Bushido

Born Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi in Bonn in 1978, the artist celebrated his first major success in 2003 with his debut album ‘Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline’: a longplayer that is still considered one of the most influential and important works of German-language gangsta rap, but which was banned in 2005 due to its misogynistic and discriminatory lyrics - a small foretaste of the many scandals and controversies that surrounded the polarising singer over the following two decades.

All the debates surrounding him and the content of his songs did not harm his success. All of his eight studio albums released between 2007 and 2018 reached number one in the German charts. On his farewell tour in 2024, Bushido once again performed the greatest successes of his career and thrilled around 150,000 fans in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - which impressed the rapper so much that he is now following up with another farewell tour, which Bushido himself says will be ‘even more powerful, even more powerful, even more blatant’. After that, his career will really be over. At least that's what he says.