Renato Šimunović (born 28 June 1994), also known as RIN (), is a German-born

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Life

RIN's parents both are Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina. His mother originally comes from

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and his father from

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. In the 1970s, his father came to Germany as a

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. For this reason, RIN only has a

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instead of a

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one. He grew up in

Bietigheim-Bissingen Bietigheim-Bissingen (locally: ''Biedge-Bissenge'') is the second-largest town in the district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with 42,515 inhabitants in 2007. It is situated on the river Enz and the river Metter, close to its conflu ...

, which is located near

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, Germany. He graduated from the

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there. RIN's parents have a restaurant in

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...

, which is a city next to

Career

In 2012, RIN started to make music with the rapper Caz. In the summer of 2015, he first published two songs called "Ljubav/Beichtstuhl" (engl. Love/ Confessional), which caught the attention of the producer The Breed from the label Alles oder Nix (engl. Everything or nothing). Together they produced an

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(EP), however the EP was never made public because of different visions they had regarding the EP. Shortly after that, RIN met Max, who worked for the Berliner Independent-Label ‘Live from Earth’. The label supported RIN since then. Through the label, RIN also met the Austrian rapper

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, with whom he recorded the

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''Mafia der Liebe'' (engl. Mafia of love), but the EP was not released. As the album's lead single,

released the song "Bianco" together with RIN on 12 May 2016. The song became the summer hit of 2016 and also was voted single of the year in the annual charts of ''

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'' magazine. In the beginning of 2017, RIN's songs were in the official

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for the first time. Since 2017, RIN has been signed by the Label Division Recordings, which had been founded by the selfmade-record-

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and the Factory-

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Markus Weicker and Michael Weicker. On the 5th of August, the official list of songs of his debut album, EROS, were published. The album, with its 15 songs, was released on the first of September 2017. Three months later, RIN won th
1 Live Krone
(the biggest award in the German radio business) with his album ‘EROS’ in the category best album. On 22 June 2018, his mixtape ‘Planet Megatron’ was released. His next single ‘Dior 2001’ made it to the top of the

and the

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and he also received a Golden Record in Germany and a Platin one in

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. In 2019, he published various songs that were ranked high in the

, one of them is called "Up In Smoke". Moreover, he announced his second album, ''Nimmerland'' (engl. Neverland) by releasing another song, called "Fabergé", on 27 September 2019. The album launched on 6 December of the same year with a so-called "deluxe-box" that was created in cooperation with

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. On 29 October 2021, his third studio album was released, ''Kleinstadt'' (engl. small town).

Discography

Studio Albums

Singles

Accolades

HipHop.de Awards
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External links

Präsenz
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RIN
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:RIN Living people German rappers 1994 births People from Bietigheim-Bissingen German people of Croatian descent