Become One was a German boy/girl pop band. The six-members of the band were chosen by a casting German

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show called

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, a German version of the international

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franchise and hosted by Nova Meierhenrich on the German television channel

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. The band was formed in 2003 and had two singles and one album. The debut single with the winning song "I Don't Need Your Alibis". The single was produced by Michael Kersting and released the following week after the finale. It charted in Germany reaching number 16 staying 9 weeks in the German Official Singles Chart. It was also a hit in Switzerland and Austria where the show was also available. The band released their album ''1'' in January 2004. The album reached number 24 in Germany staying 4 weeks in the albums chart. A follow-up single "Come Clean" did poorly in sales. The band announced they were disbanding on 25 July 2004, after a series of concerts culminating at Freizeit-Land Geiselwind, near

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Members

The members (winning finalists from the series were: ;Males *Thomas Bopp (born 22 March 1981) *David Hernandez (24 April 1978) (earlier a dancer with the German girl band

No Angels No Angels are an all-female pop group from Germany, formed in 2000. Originally a quintet, consisting of band members Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, Vanessa Petruo, and Jessica Wahls, they originated on the debut season of th ...

) *Christopher Komm. (born 19 May 1983) *Sedat Türüc ürüç15 July 1978) ;Females *

Ji-In Cho Ji-In Cho (born 30 December 1976) is a German heavy metal singer of Korean descent. She has been the lead vocalist of the symphonic metal band Krypteria since December 2004 until their hiatus after her pregnancy. Following this, she became the ...

(born 30 December 1976) *Carolin Arnold (born 16 October 1978)

After split-up

Ji-In Cho

became part of the German the

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band

Krypteria And Then She Came is a rock music, rock band from Aachen, Germany. The band was formed as Krypteria, a symphonic gothic metal, gothic metal band. Originating from a 2001 "pop musical theatre studio project" of the same name, the idea was to use ...

in December 2004 and the band's lead vocalist and pianist. The band's single "Liberatio" was used for a charity campaign in aid of the tsunami victims in Southeast Asia. The band went on hiatus in 2012 and was reformed as And Then She Came in 2016.

Sedat Türüc

Sedat Türüc, the band member of Turkish origin went on to form the duo Meant 2 Be with Gunther Göbbel (also known as Geeno), a popular contestant who had reached Final 5 of another reality television series

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(DSDS) in 2003/2004 in its second season. The duo released their Latin-influenced single "Caramba!". Göbbel went on to form another band Lemon Ice, a German cover band with the rapper Jay Low. Sedat Türüc continued with a solo career turning his attention to the Turkish market and became a successful pop and dance star in Turkey and Turkish diaspora with a series of releases and music videos under the

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Sedat. Popular songs by him included "Bütün Kalbimle", "Horoz", "Tutmayin Beni" and as Sedat TRC in the dance hit "Hoppa" featuring D&G and Big Shafiq, amongst others. He released a studio album ''ASI'' in 2010.

Members

After split-up

Ji-In Cho

Sedat Türüc

Discography

Albums

Singles

References