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MY FAVOURITE SINGER BILL KAULITZ

Early life (1989–1999)

Bill Kaulitz was born on 1 September 1989 in Leipzig, Germany. He has an identical twin brother, Tom, who is older by ten minutes. His parents, Simone and Jörg Kaulitz, separated when Kaulitz and his brother were seven years old. Eventually his mother began dating again, to Gordon Trümper, the guitarist from the German rock band Fatun. After being in a relationship with him for twelve years, Simone married him on 1 August 2009.

Kaulitz showed an early interest in singing, as did Tom in playing guitar. Trümper noticed the twins' musical inclinations, and helped the twins to start their own band. According to Kaulitz in several interviews, he and Tom started writing music at the age of seven years old.

Early musical career (1999–2003)

At the age of ten the brothers began performing live in Magdeburg, near their hometown of Loitsche, under the pseudonym Black Question Mark. They played small shows and while their audiences enjoyed them, they were largely unknown. The band lacked a drummer and bass player and the twins relied on a keyboard to fill in other instrumental sounds.

The year the brothers turned twelve, they met Georg Listing (then 14) and Gustav Schäfer (then 13), in the audience of one of their shows. Listing and Schäfer were friends and after the show, having liked what they heard and saw, made an offer to join. The band was promptly re-named "Devilish" due to an article published at the time that referred to their "devilishly great“ sound. The four continued to perform, but aside from being featured on a small-time German news program somewhere between late 2002 and early 2003, Devilish weren't going anywhere until Kaulitz auditioned on the reality TV talent show "Star Search."

First releases

This continued until 2005 when Jost arranged a meeting between the band and Universal Music Group's Interscope Records and Tokio Hotel was signed. They began working immediately, releasing their debut LP Schrei ("Scream") later that year. Their first single off of Schrei was "Durch den Monsun" ("Through The Monsoon"), which reached #1 in Germany within a month of its release.

First tour and growing success

Tokio Hotel launched their debut tour in Germany. On stage, Kaulitz was noted and well-known for his energetic style and harmonizing with the fans.

Tokio Hotel were a household name in Germany at this point. Tokio Hotel began working on their second album, Zimmer 483 ( Room 483 ), released in February 2007. The album spawned three singles initially: "Übers Ende der Welt" ("Over the End of the World" - released as "Ready, Set, Go!"), "Spring nicht" ("Don't Jump"), and "An deiner Seite (Ich bin da)" ("By Your Side (I am there)" - released as "By Your Side"). A fourth single, "Heilig" ("Holy" - released as "Sacred"), was released in 2008.

To support the release of Zimmer 483 , Tokio Hotel began a continental tour of Europe, spawning another live DVD and a large publicity boost.

Genre

The style of music is a mixture of alternative rock, pop rock, pop punk, synthrock, emo and synthpop.

Other work

In 2009, he reprised the role of the German voice of Arthur again for the Arthur und die Minimoys (Arthur And The Invisibles) sequel. In 2010, Kaulitz and Tokio Hotel teamed up with Kerli to record the song Strange for the film Alice In Wonderland and accompanying Almost Alice soundtrack. Kaulitz, alongside his brother, Tom, modeled for a PETA.de photoshoot, protesting the use of animals as a source of entertainment. He also modeled for Dsquared in early 2010, making his debut as a model.

Public image

Bill Kaulitz designs many of his own stage costumes, and despite poor drawing skills, the designs are constructed by his tailor. The singer apparently collects suspenders, and is also "totally crazy about jackets". Kaulitz reports he has hundreds of jackets in his closet - though he has said that none of his jackets are real leather as he is opposed to using animal pelts/feathers for clothing. He cites his fashion and style influences as David Bowie.

Kaulitz was 19 when the likeness was made, making him the youngest person to be duplicated by the Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin. In December 2008, Bill Kaulitz was named "Man of the Year #6" by MTV News.

In September 2009, Kaulitz was chosen by fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld to take part in a photo shoot for the 30th birthday of Vogue in Germany. Karl Lagerfeld described him as "The Other Idea of a German" and wrote that the 20-year-old singer with the unusual styling became a superstar; and a fashion icon.

Example song “By Your Side ”

No one knows how you feel No one there you’d like to see The day was dark and full of pain You write ‘help’ with your own blood `Cause hope is all you’ve got You open up your eyes But nothing is changed I don’t want to cause you trouble Don’t want to stay too long I just came here to say to you

Turn around I’m here If you want it’s me you see Doesn’t count Far or near I can hold you when you reach for me

Your life is meaningless Your diary full of trush It’s so hard to get along with empty hands You’re looking for the rainbow But it died not long ago It tried to shine just for you and to the end I don’t want to cause you trouble Don’t want to stay too long I just came here to say to you I’m by your side Just for a little while

If the world makes you confused And your senses you seem to loose If there’s storm that you wanna diffuse And you just don’t know what to do Look around I’m here Doesn’t count Far or near

I’m by your side Just for a little while Turn around   Turn around I’m here    Turn around  Doesn’t count Far or near Turn around   If you want it’s me you see Turn around   I can hold you when you reach for me

I’m by your side Just for a little while We’ll make it if we try