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Tokio Hotel

Tokio Hotel. Paula Farrugia Form 4.5. Tokio Hotel is a German  band  founded in  Magdeburg,Germany  in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz , guitarist Tom Kaulitz , drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing.

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Tokio Hotel

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  1. Tokio Hotel Paula Farrugia Form 4.5

  2. TokioHotel is a German band founded in Magdeburg,Germany in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bassist Georg Listing. The quartet have scored four number one singles and have released three number one albums in their native country, selling nearly 5 million CDs and DVDs there.[ After recording an unreleased demo-CD under the name "Devilish" and having their contract with Sony BMG Germany terminated, the band released their first German-language album, Schrei, as Tokio Hotel on Universal Music Germany in 2005. Schrei sold more than half a million copies worldwide and spawned four top five singles in both Germany and Austria. In 2007, the band released their second German album Zimmer 483and their first English album Scream which have combined album sales of over one million copies worldwide and helped win the band their first MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct. The former, Zimmer 483, spawned three top five singles in Germany while the latter, Scream, spawned two singles that reached the top twenty in new territories such as Portugal, Spain and. In September 2008, they won in the US their first  MTV Video Music Award  for Best New Artist. In October 2008, they won four awards including Best International Artist and Song of the year at Los Premios MTV Latinoamerica held in Mexico.

  3. Tokio Hotel became the first German band ever to win an award at the MTV VMAs and also at the MTV Latin America Awards. They also picked up the Headliner award at the  MTV Europe Music Awards 2008  held in  Liverpool on 6 November 2008 and the Award for Best Group on 5 November 2009 at the  MTV Europe Music Award  held in Berlin.

  4. Tom Kaulitz Tom Kaulitz was born on September 1, 1989 in Leipzig ten minutes before his identical twin brother, Bill. His style of dress is baggy Hip-Hop clothes, with dreadlocks and large New Era hats, the only one of the band to do so. As of September 2007, Tom was using Gibsonguitars and Mesa/Boogie Rectifier Heads with Mesa Boogie Rectifier 4x12 cabinets. He has stated his musical influences to be Aerosmith and German hip-hop such as Samy Deluxe.

  5. Bill Kaulitz Bill Kaulitz was born on September 1, 1989 in Leipzig, East Germany ten minutes after his identical twin brother Tom. His parents, Simone and Jörg Kaulitz, separated when Bill and his brother were seven and eventually his mother began dating again. After being in a relationship with him for 12 years, Simone married Gordon Trümper, a guitarist from the German rock band Fatun, on August 1, 2009. Bill showed an early interest in singing, as did Tom in playing guitar. Trümper noticed the twins' musical inclinations, and helped the twins to start their own band. According to Bill in several interviews, he and Tom started writing music at the age of seven.

  6. Georg Listing Georg Listing was born on 31 March 1987. His hometown is Halle. He began playing bass when he was thirteen-years-old, and, as of September 2007, uses a Sandberg bass. He has said that his playing style was heavily influenced by Flea of Red Hot Chilli Peppers,and other musical influences include Die Ärzte and Oasis.

  7. Gustav Schäfer Gustav Schäfer was born on 8 September 1988 in his hometown of Magdeburg, and has an older sister. Gustav has been playing the drums since he was five. His musical influences include Metallica, Joe Cocker and Rod Stewart.

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