20 Facts About Thomas Anders

Thomas Anders is best known as the vocalist of the former pop duo Modern Talking.

Thomas Anders was born in Koblenz, West Germany and grew up in the small village of Morz, a suburb of Munstermaifeld, with an older brother and a younger sister.

Thomas Anders's father worked as a civil servant at the local revenue service agency, while his mother ran a convenience store.

Thomas Anders began showing interest in music early as a child, and subsequently took piano and singing lessons.

Thomas Anders did his first stage-performance at the age of six, playing Saint Nicholas in a religious children's play.

Thomas Anders finished his 'Abitur' in 1982 at Eichendorff-Gymnasium in Koblenz, to take advanced music classes.

Two days after the contest, Thomas Anders was offered a record contract by the same jury members of the radio contest.

Thomas Anders signed his first record contract with CBS while still in school and took up the stage name of Thomas Anders, performing in the then-popular German Schlager genre.

Furthermore, Modern Talking and Thomas Anders were especially successful in the Soviet Union, where they were one of the first Western bands allowed to sell their records and perform.

Thomas Anders recorded an alternative English title track for the animated TV series Ducktales by Disney in 1990.

Bohlen and Thomas Anders had both opposed the recording of a proper greatest hits album for years.

In late 1997, Bohlen suggested the recording of a new album instead and contacted Thomas Anders, who had signed a contract with Ariola for an eventual comeback several years prior.

Thomas Anders subsequently sued Bohlen for libel and succeeded in having certain passages removed, but lost the lawsuit for compensation in 2005.

Shortly after the break-up of Modern Talking, Thomas Anders started recording his eighth solo album, pop effort This Time, which was released in February 2004.

Thomas Anders took part as a jury member in Stefan Raab's casting show SSDSGPS, which searched for the German entrant for the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest and was a competing event to Dieter Bohlen's Deutschland sucht den Superstar.

In November 2012, Thomas Anders released a new solo album called Christmas for You.

Thomas Anders has stated that he was pleasantly surprised by the album's success, asserting that he is more popular abroad than in his home country, fully knowing that people would most likely be indifferent to a German language album by him.

On 1 May 2018, Thomas Anders was announced as a judge on the revival of the German version of X Factor.

Thomas Anders has one brother, Achim, and one sister, Tania.

Thomas Anders was married to Nora Balling from 1984 to 1999.