Dieter Bohlen

Dieter Bohlen born Dieter Günter Bohlen 7 February 1954 is a German songwriter producer singer and television personality He first achieved fame as a member of the pop duo Modern Talking in the 1980s and has since produced numerous German and international artists He is also a judge on casting shows Deutschland sucht den Superstar and Das Supertalent Bohlen is the eldest son of building contractor Hans Bohlen born 1928 and his wife Edith born 1936 and grew up in East Frisia His maternal grandmother is originally from Königsberg He was named Dieter Günter Bohlen but later expressed dissatisfaction with his second given name and had it officially struck He has a younger brother named Uwe The family later moved to Eversten Oldenburg In his youth Bohlen was a member of the Socialist German Workers Youth for a while and shortly of the German Communist Party though he is not a member of any party nowadays After getting his Abitur at the Wirtschaftsgymnasium der Berufsbildenden Schulen in OldenburgHaarentor he moved to Göttingen There he studied business administration at his parents request at the GeorgAugustUniversität finishing his studies in 1978 with a degree Bohlen was still in school when he started writing music In the late 1970s he worked as a songwriter at the Hamburgbased label Intersong for numerous Schlager singers In 1978 he founded the shortlived duo Monza with Holger Garbode Their first single Hallo Taxi Nummer 10 written and produced by Tony Hendrik was Bohlens first record and was unsuccessful Monza released a second single Heiße Nacht in der City a Germanlanguage cover of Nick Gilders Hot Child in the City which also was unsuccessful In 1980 he began working for the Berlinbased label Hansa That same year under the pseudonym Steve Benson he released a solo single in English Dont Throw My Love Away It was followed in 1981 by two other singles under that name Love Takes Time and Youre A Devil With Angel Blue Eyes None of them reached the top 100 which led to the abandonment of the project in 1981 Soon after he joined the band Sunday with which he appeared on the ZDFHitparade in early 1982 with the song Halé hey Louise The song was covered by artists such as Ricky King In 1983 Bohlen wrote the song Mit 17 for Bernd Clüver which reached the third place of the German preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest After Bohlen produced six unsuccessful singles in German for Schlager singer Thomas Anders from 1982 to 1984 they founded the pop duo Modern Talking The band topped the German singles chart five times in a row with Youre My Heart Youre My Soul You Can Win If You Want Cheri Cheri Lady Brother Louie and Atlantis Is Calling SOS For Love and were also successful in other European countries as well as in Asia and Africa In 1987 the band split up and Bohlen founded his solo project Blue System which he ended ten years later He also continued writing and producing for other artists including C C Catch whom he discovered Sheree whom he signed when she was fifteen years old and boy band Touché Source Article Dieter Bohlen from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30