Marco Matias (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Marco Matias (musician)

Portuguese singer

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1975

Place of Birth: Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: singer

Nationality: Portugal

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Marco Matias (musician)

  • Marco Matias is the son of Portuguese immigrants who came to Germany in the 1970s.
  • At the age of ten, he had his first experiences on stage when he was performing for a game circus, a project that arose in co-operation with Caritas and endeavored to inspire children for creativity.
  • He himself got a lot of ideas out of this project.
  • Shortly afterwards, he founded a duet with his brother Jorge and they had a lot of success presenting their songs – pop, rock and South American titles – at various private events. The first band he joined when he was fifteen was called ‘Lua Cheia’.
  • He gained his first studio experiences with his school band ‘The Basement Kids’ during the production of his first CD ‘Cry For Peace’.
  • He then passed his higher school certificate examination and began his studies at the University of Cologne.
  • But he never gave up his music; he worked as a backing vocalist, participated in jam sessions and had many other musical activities. At that time, he got in contact with the Cologne A cappella ensemble ‘Voice Sings’ with whom he toured a lot. In 2000, Marco and his band ‘Atlanticos’ participated in an ‘international Festival For Young People Of The Portuguese Communities 2000’.
  • The festival was broadcast live to the Portuguese speaking territories all over the world.
  • Portuguese people living in Australia, Macao, Brazil and other territories watched his performance and Marco and his band received a tremendous reaction from the televoters and made third place.
  • They produced an album in Portuguese and were doing a lot of TV-Shows and radio performances in the following years 2001 and 2002. In 2003, he was invited to a casting called ‘The German Voice 2003’.
  • He was elected from among 12,000 candidates and entered the final with nine other competitors.
  • In that final he became second. ‘A Miracle Of Love’ is the title of the song written by Ralph Siegel that Marco performed, together with Nicole Süßmilch, during the German pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 and they again made a very good second place. In 2006, Marco competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 as a part of the group six4one, representing Switzerland, with the song, "If We All Give A Little".

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