Marcelo Araujo Alves


Marcelo Alves Araújo is a German - Brazilian pop singer. Alves is from Brazil and has lived in Germany for four years. He attended in Fulda , the Ferdinand-Braun-school and Eduard-Stieler-school and currently trained as a plumber.

In the summer of 2014 at Fulda University Square, a bus of the talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar, Alves sang and was casting for the twelfth season of the show invited. He has performed with the self-written song reggae love Verliebt in der falsches Mädchen, the beat of the song Waterpumpee the Berlin band Seeed is based. He rapped in broken German with many grammar mistakes over his heartbreak . His voice did not meet the requirements of the jury, and he did not make it into the next round. However, attested jury member Dieter Bohlen Alves hit potential.

Even before the television broadcasting presented RTL on 22 December 2014, the video with Alves' appearance on the video platform YouTube in order to promote the launch of the new season. The video quickly became popular in the social networks. After the television broadcast of the show on January 24, 2015 reached nearly one million views within a few days. For the first time in the history of Germany sucht den Superstar RTL presented an appearance of the casting for download. The song then rose to #1 on the download charts from different vendors and then No 28 of the German charts.