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Adel Tawil | |
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 Tawil performing in 2019 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Adel Salah Mahmoud Eid El-Tawil |
| Born | 15 August 1978 Berlin, West Germany |
| Genres | |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Website | adel-tawil |
Adel Salah Mahmoud Eid El-Tawil (born 15 August 1978) is a German singer, songwriter and producer. Besides his solo career, he is part of the popular German duo Ich + Ich and a former member of the boy band The Boyz.
Early life
[edit]Tawil was born in Berlin. His father Salah Tawil is Egyptian and his mother is Tunisian. He is the first born of three, having a younger brother, Hatem, and a sister, Rascha.
Musical career
[edit]During the end of the 1990s, Tawil was part of the German boyband The Boyz. Since 2004, he and Annette Humpe formed the duo known as Ich + Ich. They have released three albums, Ich + Ich (2005), Vom Selben Stern (2007) and Gute Reise (2009).
In 2007, Tawil teamed up with rapper Azad and released the song "Prison Break Anthem (Ich glaub' an dich)",[1] which is the opening theme for the German version of Prison Break. He made another solo appearance with Tobias Schenke for the song "Niemand hat gesagt".
In 2007, Tawil held three spots in the top ten with two released singles and one album.
On 8 November 2013, he released his first solo album, Lieder, in Germany, and also toured in 2014.[2]
Personal life
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In 2011, Tawil married his longtime girlfriend Jasmin Weber in a private ceremony in Berlin.[3] In 2014, they were separated. He currently lives with his girlfriend Lena.
Discography
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [4] | AUT [5] | SWI [6] | |||
| Lieder |
| 4 | 6 | 17 | |
| So schön anders |
| 1 | 5 | 3 |
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| Alles lebt | 7 | 17 | 7 | ||
| Spiegelbild |
| 7 | 50 | 33 | |
Singles
[edit]As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak positions | Certifications | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [4] | AUT [5] | SWI [6] | ||||
| "Lieder" | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 6 | Lieder | |
| "Aschenflug" (featuring Prinz Pi & Sido) | 18 | 33 | 41 | |||
| "Weinen" | 2014 | 57 | — | 38 | ||
| "Zuhause" (featuring Matisyahu) | 23 | 6 | 64 |
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| "Kartenhaus" | 78 | — | — | |||
| "Wenn du liebst" | 2015 | — | — | — | ||
| "Unsere Lieder" | 33 | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "Bis hier und noch weiter" (featuring KC Rebell & Summer Cem) | 2017 | 23 | 72 | 97 | So schön anders | |
| "Ist da jemand" | 12 | 9 | 3 |
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| "Gott steh mir bei" | — | — | — | |||
| "Eine Welt eine Heimat" (featuring Youssou N’Dour & Mohamed Mounir) | — | — | — | |||
| "So schön anders" | — | — | — | |||
| "Polarlichter" (featuring MoTrip) | — | — | — | |||
| "Flutlicht" | 2018 | — | — | — | Non-album single | |
| "Tu m'appelles" (featuring Peachy) | 2019 | 48 | — | 30 | Alles lebt | |
| "Neues Ich" | — | — | — | |||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak positions | Certifications | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER [4] | AUT [5] | SWI [6] | ||||
| "Niemand hat gesagt" (Tobias Schenke featuring Kane) | 2003 | 85 | — | — | The Dome Vol. 26 | |
| "Prison Break Anthem (Ich glaub' an dich)" (Azad featuring Adel Tawil) | 2007 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| Blockschrift |
| "Stadt" (Cassandra Steen featuring Adel Tawil) | 2009 | 2 | 3 | 31 |
| Darum leben wir |
| "Der Himmel soll warten" (Sido featuring Adel Tawil) | 2010 | 2 | 4 | 28 |
| MTV Unplugged Live aus'm MV |
| "Ich will nur dass du weißt" (SDP featuring Adel Tawil) | 2015 | 15 | 41 | 41 |
| Zurück in die Zukunst |
| "Zuhause ist die Welt noch in Ordnung" (Sido featuring Adel Tawil) | 80 | — | 47 |
| VI | |
| "Vielleicht" (Gestört aber GeiL featuring Adel Tawil) | 2019 | 38 | — | — | Non-album-single | |
References
[edit]- ^ Music video for "Ich Glaub an Dich"
- ^ Adel Tawil Tourdates Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Vorverkaufstarts.de. Retrieved Oktober 24. 2013.
- ^ ""Ich+Ich"-Sänger Adel Tawil heiratet".
- ^ a b c "Discographie Adel Tawil". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ a b c "Adel Tawil discography". austriancharts.at. Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- ^ a b c "Adel Tawil discography". hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank" (To access, enter the search parameter "Adel Tawil" and select "Suchen"). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Adel Tawil: Austrian Certifications" (To access, enter the search parameter "Adel Tawil" and select "Suchen"). Hung Medien (ifpi.at). Retrieved 24 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Adel Tawil: Swiss Certifications". Hung Medien (swisschart.com). Retrieved 24 March 2017.
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