[3] As a teenager, he attended a sport gymnasium and played with the FC Union Berlin club football up to the "B" age level, around 16.

As a winner of the talent competition, he performed in the summer of 2009 before 20,000 spectators at the Berlin Waldbühne, one of Europe's largest concert venues.

He received a recording contract with Sony Music and performed as an opening act for Silly on their 2010 tour.

[8] The single, written by Tim Bendzko, Mo Brandis and Simon Triebel, was certified 3× Gold in Germany for sales of more than 450,000 copies.

On 29 September 2011, he came back to his hometown of Berlin for the Bundesvision Song Contest 2011 with the title track of his Album, Wenn Worte meine Sprache wären and won the competition.