"Not the one who falls is a loser, but the one who doesn't stand up again" Thomas Anders Biography, prepared by Bolafik

Thomas Anders was born in Münstermaifeld, Germany on March 1, 1963 as Bernd Weidung. He started singing at age of 7 in the church chorus.

In the end of 1979 Thomas Anders won a music competition of the radio station "Radio Luxembourg", (a highly noted and respected competition in those days) and was offered a recording contract with CBS.

In 1980, at the age of 17, he released his first single "Judy". Several singles followed which were produced by Daniel David. Later this year Thomas went on tour with "Tommy's Teen Rock Show" across the Germany. In 1981 Thomas had his debut on TV in the Michael Schanze Show "Hatten sie heut? Zeit fur uns", where he performed the song "Du weinst um ihn".

In 1982 D. David was busy with his own records, so he introduced him to other producers, who later were famous with Silent Circle.

In 1983 producer Dieter Bohlen recorded a German cover version of the song "Pick up phone" (F.R. David). At that time Thomas was an artist at HANSA, (today BMG Berlin), Dieter asked him to come to the recording studio in Hamburg to record the song together. Dieter Bohlen was enthusiastic about his voice. As a result he produced several German songs with Thomas, for example "Wovon traumst Du denn?", which peaked at 16 on the German Pop-Charts, "Endstation Sehnsucht" and "Hei?kalter Engel" (German version of "Send Me An Angel" by Australian new-wave band Real Life).

In summer of 1984 Dieter aka Steve Benson decided to gain more international success and asked Thomas to try singing in English. As a HEADLINER they recorded a cover version in English of another Real Life’s hit “Catch Me I’m Falling” for Intersong label. Originally it wasn’t planned at all that Dieter became a part of the duet, so Intersong (Hansa) was searching for someone else, Dieter was supposed to write and produce the songs only. The next Thomas’ single “Es geht mir gut heut’ Nacht” (“Lucky Guy”) was recorded both in English and in German.

In autumn 1984, Dieter Bohlen thought out a new title for the project and wrote another song in English "You're my heart, you're my soul", which was the debut song for Dieter and Thomas as a duet. Modern Talking was born. "You're my heart, you're my soul" went to the top of the charts and remained there for 6 weeks. Hits like "Cheri Cheri Lady" and "Brother Louie" were followed. The songs of the Pop-Duo were a huge success worldwide, nearly every song became a hit and things happened really fast. Soon, Modern Talking was the most successful German Pop-Duo and they got plenty of gold and platinum records.

In autumn 1987 they broke up. Anders recorded six albums when he first pursued a solo career. Highly successful abroad between 1989 and 1995, he worked with well-known producers like Gus Dudgeon, Peter Wolf, Paul Muggleton & Mike Paxman and along with famous artists like Glen Meiderios, Judie Tzuke, Marta Sanchez, the Pointer Sisters and Three Degrees (with whom he sang a duet). Also he wrote the title song for an Argentinean series. These days he regularly thrills up to 85,000 fans per concert internationally in places like Cape Town, Hong Kong, Singapore, Santiago de Chile, Moscow etc.

In 1993 Thomas experienced something new, when he got a part in the Swedish Movie "Stockholm Marathon". He also wrote the title song for that movie. Lately he has been working on his new solo album for some time and plans to release it in the spring of 2004.

One half of German Pop Duo 'Modern Talking'.

Also known as a performing solo artist. He went on his own solo tour throughout foreign countries, like Kapstadt, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Santiago de Chile, Moscow, etc. He has performed in front of as many as 85,000 enthusiastic fans.

Also known as a music producer. He worked with IT-girls, T-Seven (ex-Mr President), TEARs, participants of the 'Big Brother' TV show and several German artists. With his projects he got #1 hits in Germany, Latin America and Russia.

Also known as a composer. Wrote songs for himself, Modern Talking, Engelbert Humperdink, Three Degrees, No Angels, T-Seven (ex-Mr President) and other artists. Composed music for several movies, such as "Stockholm Marathon" and "Phantomschmerz".

Has a son, Alexander Mick Weidung, born at 19:24 on June 27, 2002.

Not the one who falls is a loser, but the one who doesn't stand up again." (That's also his motto in life.). Height 5' 7?" (1.72 m)

(February 2004) He is again working on a solo career. The first album after the 2nd Modern Talking breakup is out in the end of February 2004.