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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.
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
Singles
| Year |
Title |
Chart Positions |
Album |
| GER |
AUT |
SWI |
| 2006 |
"Don't Let It Get You Down" |
#1 |
#6 |
#2 |
Absolute |
| 2006 |
"Confessional" |
#30 |
|
|
Absolute |
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