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Giovanni Zarrella (born 4 March 1978 in Hechingen) is a German-Italian singer and television presenter based in Germany. Most notably, he was a singer in the German pop group Bro'Sis from 2001 to 2006. Since 2021, Zarrella has hosted The Giovanni Zarrella Show .
Giovanni Zarrella was born in Hechingen in 1978 as the first child of Clementina and Bruno Zarrella. Like his sister and brother Stefano, he grew up bilingual German-Italian. He took piano and organ lessons at a young age and took singing lessons at the age of 15. In the early 1990s he lived with his family in Italy. At the age of 16 he founded his first band, Brotherhood.
He was one of an "international" sextet, later quintet, of singers formed from the TV series Popstars . [1] Previously a youth footballer in Italy and Germany, after the disbanding of Bro'Sis, Zarrella took part in TV celebrity football events [2] and subsequently became a TV sports presenter.
In 2023, he was a coach on The Voice of Germany .
In 2005, Zarrella married Brazilian television personality Jana Ina. Together, the couple has one son.
Gigliola Cinquetti is an Italian singer, songwriter, and television presenter.
Bro'Sis was a multicultural R&B/pop group from Germany, which was formed through the TV series Popstars – Du bist mein Traum in 2001. The group comprised the singers Ross Antony, Hila Bronstein, Shaham Joyce, Faiz Mangat, Indira Weis, and Giovanni Zarrella. The sextet achieved major success with hit singles "I Believe", "Do You", "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel", "Hot Temptation", and their first album Never Forget (2002).
Jana is the spelling of several unrelated given names. See Jaana for the Finnish and Estonian given name.
Italian Germans are German-born or naturalized citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Germany during the Italian diaspora, as well as the communities of Italians in Switzerland and, to a slightly lesser extent, Italians from South Tyrol. Most Italians moved to Germany for reasons of work, others for personal relations, study, or political reasons. Today, Italians in Germany form one of the largest Italian diasporas in the world and account for one of the largest immigrant groups in Germany.
The World League eSport Bundesliga was a German professional electronic sports league featuring the Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source and FIFA 06 series. It has its own TV-show, broadcast by the German television channel Deutsches Sportfernsehen. Jana Ina and Giovanni Zarrella are the hosts of the show. The only game that was played at the season World League eSport Bundesliga was FIFA 06. The competitors fought for prize money of €50,000. From December 2005 until May 2006 there was a postseason, in which prize money of €45,825 was paid out.
Hans Peter "Hansi" Müller is a German former footballer who played as a midfielder. Both his parents were of Danube Swabian descent that were displaced from Yugoslavia after World War II. His father was born in Bačka Palanka and his mother in Inđija, both towns part of the province Vojvodina in Serbia.
Artemis Gounaki is a Greek-German singer, vocal coach, songwriter, composer, and arranger who has done much of her work in Greek. Gounaki's father was born on the Greek island of Crete.
Popstars is a German reality television series that began its first installment on the RTL II network on 14 November 2000. Part of the international Popstars franchise, it originated from the New Zealand reality programme of the same name.
Ross Anthony Catterall, known by his stage name Ross Antony, is a British singer, entertainer and presenter based in Germany. He rose to fame as a member of the R&B/pop group Bro'Sis. Since the group disbanded in 2006, Antony has maintained a profile as a TV personality in Germany, culminating in his 2008 winning of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the German version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Indira Weis is a German singer and actress who rose to fame as a member of the R&B/Pop group Bro'Sis.
Jana Ina Zarrella is a Brazilian television personality and presenter based in Germany.
Darja Schabad is a vocalist and actress originally from Riga, Latvia.
The Voice of Germany is a German reality talent show created by John de Mol, based on the concept The Voice of Holland and its international series. It began airing on ProSieben and Sat.1 on 24 November 2011.
Zarrella is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
"Comanchero" is a song by Raggio Di Luna. It was written by Italian record producer Aldo Martinelli and Simona Zanini and released as a single in 1984 on Discotto S.A.S. It became a hit single in several European countries, reaching number 2 in Austria, number 3 in West Germany, number 4 in Switzerland, number 5 in France and number 17 in Italy.
Max-Him was an Italo disco project fronted by Florian Fadinger, the former manager of German DJ/producer Sven Väth. All of the singing on Max-Him's albums was allegedly done by Italian musician Massimo Vaccari, whilst Fadinger was the public image.
My Love was a top ten hit for Netherlands-based pop duo Rosy & Andres in 1976.
Hannes Stöhr is a German film director and screenwriter. He studied scriptwriting and directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1994 to 1999. In 2006 Stöhr was a Villa Aurora grant recipient and lived for six months in Los Angeles, California. Hannes speaks German, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. Stöhr is member of the European Filmacademy, lectures film at Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin and the Goethe Institute. He lives in Berlin.
Kieth Engen was an American operatic bass who was a member of Munich's Bavarian State Opera for decades. Although his career was based in Munich, he appeared internationally as a guest singer at major opera houses and festivals and performed and recorded many of Bach's Passion oratorios and cantatas, primarily with the conductor Karl Richter. He was born Keith Sheldon Engen in Frazee, Minnesota, and died in Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany at the age of 79. He was given the title of Kammersänger in 1962 and was a recipient of the Bavarian Order of Merit. In the mid-1950s he also had a brief parallel career as a pop singer under the pseudonym Stan Oliver.
The tenth season of the German singing competition The Masked Singer premiered on 6 April 2024 on ProSieben.
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