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Shindy | |
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 Shindy in 2020 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Schindler |
| Born | 7 September 1988 Bad-Canstadt-Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Genres | |
| Occupation | Rapper |
| Years active | 2012–2017, 2019–present |
| Labels | Friends with Money, ersguterjunge (previously) |
Michael Schindler (born 7 September 1988), better known by his stage name Shindy, is a German rapper. He is currently signed to record label Sony Music Entertainment after leaving Friends with Money and ersguterjunge .
Schindler was born to a German father and a Greek mother. He spent his childhood working in a restaurant run by his Greek grandparents. He began rapping at age 14 and by 16 was noticed by Greek-German rapper Jaysus who invited him to contribute some tracks with him.
In 2012, Shindy was signed to Kay One's label. He gained popular fame through Kay One's album Prince of Belvedair where Shindy was featured on some tracks. Shindy's big popularity came when featured on Kay One's chant in support of the Germany national football team titled "Finale wir kommen". After one more single together, he parted ways in unfriendly terms with Kay One allying himself with Bushido and Bushido's rap label ersguterjunge, [1] at the same time issuing a diss track against Kay One.
On 21 June 2013, he released the single "Immer immer mehr" with Bushido and Sido, which was followed by the release of his debut album NWA [2] on July 12, 2013, with the initials denoting "Nie wieder arbeiten" (meaning "never work again"). The album topped the German and Austrian charts and reaching Top 3 in Switzerland.
After two years of absence from the media, mainly due to disputes with his old record label, Shindy came back with the lead single DODI from his album Drama released later that year. Shortly after he released the songs Road2Goat and Affalterbach. With the release of the single Nautilus on 11 May 2019, Shindy gained much more mainstream recognition. The song officially entered the charts on 17 May 2019 and reached number 2 on the German charts. [3] In 2021, he announced the release of his next studio album In meiner Blüte for November, but delayed the release because he had problems with his label.
In 2022, Shindy signed with Sony Music Entertainment and again announced the release of In meiner Blüte, this time for of September 2022. He released the two singles Mami Freestyle and Hot Summer, but the album was delayed again and later released on 16 July 2023. Between March and May 2023 he released the three singles Geld machen Jung, Bayern Freestyle and Cent'anni. The album debuted at fourth place on the German charts. It also had an guest appearance from Nate Dogg on the track How Come?. The posthumous feature came about through Sony Music's contacts with rapper Daz Dillinger, who was a companion of Nate Dogg. [4]
| Year | Award | Nomination | Work | Result | Ref. |
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| 2013 | HipHop.de Awards | Best Newcomer National | Himself | Won | [5] |
| 2015 | Echo Awards | Hip-Hop / Urban National | FVCKB!TCHE$GETMONE¥ | Nominated | [6] |
| HipHop.de Awards | Best Producer National | Himself & Bushido, Beatzarre, Djorkaeff | Won | [7] | |
| Best Punchline | G$D | Nominated | |||
| 2016 | Best Producer National | Himself & OZ | Nominated | [8] | |
| 2017 | Echo Awards | Hip-Hop / Urban National | Dreams | Nominated | [9] |
| 2019 | HipHop.de Awards | Best Song National | DODI | Nominated | [10] |
| Lyricist of the Year | Himself | Nominated | |||
| Best Album National | Drama | Nominated | |||
| Best Line | DODI | Won | |||
| Bravo Otto Awards | Hip-Hop National | Himself | Nominated | [11] | |
| Hype Awards | Hype Video | DODI | Won | [12] | |
| Best Line | Won | ||||
| 2020 | HipHop.de Awards | Best Live-Act National | Himself | Nominated | [13] |
| Best Line | 554 | Nominated | |||
| 2022 | Best Song National | Hot Summer | Pending | [14] | |
| Beat of the Year | Mami Freestyle(prod. by Efro) | Pending |
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