Thomas Godoj

Thomas Godoj，1978年3月6日出生，波蘭裔。 　　作為2007年德國選秀節目第五屆“德國偶像”（DSDS——Deutschland sucht den Superstar）的候選人，從海選起就受到所有三位評委的一致認同，始終具有超高人氣，一路比賽下來幾乎沒有遇到什么阻礙，領先每周的投票，最終奪得冠軍！ 　　頗具唱功的Thomas Godoj之前就自組樂隊過，已然頗有名氣。憑借其深情質感，抒情搖滾路線，自從在德國全國選秀比賽中大放異彩，Sony BMG唱片公司首先為其操刀發行首張新專輯。 by Jason Birchmeier Thomas Godoj is a Polish-German pop/rock singer/songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the fifth season of the reality show Deutschland Sucht den Superstar. Born on March 6, 1978, in Rybnik, Poland, he moved with his family to Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in 1988. While a student at Bochum University of Applied Sciences, where he studied civil engineering, Godoj performed in a series of local rock bands. This experience inspired him to audition for the fifth season of Deutschland Sucht den Superstar, a Pop Idol-style reality show. Not only was he selected to appear on the show; he proceeded to win the entire 2007-2008 competition, performing Sunrise Avenue's "Fairytale Gone Bad," Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars," and a song of his own, "Love Is You," on the final episode. A recording contract with Sony BMG resulted, and Godoj's full-length solo album debut, Plan A! (2008), was released later in the year. The album was a smash hit, topping the album charts of Germany and Austria and going all the way to number three in Switzerland; moreover, "Love Is You" -- the song he had performed on the final episode of Deutschland Sucht den Superstar -- was also a smash hit, topping the singles charts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lithuania, and Luxemburg.