小简介
2003年3月,寻找德国最具潜力才华的超级巨星选秀会总决赛当日,写下了德国娱乐史上新的一页,在1千3百万观众的热情期待关注下,年仅19的小帅哥 Alexander Klaws以精湛的演唱实力和完美的舞台魅力获得了超过七成的得票率,打败对手夺得冠军,「德国最具潜力的超级巨星」于焉诞生!
首支单曲〈Take Me Tonight〉即以雷霆万钧之势登上单曲榜冠军,销售更突破百万,证明了他在德国受欢迎的程度,而首张专辑《Take Your Chance》更一举获得了media control charts冠军!不论是pop、rock-pop、soul、disco、甚至R&B,Alexander充分展现了他演唱的才能,以独特魅力诠释出个人风味。自小学习钢琴和自我训练歌艺,青少年时就开始组团表演,吸引了当地音乐人的注意,邀请加入国内颇负盛名的乐团担任主唱, Alexander的成功绝非偶然,脚踏实地的把握每个机会磨练充实,谦逊的态度不曾被成功冲昏头,果然具有超级巨星的专业态度和大将之风!除音乐才华外,他主笔的「It's Me-Alexander」突破了3万本的销售成绩,在最佳销售排行榜中盘旋了数周之久,也展现他的文字写作功力!
Alexander Klaws was the winner of the first season of the Pop Idol spinoff Deutschland Sucht den Superstar. He was born in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia in 1983 and grew up in Sendenhorst. Klaws was an early bloomer, to say the least; he sang Haddaway's "What Is Love?" on national television when he was ten years old and he had a voice coach by the time he was 13. In 2002, he clawed his way up through the ranks of Deutschland Sucht den Superstar and beat Juliette Schoppmann in the finale by a margin of 20 percent. He was signed to Sony BMG once the show was over, and his debut single, 2003's "Take Me Tonight," held the number one position on the German and Swiss singles charts in its first week. It went on to sell over a million copies in Germany alone, and was one of the best-selling singles of the year, second only to the DSDS single "We Have a Dream."
Klaws' debut album, Take Your Chance, came out a couple months later; it peaked at number one on the German charts and yielded three more Top Ten singles: "Stay with Me," "Behind the Sun," and the number one hit "Free Like the Wind." Another album, Here I Am, emerged the following year; it peaked at number one in Germany, and generated two more Top Ten hits for Klaws: "Behind the Sun" and "Sunshine After the Rain." His third album, 2005's Attention!, only just managed to break into the German Top 20, and Sony BMG only released one single from the album based on its relatively weak sales. After a relatively quiet two-year break, Klaws returned to the stage as Alfred in a production of Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires), a German stage adaptation of Roman Polanski's film The Fearless Vampire Killers.