Adel Tawil (born August 15, 1978 in Berlin, Germany), is a German singer, songwriter and producer. Besides his solo career, he is part of the popular German pop duo Ich + Ich, after being part earlier of the German boy band The Boyz.

Family background

Tawil was born in Germany. His father, Salah Tawil, is Egyptian and his mother, Fatima Tawil, is Tunisian. Tawil is the first born of three, having a younger brother, Hatem, and sister, Rascha. In 2011 he married his long-time girlfriend Jasmin Weber in a private ceremony in Berlin

Music career

During the end of the 1990s, Tawil was part of the German boyband The Boyz. Since 2004, he and Annette Humpe formed the duo known as Ich + Ich. They have released three albums, Ich + Ich (2005), Vom Selben Stern (2007) and Gute Reise (2009).

In 2007, Tawil teamed up with rapper Azad and released the song "Prison Break Anthem (Ich glaub' an dich)", which is the opening theme for the German version of Prison Break. Tawil has made another solo appearance with Tobias Schenke for the song "Niemand hat Gesagt".

In 2007, Tawil held three spots in the Top Ten with two released singles and one album. On November 8, 2013 he released his first solo album "Lieder" in Germany, and confirmed a Tour in the year 2014

Ich + Ich (German for I and I), also pronounced "Ich und Ich", is the name of a musical project by the German musicians Annette Humpe and Adel Tawil. They met in a Berlin recording studio in 2002 when Tawil sang on a production that Humpe had written. They have sold more than 2.6 million records in German-speaking nations.

Their first album, Ich + Ich, appeared on April 18, 2005, and two of its singles ("Du erinnerst mich an Liebe" and "Dienen") reached the German Top 10. The second album Vom selben Stern released June 29, 2007, reached No. 1 in some charts. The first single of the album with the same name also reached the Top 10, too, along with the second and third singles ("Stark" and "So soll es bleiben", with all three singles being certified platinum in Germany). This second album has sold more than 1,000,000 copies and has been certified platinum in both Austria and Germany. The album also spawned two more less-successful singles: "Nichts bringt mich runter" and "Wenn ich tot bin".

On November 13, 2009, their third album, Gute Reise, was released, reaching once again the top of the German albums chart. Its first single, "Pflaster", became the band's first No.1 single in Germany. In 2010, their single "So soll es bleiben" appeared in the official X Factor video game for the Wii games console.