends with.[14]
After migratory to L.A. Kaulitz and magnanimity band took a year give an inkling of and "didn't do anything" earlier finding inspiration in L.A.
nightlife.[16]
Der Spiegel writes that discussion get ahead Kaulitz's sexuality is an "eternal topic", and Kaulitz says beat is one of the chief questions he is typically of one\'s own free will, but he generally avoids discussing it.[17] In November 2014, Kaulitz blogged about love, labels unacceptable his sexuality; Kaulitz has war cry put a label on her majesty sexual orientation, but offered: "Maybe I'm just about to stumble on someone who changes my strength forever and, if that happens, does it really matter what gender they are?"[18] In 2021, Kaulitz revealed that he locked away had a polyamorous relationship resume his best friend and top girlfriend.[17]
Kaulitz is a supporter considerate Angela Merkel and favored magnanimity CDU in the 2017 Teutonic federal election.[19]
In late 2008–early 2009 several female stalkers track the band relentlessly, even next his twin brother Tom Kaulitz to his parents' home stem Germany and attacked the twins' mother.
The issue seemed know end after Tom allegedly strike one of the stalkers enviable a gas station in Apr 2009 and drove off. Subdue, an article in Bild confirmed that the issue had resurfaced and that Tom Kaulitz may well stand trial for assault. Neat late December 2009, the excise against Tom were dropped presentday he pressed charges himself—against rendering girl he allegedly hit—on argument of stalking.[20] Kaulitz cited clean up break-in at their home bring to fruition Germany as a deciding constituent in their move to righteousness United States.[17]
German site says that Kaulitz's look, young be angry and edgy hairstyle has helped him obtain icon status in the midst many teenage girls.[21]Der Spiegel archives that Kaulitz is an portrait within the LGBT community, which Kaulitz has embraced.[17] Kaulitz designs many of his own echelon costumes, and despite poor outline skills, the designs are constructed by his tailor.[22] The balladeer apparently collects suspenders, and progression also "totally crazy about jackets".
Kaulitz reports he has dupe of jackets in his lav – though he has aforementioned that none of his jackets are real leather as appease is opposed to using brute pelts/feathers for clothing.[22] He cites his fashion and style influences as David Bowie (particularly send out the 1986 film Labyrinth), Nena, Vampires, Paris' secondhand shops, extraordinary jewelry and Dior Homme.[22] Oversight also cites Steven Tyler, Karl Lagerfeld and Hedi Slimane.
Kaulitz also has a keen worried in tattoos, getting his premier one when he was 15.[23] His skeleton hand tattoo quite good particularly noted among his fans.[24] In 2018, he got simple tattoo of his late pursue Pumba on his right representative appendag by German tattoo artist Book Meyer.[25]
In August 2008, Kaulitz was chosen as the most strike singer on stage by influence readers of the Spanish journal ¡Hola!.[26] He was also immortalized in wax at the Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin assertion 30 September 2008.
Kaulitz was 19 when the likeness was made, making him the youngest person to be duplicated through the Madame Tussauds museum vibrate Berlin.[27][28] In December 2008, Kaulitz was named "Man of illustriousness Year #6" by MTV News.[29]
In September 2009, Kaulitz was korea by fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld to take part in exceptional photo shoot for the Ordinal birthday of Vogue in Germany.[22][30]Karl Lagerfeld described him as "The Other Idea of a German" and wrote that the 20-year-old singer with the unusual identifying became a superstar; and unadulterated fashion icon.[22]
In October 2009, Kaulitz was number 11 on Germanic magazine GQ's Best Dressed listing.
They cite his flamboyant speak to as one of the grounds he was chosen, as okay as his liking to hall and try new things. Architect Michael Michalsky supported his elect by saying: "Bill Kaulitz admiration unique and uncompromising, Pop-Art kowtow to life. He likes smash into change – that is fashion."[31][32] For the Dsquared2 Fall/Winter 2010 fashion show, Kaulitz opened essential closed the show with rendering song Screamin'.
After moving total the United States, Kaulitz appointed a more masculine look. Kaulitz states that his former showing took three hours to pick up and that he couldn't outdistance it anymore. He says ditch part of his new visage is to "break out, be present normally and love."[17]
Further information: Tokio Hotel discography
Tokio Hotel
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