Anders (Thomas)   (Germany)

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Latest Thomas Anders news

13/05/2018 : Thomas Anders posted pics from a recent photosession and announced that his second German-speaking album was on its way...

03/05/2018 : Thomas Anders will be part of the jury for next X-factor season on German TV channel Sky. Show will air from August 27th.

09/12/2017 : On December 15th, Thomas Anders will release a cover of Do they know it‘s Christmas.

09/09/2017 : Discover the videoclip for Thomas Anders' new single Sternenregen.

07/09/2017 : A live concert of Thomas Anders and his band in Cochem (Germany) will air on SWR channel website tonight at 19:30 (Paris time)

14/08/2017 : Thomas Anders's new single and videoclip Sternenregen is planned for August 18th.

03/05/2017 : Next October, Thomas Anders will release a cookbook entitled "Modern Cooking: Einfach, lecker, anders"

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Thomas Anders albums

	Different	Aug 1989
	Whispers	1991
	For Your Love	1992
	Down On Sunset	1st Sep 1992
	When Will I See You Again	1993
	Barcos De Cristal	19th Apr 1994
	Souled	5th Apr 1995
	Live Concert	1997
	This Time	23rd Feb 2004
	Songs Forever	3rd Mar 2006
	Strong	7th Feb 2010
	Two (with Fahrenkrog)	1st Jun 2011
	Balladen	18th Nov 2011
	Best Of	5th Oct 2012
	Christmas For You	16th Nov 2012
	History	27th May 2016
	Pures Leben	7th Apr 2017

Thomas Anders DVDs and VHS

The DVD-Collection

28th Apr 2006

DVD

Thomas Anders singles

	Judy	1980
	Du weinst um ihn	1980
	Es war die Nacht der ersten Liebe	1981
	Ich will nicht dein Leben	1982
	Was macht das schon	1983
	Heißkalter Engel	1983
	Wovon träumst du denn	1983
	Endstation Sehnsucht	1984
	Es geht mir gut heut' Nacht	1984
	Love Of My Own	May 1989
	One Thing	Jul 1989
	Soldier	Nov 1989
	The Sweet Hello The Sad Goodbye	1991
	Can't Give You Anything	1991
	True Love	1991
	Standing Alone (duet with Glenn Medeiros)	1992
	How Deep Is Your Love	Jul 1992
	Stay A Little Longer	1993
	When Will I See You Again (feat The Three Degrees)	23rd Jul 1993
	I'll Love You Forever	22nd Sep 1993
	The Love in Me	21st Jul 1994
	Road To Higher Love	Nov 1994
	Never Knew Love Like This Before	1995
	A Little Bit Of Lovin'	1995
	Independent Girl	10th Nov 2003
	King Of Love	2nd Feb 2004
	Tonight Is The Night	3rd May 2004
	Just Dream	18th Oct 2004
	Cry For Help Video only	2006
	All Around The World	2006
	A Very Special Feeling	2006
	Songs That Live Forever	2006
	Kisses For Christmas	21st Nov 2008
	Good Karma	2009
	Make You	2010
	Stay With Me	11th Oct 2010
	Why Do You Cry Promo only	2011
	Gigolo	27th May 2011
	No More Tears On The Dancefloor	2nd Sep 2011
	No Ordinary Love (with Kamaliya)	20th Apr 2012
	We Are One (with Omid)	9th Aug 2013
	Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Russia only)	1st Jun 2014
	Lunatic	20th May 2016
	Love Is in the Air	8th Jul 2016
	Der Beste Tag Meines Lebens	24th Feb 2017
	Sternenregen	18th Aug 2017
	Do They Know It's Christmas	15th Dec 2017

Featurings and collaborations

	Modern Talking - You're My Heart, Your're My Soul	Sep 1984
	Modern Talking - You Can Win If You Want	Mar 1985
	Modern Talking - Cheri Cheri Lady	Sep 1985
	Modern Talking - Brother Louie	1986
	Modern Talking - Atlantis Is Calling	1986
	Modern Talking - Geronimo's Cadillac	1986
	Modern Talking - Give Me Peace On Earth	1986
	Modern Talking - Lonely Tears In Chinatown	1987
	Modern Talking - Jet Airliner	1987
	Modern Talking - In 100 Years	1987
	Modern Talking - Locomotion Tango	1988
	Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul	Mar 1998
	Modern Talking - Brother Louie'98	Aug 1998
	Modern Talking - You Are Not Alone	1st Feb 1999
	Modern Talking - Sexy, Sexy Lover	14th May 1999
	Modern Talking - We Take The Chance	21st Dec 1999
	Modern Talking - China In Her Eyes	1st Feb 2000
	Modern Talking - Don't Take Away My Heart	2nd May 2000
	Modern Talking - Win The Race	26th Feb 2001
	Modern Talking - Last Exit To Brooklyn	30th Apr 2001
	Modern Talking - Ready For The Victory	18th Feb 2002
	Modern Talking - Juliet	29th Apr 2002
	Modern Talking - TV Makes The Superstar	5th Mar 2003
	Sound Chateau - Ibiza Baba Baya	Aug 2008
	Sandra - The Night Is Still Young	8th May 2009

Thomas Anders biography

Thomas Anders was born on March 1st as Bernd Weidung in Münstermaifeld/Eifel. His mother Helga ran a grocery store and a café. His father worked as a revenue officer and as a mayor of the small town Mörz. Other family members include brother Achim, who is six years older and Tanja, the pet of the family, who is 7 years younger than Thomas Anders.

Even as a child, Thomas was more an aesthete than an athlete. So he preferred music instead of soccer. His debut on stage was at the age 7 at a St. Nicholas' Day Party, where he sang Christmas carols. From that day on he knew: " I'm going to be a singer". The neighbors were able to see the birth of his career: The house boomed when Thomas turned on his cassette recorder, singing duets with Barry Manilow. Even when he went to school he took part in several talent competitions.

He took piano lessons and later he even changed schools to take music as special subject. This is how he came to Koblenz, where he is still living today. After he had passed his education, he signed up at the university of Mainz to study German Studies, Journalism and Musicology. By this time he had already performed in several clubs and discotheques.

A music competition of the radio station "Radio Luxembourg", (a highly noted and respected competition in those days) was the decisive of a career as a singer. Thomas aroused enthusiasm. However, he got no points from two of the members of the jury, and it seemed as if he had no chance for success. No ways! Those two members offered him a recording contract two days later. From that day on he called himself Thomas Anders.

In 1980, Judy the first single of the 15 year old Thomas Anders was released. Several singles followed which were produced by Daniel David. In 1981 Thomas had his debut on TV in the Michael Schanze Show "Hätten sie heut´ Zeit für uns". He performed the song Du Weinst Um Ihn.

In 1983 producer Dieter Bohlen recorded a German cover version of the song Pick Up Phone (F.R. David). At that time Thomas was an artist at HANSA, (today BMG Berlin), Dieter asked him to come to the recording studio in Hamburg to record the song together with Dieter Bohlen. Dieter Bohlen was enthusiastic about his voice. As a result he produced several German songs with Thomas, for example Wovon Träumst Du Denn ?, which peaked at 16 on the German Pop-Charts, Endstation Sehnsucht and Heißkalter Engel (German version of Send Me An Angel from the band Real Life).

In autumn 1984, Dieter Bohlen wrote the song You're My Heart, You're My Soul under the Spanish sun, which was the debut song for Dieter and Thomas. Modern Talking was born. You're My Heart, You're My Soul went to the top of the Charts and remained there for 6 weeks. The songs of the Pop-Duo were a huge success, nearly every song became a hit and things happened really fast. Soon, Modern Talking was the most successful German Pop-Duo and they got several gold and platinum records...

At the beginning of the 90s, Thomas wanted to give up making music and he spent a lot of time in Los Angeles (USA). When he felt that music was still his passion, he started a solo-career at which he can proudly look back. In the whole he has released six solo albums.

Between 1989 and 1995 he worked together with famous producers. The first one was Gus Dudgeon, known for being Elton John's producer. Their collaboration led to the album Different. The single Love Of My Own was his biggest success.

In 1991 he recorded the album Whispers in London. One year later he recorded the album Down On Sunset in Los Angeles. In 1993 the next album of Thomas followed : When Will I See You Again was also recorded in Los Angeles. In 1994 Thomas Anders sang Spanish for the first time and he released the album Barcos De Cristal.

Then he started working with Peter Wolf (Sara, Everybody Has Fun Tonight) and recorded the album Souled. He went on his own solo tour throughout foreign countries, like Kapstadt, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Santiago de Chile, Moscow, etc. He performed in front of as many as 85 000 enthusiastic fans.

He sang duets with well-known artists like Glen Medeiros (Standing Alone, on the album Down On Sunset), the Pointer Sisters (Feel For The Physical, on the album Souled) and Three Degrees (When Will I See You Again, on the same-titled album).

As a composer he also had some hits in foreign countries. He wrote the title song for an Argentinean Serial and went together with the Spanish artist Martha Sanchez to position 1 in the Mexican Charts.

2003 : his single Independent Girl was released on November 10th . It has nothing to see with eurodance, unfortunately. It is a mid-tempo number, which reflects both his musical future and his Modern Talking roots. On the maxi CD one could find the bonus track In your Eyes, a ballad written by Thomas himself in collaboration with Peter Ries (famed No Angels producer).

2004 : Thomas released the maxi-CD King Of Love on the 2nd of February, as well as a new single called This Time. The follow-up will be entitled Tonight Is The Night, and it will be out on the 3rd of May.

The second season of German music TV show Best of Formel Eins again featured Thomas Anders as one of the hosts of the show. The show looked back at the music videos presented on the music show Formel Eins during the Eighties. The second season of the show will have ten regular episodes and one live finale show. The first episode was aired on 8th November on German TV station Kabel 1.

In October, he released a new single called Just Dream, which entered the German singles sales charts at number 64. The song was the 10th solo single by Thomas Anders to reach the German Top 100 and the 30th chart single that featured Thomas Anders as a vocalist (including Modern Talking singles). Just Dream was not included on Thomas’ most recent album This Time. It was written for the show Holiday On Ice.

2006 : Thomas Anders was among the German finalists to be chosen to represent Germany at Eurovision 2006, but he ended #2 and wasn't selected. He released a new album entitled Songs Forever, and received the title of honorary Professor of Kiev National University of Arts and Culture.

2008: Thomas Anders regularly appears on stage with his orchestra to a special show called Thomas Anders Fanparty, during which he sings all the Modern Talking hits. In August, he released a new song entitled Ibiza Baba Baya, with Sound Chateau, for once a dance song. Followed Kisses For Christmas in November.

2009 : he presented his new single Good Karma at die Frühlingsshow on ZDF at the end of April. The same-titled album should be released late summer 2009. It will also include the duet with Sandra, The Night Is Still Young.

2011 : in August, title of second single from the album Two he did with Uwe Fahrenkrog was No More Tears On The Dancefloor. It will include a special club remix by Thomas Detert. In November he released an album entitled Balladen and released his autobiography entitled 100 PROZENT ANDERS: Die Autobiografie - Mein Leben - und die Wahrheit über Modern Talking, Nora und Dieter Bohlen.

2012 : next single from "the gentleman of music" (how he is frequently called on German TV) is a duet with Russian singer Kamaliya entitled No Ordinary Love. He released a Best Of album on October 3rd. and a new album entitled Christmas For You.

Thanks to Kizoo

Thomas Anders biography was last updated Sat, January 13th 2018

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