Mike Leon Grosch
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Mike Leon Grosch
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Biography
German pop singer Mike Leon Grosch vaulted from obscurity to household name as the runner-up on the third season of Deutschland Sucht den SuperStar, the country's version of the American Idol franchise. Born November 11, 1976, in Wuppertal and raised in Cologne, Grosch was working as a mobile phone salesman when he was named a Deutschland Sucht den SuperStar finalist in autumn 2005. With a husky, soulful voice often compared to British pop sensation Seal, he was hotly tipped to win the grand prize, and his budding romance with fellow competitor Vanessa Jean Dedmon guaranteed him even greater media coverage. Grosch nevertheless fell to Tobias Regner in the season finale, earning 45 percent of the audience vote. His debut single, "Don't Let It Get You Down," followed in mid-2006, topping the German pop charts and buoying sales of the full-length LP Absolute, which reached the number two spot. The second single, "Confessional," fared comparatively poorly, barely cracking the Top 30. ~ Jason Ankeny, RoviWikipedia on Answers.com:
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Mike Leon Grosch
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.jpg) Charity concert "Cover me" 2006, Cologne, Germany |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mike Leon Grosch |
| Born | November 2, 1976 |
| Origin | Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Genres | Pop, rock |
| Occupations | singer |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | SonyBMG (2006) |
| Website | Official site |
Mike Leon Grosch (born November 2, 1976 in Wuppertal) is a German singer, who came to fame as the runner-up of the third season of the television show Deutschland sucht den SuperStar, the German version of Pop Idol.
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Biography
Grosch was born in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia to German-Australian father and Korean mother. He later moved to Cologne with his single mother Sung-Yun, who worked as a nurse there. He gained his first professional stage experience when he started singing at weddings and other ceremonies, while simultaneously performing with his own band.
Until autumn 2005 Mike worked as a cell phone seller. At that time he took leave from his job to participate in the third season of Deutschland sucht den SuperStar (where he also became romantically involved with co-competitor Vanessa Jean Dedmon). Because of his strong, husky voice and a few similarities to British singer Seal Grosch became an early favourite with the judges and the audience, who enabled him to sing against competitor Tobias Regner during the final show. However, in the end he lost by vote scoring 45% against Regner.
Grosch released a second single "Confessional" from his album "Absolute" to minor success. He also joined Regner for a summer tour around Germany which was called "Absolute Straight".
In early March 2007 Grosch admitted to Bild, the biggest German daily tabloid, that SonyBMG would not continue their existing record contract with him and thus was being dropped. He also stated that so far no other record label had showed interest in working with him.[1]
Discography
Albums
- Absolute (2006) #2 GER
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart Positions | ||
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| GER | AUT | SWI | ||
| 2006 | Don't Let It Get You Down Absolute |
#1 | #6 | #2 |
| 2006 | Confessional Absolute |
#30 | - | - |
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