Carlo Waibel (born 31 January 1990[1]), better known by the stage name Cro, is a German rapper and singer.

[12] After receiving his Mittlere Reife, he completed an apprenticeship as a media designer and worked for the Stuttgarter Zeitung as a cartoonist.

[13][14] Through Kaas, Cro met Sebastian Andrej Schweizer, founder of the independent-label, Chimperator Productions, and Kodimey Awokou.

[12] From 30 October until 7 November 2011, Cro was a supporting act for the Norwegian band Madcon during their Glow Tour 2011.

[12] In November 2011, the music video for Easy, which had been directed by Harris Hodovic and was announcing the upcoming mixtape, was released on tape.tv.

[23][24] On 1 December 2011, Cro was a guest on the show NeoParadise by the channel ZDFneo, where he performed snippets of three songs from his mixtapes Meine Musik and Easy.

[26] In the beginning of 2012, Cro signed an author's contract with Universal Music Publishing Group.

[34] From 29 June until 1 July, Cro released one single each day, "Du", "King of Raop", and "Meine Zeit".

[38] On 19 October 2012, Cro released the track "1 Millionen" through the iTunes and made it available for free download.

[41][42][43] In November, Cro's debut album, Raop and single "Easy" reached platinum status in Germany whereas "Du" was certified gold.

[49] Cro has cooperated with H&M and has designed a collection of clothes for men and women which was released on 4 April 2013.

On 8 September 2017, he had his first vernissage at the Circle Culture Gallery in Berlin, where he showed several pieces of art, including masks that he colored and self-made paintings.

In 2016, Cro made his first movie titled Unsere Zeit ist jetzt [de] ("Our Time Is Now"), where he was working together with German actor Til Schweiger.

Since the premiere of the video to "Unendlichkeit", Cro wore a more minimalistic mask that is made of plastic and is fully white.