[1] Later, he moved to the Netherlands to earn a diploma in International Marketing at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Venlo.

[1] There, he met singer-songwriter Michy Reincke, his neighbor at his new home in Barmbek-Süd, who garnered Oerding his first gigs.

[3] In 2009, Oerding his released his first single "Die Tage werden anders sein" on Columbia Records.

Oerding worked with producers Mark "Big" Smith and Sven "Chef" Bünger on the majority of the album.

It became his first top ten album in Germany, debuting at number four, and was eventually certified gold by Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI).