Max Giesinger (34) and Michael Schulte (32) have been an integral part of the German music scene for years. Now the two singers have teamed up and released the duet “More To This Life”. The two share a long-standing friendship that arose from participating in a TV show together.
In 2011, both took part in the first season of the music show “The Voice of Germany”. Giesinger took fourth place, Schulte was third. The finalists then founded a men’s shared flat, which was to last for many years, first in Mannheim and later in the middle of Hamburg’s Kiez.
The joint song is about “that in the process of getting older or growing up, you somehow start taking everything far too seriously, that you only think about tomorrow, develop fears and actually lose all the qualities that being a child is so make out,” explains Max Giesinger about the single. The idea for this came about at the beginning of the year.
“We always waited for the right time and now it has come. The song came about relatively quickly and we both thought it was pretty awesome right away,” said Schulte. “More To This Life” actually represents exactly the style “that we’ve always had when we’ve made music together,” he adds. “It was always a bit more acoustic, mostly just two guitars and two voices. That’s what we wanted to capture.”
The video for the song premiered on Friday. In the evening there was a joint live appearance on TV, which catapulted the two singers back to their beginnings: “The Voice of Germany”.
“It’s pretty nice that Max and I can now sing our first single together where it all started,” says Michael Schulte happily. “We met in the very first season of ‘The Voice of Germany’ and have since gone through thick and thin together, both musically and as friends, over the past ten years.”
The two supported each other in difficult times. “We also experienced some setbacks together, for example being forgotten a year after the casting show. Fewer people came to the tour and we were no longer recognized on the street,” said Giesinger of the German Press Agency.
“TVOG” was an “amazing experience for her, but also a turbulent time that brutally welded us together,” Max Giesinger looks back. “It was a healthy and almost fraternal competition that pushed us both because we wanted to outdo each other. We probably wouldn’t be where we are if we hadn’t met each other.”
