Gunther Göbbel (born 6 May 1979DSDS-diekandidaten: Portrait - Gunther Göbbel
in Nuremberg, West GermanyStars2meet.de: lemon Ice biography
) is a German singer who took part in second season (2003-2004) of ''

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'' (DSDS) series coming 5th overall in 12 finalist contestants. After a brief time as the duo Meant 2 Be, he became part of the German cover songs duo

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as Geeno alongside rapper Jay Low with a string of cover hits like " Stand By Me", " Only You", "

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". After the break-up of the group, he continued his solo music singing career as Geeno Fabulous and DJing (sometimes as DJ GF) and as record producer (under his name Gunther Göbbel). He had a comeback in 2016 with a revitalized version of "Stand by Me" under the new adopted name Geeno Smith.

In ''DSDS'' (2003)

Gunther Göbbel applied for the 2nd season of ''

'' in 2003. Göbbel did not qualify to the top 13, but was brought back as a "wildcard" and advanced then to final 5 when he was eliminated. His performances during ''DSDS'' were: *Nov. 22, 2003 (1st live show - "My Pop Idol") - Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) from Backstreet Boys - Safe *Nov. 29, 2002 (2nd live show - "Rock and Pop Ballads) - Careless Whisper from

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- Safe *Dec. 13, 2002 (3rd live show) - "My year of birth") - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough from Michael Jackson - Safe *Dec. 20, 2002 (4th live show) - "Christmas") - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town from Tony Bennett - Safe *Jan. 10, 2003 (5th live show "Elton John / Madonna") - Candle in the Wind from

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Meant 2 Be (2004)

After the show, he joined forces with Turkish singer Sedat Türüc who was in the formation Become One to form a duo under the name Meant 2 Be stylized sometimes as M2B. They released one single "Caramba" in September 2004 before splitting up.

Lemon Ice (2004-2009)

He founded the record label Utopic Music. In 2006, he formed the German cover duo group

, alongside rapper Jay Low. Gunther Göbbel was on lead vocals and was known as Geeno (at times Geeno Fabulous). The band had a string of hits in Germany and Austria and one hit single in Finland. They also released their debut and only studio album entitled ''One'' in 2007 containing many of their earlier cover hits " Stand by Me" ( Ben E. King), " Only You" ( Yazoo), "

" ( Milli Vanilli) and "

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Solo career (2009-present)

After the break-up of the group in 2009, he continued with a solo career named Geeno Fabulous, or just DJ GF. In 2009 he was signed to the German dance club label Andorfine. He released a series of collaborations featuring hip hop artist Young Sixx including ''I'm Famous'' (2009), ''I'm So Horny'' (2010), ''That Girl'' (2011). He was featured in a number of releases of DJ and producer Crew 7 including "This Time" (2010), "Billy Jean" (2011), "I Go to Rio" and "F**k It" (2013). In 2013, he was featured in Crew 7's "Wild", a hit single that reached number 1 in the Deutsche Dance Charts in December 2013. Other releases include the 2011 single "Rhythm Is All That I Need" featuring Raheema. In the 2010s he worked as a DJ and music producer with his own label Utopic Music. In his hometown of Nuremberg he was a Resident DJ in the Diskothek Goija Redbull.de: Interview with Goija DJ Geeno Fabulous
until it closed in 2015 and then switched to the Indabahn club. Geeno Fabulous was also active in radio mixing launching "Energy Club Royal", a 2-hour radio show on Radio Energy Nürnberg. In 2011, he co-produced with Christian Greiner, the Chillout Rockerz electronic future jazz album ''Play for Pleasure. Finest Lounge Music'' released on Consens Music / Sony Music Entertainment. He was credited as Gunther Göbbel rather than Geeno Fabulous on the recording. In 2015, he adopted the stage name Geeno Smith and released some songs online like "Future Cybersex", "Simple Sounds" and "I Don´t Wanna Know". In 2016 he appeared on the

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show ''Silvestershow Willkommen 2016'' performing a new version of " Stand by Me" which he had recorded together with the Brazilian Pachanga singer Jay del Alma with lyrics partly translated into Spanish and giving the song a Latin twist. The version gained fame and was officially released on January 8, 2016, with his Tropical House mix rising to the top of the iTunes download charts and reaching No. 16 on the Official German Singles Chart.

Discography

(For discography in

, see discography section)

Albums

EPs

Singles

References

External links

Geeno Fabulous FacebookDJ GF FacebookGeeno-Fabulous on Discogs.com
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