Capital: € 5.5 million
Age: 45
Born: 02/10/1975
Country of origin: Germany
Source of wealth: Rapper, entrepreneur
Last updated: 2022

Short introduction

Savas Yuderi, higher acknowledged through his degree call Kool Savas, is one of the maximum a hit rappers in Germany and is one of the founders of the German rap scene. His solo albums, in addition to the collaboration projects, had been very a hit commercially. Savas is taken into consideration the co-founding father of German hip hop.

Early existence

Kool Savas became born in Aachen in February 1975. His father comes from Turkey, his mom is German. When Savas became 12 months old, the own circle of relatives moved again to Turkey, in which he grew up till he became 11 years old. The father, who became politically energetic, became sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in Turkey, and his mom then fled again to Germany. They moved to Berlin Kreuzberg, his father observed after being launched from prison. Savas became additionally politically energetic in his teenagers and participated in a few demonstrations towards neo-Nazis and the deportation of immigrants.

In his teenagers, Savas Yuderi commenced rapping in English beneathneath the pseudonym “Jurk”. Savas took element in hip-hop workshops withinside the 1990s. There he stuck the eye of the rapper Fumanschu, who supported him from then on. After journeying the united states together, Savas determined to alternate his degree call to “Kool Savas” and preserve rapping in German.

Together with Fumanschu and Justus Jonas, he based the organization MOR, which stands for “Masters of Rap”. Kool Savas additionally collaborated with the rapper Taktlos and completed as a duo “Westberlin Masculin”. In 1999, “LMS / Schwule Rapper”, the primary solo unmarried through Kool Savas, became launched. This became produced and launched beneathneath the label “Put Da Needle To Da Records”. The 2d unmarried “King of Rap” became launched in 2000 and attracted extra attention.

The subsequent yr the rap combination MOR launched the album “NLP-Neuro-Linguistic Programming”, as did the album “House & Boat” with the singer Valezka. The latter added Kool Savas’ first constitution success.

After this success, Savas separated from his label. In 2002 Savas switched to Sony BMG and based the sub-label “Optik Records” there. This is in which the a hit collaboration with manufacturer Mel Beatz and DJ Nicon began. His maximum well-known protégé Eko Fresh became additionally signed beneathneath this label.

Eko Fresh left the label and his mentor a yr later and produced his very own tracks with the singer Valezka. The separation of the 2 rappers became delivered to the fore withinside the media with the disstracks “The Billing” and “The Judgment”, a showpiece of a German disstrack.

Despite, or possibly due to the fact of, the disputes with Eko Fresh, 2002 became a a hit yr for Savas. The album “The pleasant day of my existence” became capable of hit wide variety 6 at the German album charts.

In 2004 Savas became capable of vicinity the album “The pleasant days are numbered” once more at the charts.

Optic Records advanced into one of the maximum a hit hip hop labels in Germany. With the albums “Die John Bello Story” and “John Bello Story II” a hit team albums, the rapper beneathneath settlement with Optic Records, had been launched. The solo album through Kool Savas “Tot oder Lebendig” became additionally launched in 2007. In 2009 the Optic Records label became closed.

In the years that observed, matters went uphill for Kool Savas. He based the label “Essah Entertainment”. The 1/3 solo album “Aura”, which became launched in 2011, became capin a position to overcome the charts at no 1 for the primary time. The collaboration with Xavier Naidoo in 2012 delivered out the album “Split Personality” and is, so far, the maximum a hit album through Kool Savas. The fourth solo album “Martyr” reached no 1 once more. In 2017 “Royal Bunker” have become a a hit album. It is the end result of operating with Sido.

His maximum latest album “KKS” commenced at no 1. The album, that is continually geared toward lyrics, yet again proves the super significance Kool Savas locations on the choice of beats. His strengths lie in combining state-of-the-art rhyme chains in mixture with chart-well matched earwig hooks.

Career highlghts

He acquired gold statistics for the albums: “The pleasant day of my existence”, “Aura” and “Split personality”.

And the gold report for the unmarried: “Don’t appearance again”.

Number 1 withinside the charts with the album “Split personality”, “Aura”, “Martyr” and “KKS”.

In 2003 he received the VIVA Comet withinside the Hip Hop National category.

As the primary musician in Germany, he acquired the TRL Golden Tape award from MTV.

Regular awards are given through the German hip-hop mag Hiphop.de.

Famous quotes

“Do I truly should show whatever to you?”

“I handiest observed that there are limits in my skull, that’s why I went this way…”

“The which means of existence is to make feel of your existence.”

Amazing facts

His first call Savas means “war” in Turkish. His artist call Kool Savas can consequently be freely translated as “bloodless war”.

Kool Savas has been promoting its very own hookah tobacco brand “Essah German Tobacco” in view that 2017.

Kool Savas is concerned in lots of social projects. Among different matters, at PETA, the CanNObis marketing campaign, towards drugs, specifically cannabis, and withinside the project “My neighborhood, my idea”, wherein younger humans cope with the subject of bullying and racism. He helps the Viva con Aqua marketing campaign and the Visions for youngsters association.

Kool Savas is a vegetarian.