Thomas Godoj

Thomas Godoj，1978年3月6日出生，波兰裔。
　　作为2007年德国选秀节目第五届“德国偶像”（DSDS——Deutschland sucht den Superstar）的候选人，从海选起就受到所有三位评委的一致认同，始终具有超高人气，一路比赛下来几乎没有遇到什么阻碍，领先每周的投票，最终夺得冠军！
　　颇具唱功的Thomas Godoj之前就自组乐队过，已然颇有名气。凭借其深情质感，抒情摇滚路线，自从在德国全国选秀比赛中大放异彩，Sony BMG唱片公司首先为其操刀发行首张新专辑。
by Jason Birchmeier
Thomas Godoj is a Polish-German pop/rock singer/songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the fifth season of the reality show Deutschland Sucht den Superstar. Born on March 6, 1978, in Rybnik, Poland, he moved with his family to Recklinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in 1988. While a student at Bochum University of Applied Sciences, where he studied civil engineering, Godoj performed in a series of local rock bands. This experience inspired him to audition for the fifth season of Deutschland Sucht den Superstar, a Pop Idol-style reality show. Not only was he selected to appear on the show; he proceeded to win the entire 2007-2008 competition, performing Sunrise Avenue's "Fairytale Gone Bad," Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars," and a song of his own, "Love Is You," on the final episode. A recording contract with Sony BMG resulted, and Godoj's full-length solo album debut, Plan A! (2008), was released later in the year. The album was a smash hit, topping the album charts of Germany and Austria and going all the way to number three in Switzerland; moreover, "Love Is You" -- the song he had performed on the final episode of Deutschland Sucht den Superstar -- was also a smash hit, topping the singles charts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lithuania, and Luxemburg.