Nemo

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Nemo

Break The Code

Presented by Live Nation
16.03.2025 Cologne, Live Music Hall
Admission 19:00 hrs | Start 20:00 hrs

Nemo was the first non-binary person to win the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland in 2024 with the song "The Code" (50 million streams on Spotify and number 1 in the Swiss single charts) and broke all boundaries in music, gender and aesthetics. Between rap, pompous and theatrical pop and operatic vocals and with dizzying dance interludes, the performance in Malmö made Nemo world-famous overnight. Nemo had already achieved gold and platinum status in Switzerland at the age of 18, was able to establish the songs "Ke Bock", "Du" and "Himalaya" in the charts and has already received five Swiss Music Awards, further consolidating the success of the non-binary artist. In spring 2025, Nemo will embark on a European headline tour and can also be seen live in Germany and Austria.

Nemo Mettler was born in the canton of Bern in 1999 and learned to play the violin, piano and drums at an early age. At the age of ten, Nemo received lessons from a voice coach before going on to study jazz and pop solo singing at the Zurich University of the Arts in 2017 to further develop his own voice. After his first roles in musicals from 2012 and reaching the semi-finals of the Swiss VBT rap tournament (2015), Nemo went viral on social media in 2016 with his appearance on SRF Virus (#Cypher) and became instantly famous. Nemo's debut EP "Clownfisch" (2015) reached number 95 in the Swiss charts, while the single "Du" entered the singles charts at number 4 in 2017. In addition to the EP "Fundbüro" (2016) and other singles, a change process began in 2020: Nemo now also writes and produces for other artists, crosses the Swiss border and releases songs in English ("Dance With Me") as well as the EP "Whatever Feels Right" (2022). The lyrics focus on themes from Nemo's own life reality: gender identity, mental health and the search for a place in the world - an allusion to the artist's name, which translates from Latin as "nobody". Nemo moved to Berlin in 2021, came out as non-binary in 2023 and qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 in the second semi-final with the song "The Code", which Nemo won, giving Switzerland the title for the third time in total 36 years after Céline Dion's victory in 1988. With a clear message behind the winning single "The Code", Nemo has become an icon of the LGBTQIA+ community, who find in Nemo an approachable person with deeply personal and emotional lyrics - lyrics that give courage and offer a high potential for identification, especially for young people. Nemo now lives in London and has not only broken his own code, but also laid the foundations for a global career and his first European headline tour with his ESC victory.

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