19 Facts About Xavier Naidoo

Xavier Naidoo is a founding member of German band Sohne Mannheims, and started two record labels, Beats Around the Bush and Naidoo Records.

Xavier Naidoo has been the subject of multiple controversies due to the content of his songs, political statements, adherence to conspiracy theories, propagation of far-right talking points as well as his use of homophobic, antisemitic, and racist tropes.

Xavier Naidoo was with Sohne Mannheims earlier before he became famous, after his popularity increased he went back to the band and wanted to help them to become famous too, which worked.

Xavier Naidoo joined groups like Brothers Keepers and the charity project in early 2013.

In 2013, Xavier Naidoo released "Eye Opener" on the vocal collaboration album "Features" by Kris Menace.

On 19 November 2015, Xavier Naidoo was announced as the German representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.

Xavier Naidoo has spoken at a meeting of the Reichsburgerbewegung, denies the legal existence of the Federal Republic of Germany and claims Germany is a country occupied by enemy, foreign forces.

Xavier Naidoo has blamed the Rothschild family for Germany's 20th century history.

Xavier Naidoo gave similar opinions in a live interview on ARD-Morgenmagazin, public service breakfast television in 2015.

In March 2020 two video clips of Xavier Naidoo were released on social media, showing him singing one of his songs in the aftermath of the anti-migrant 2018 Chemnitz protests with altered lyrics.

Xavier Naidoo was fired by the TV-station RTL where he worked as a judge on the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar.

Xavier Naidoo regarded the Fridays for Future movement as orchestrated by the Antichrist.

Xavier Naidoo denies the existence of the COVID-19 pandemic and is a strong opponent of the obligation to wear facemasks in certain public places, that was introduced by the German government.

Xavier Naidoo voiced these opinions in a video he published via Telegram in July 2020.

On 21 April 2022, in a video posted to his social media accounts, Xavier Naidoo distanced himself from radical and antisemitic views and apologised for previous utterances.

Xavier Naidoo said that the war Russia is waging against Ukraine has opened his eyes since his wife is originally Ukrainian and he had to take in refugees from her family.

Xavier Naidoo's music has been claimed to feature a utopian, pan-theistic ideology through which he expressed his own political anxieties and stances.

Xavier Naidoo's lyrics have featured anti-semitic slurs and homophobic sentiments.

Not only did Xavier Naidoo experiment with sounds from around the black diaspora, notably working with RZA, but was a member of Brothers Keepers, an explicitly Afro-German and explicitly political collective.