TOP TEN: Santos, Nico

He was born as Nico Wellenbrink in Bremen, Germany. His father is actor Egon Wellenbrink who among other had a very famous advertisement in Germany for a coffee company. Nico grew up in Spain as his family moved after his birth to Mallorca. He visited the elementary school in Es Capdellá where he learned Spanish and Catalan. At the age of 5 Nico recorded along with his younger sister audio dramas for children. He took piano lessons at the age of 6 and at a young age he performed at festivals. He recorded cover songs and uploaded them onto Youtube. In 2012 he had a short stint with US rapper KY as KY & Nico. They went their seperate ways in 2013.

After getting some smaller success with earlier collabs he released his single „Rooftop“ in 2017. It became a huge hit in Germany where it peaked at #5 in the Single Charts. It got the same result in Switzerland and reached #2 in Austria. In 2018 Nico Santos released his debut album „Streets Of Gold“. It peaked at #25 in Germany. Two more singles reached the German Single Charts.

In 2019 he released a collab with German songstress Lena called „Better“. It reached the Top 20 in Germany and Austria. In 2020 he released a collab with Topic that helped him back into the German Charts. He was one of the participants of the TV-Show „Sing meinen Song“ that year as well and released his 2nd album „Nico Santos“. It peaked at #3 in Germany, #2 in Switzerland and #5 in Austria. The same month he won the Free Eurovision Song Contest, a project put together by Stephan Raab. Recently he was a coach in ‚The Voice of Germany‘.

Here now are my favorite 10 songs of him so far, hope you enjoy! What are your favorites? Write in the comments and discuss this ranking.

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