# Adel Tawil

Adel Salah Mahmoud Eid El-Tawil (born 15 August 1978) is a German singer, songwriter and producer. Besides his solo career, he is part of the popular German duo Ich + Ich and a former member of the boy band The Boyz.

## Early life

Tawil was born in Berlin. His father Salah Tawil is Egyptian and his mother is Tunisian. He is the first born of three, having a younger brother, Hatem, and a sister, Rascha.

## Musical 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. He 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 8 November 2013, he released his first solo album, Lieder, in Germany, and also toured in 2014.

## Personal life

In 2011, Tawil married his longtime girlfriend Jasmin Weber in a private ceremony in Berlin. In 2014, they were separated. He currently lives with his girlfriend Lena.

## Discography
### Studio albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications :
| Title | Album details | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | GER | AUT | SWI | Certifications |
| Lieder | Released: 7 November 2013 Label: Vertigo Berlin Formats: CD, digital download | 4 | 6 | 17 | BVMI: 5× Gold IFPI AUT: Platinum IFPI SWI: Gold |
| So schön anders | Released: 21 April 2017 Label: Island Formats: CD, digital download | 1 | 5 | 3 | BVMI: Gold |
| Alles lebt | Released: 21 June 2019 Label: Okapi, BMG Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 7 | 17 | 7 | |
| Spiegelbild | Released: 3 March 2023 Label: Okapi, BMG Formats: CD, digital download, streaming | 7 | 50 | 33 | |

### Singles

As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Certifications | Album |
| Title | Year | GER | AUT | SWI | Certifications | Album |
| "Lieder" | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 6 | BVMI: 2× Platinum IFPI AUT: Gold IFPI SWI: Platinum | Lieder |
| "Aschenflug" (featuring Prinz Pi & Sido) | 2013 | 18 | 33 | 41 | | Lieder |
| "Weinen" | 2014 | 57 | — | 38 | | Lieder |
| "Zuhause" (featuring Matisyahu) | 2014 | 23 | 6 | 64 | BVMI: Gold | Lieder |
| "Kartenhaus" | 2014 | 78 | — | — | | Lieder |
| "Wenn du liebst" | 2015 | — | — | — | | Lieder |
| "Unsere Lieder" | 2015 | 33 | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "Bis hier und noch weiter" (featuring KC Rebell & Summer Cem) | 2017 | 23 | 72 | 97 | | So schön anders |
| "Ist da jemand" | 2017 | 12 | 9 | 3 | BVMI: Gold | So schön anders |
| "Gott steh mir bei" | 2017 | — | — | — | | So schön anders |
| "Eine Welt eine Heimat" (featuring Youssou N’Dour & Mohamed Mounir) | 2017 | — | — | — | | So schön anders |
| "So schön anders" | 2017 | — | — | — | | So schön anders |
| "Polarlichter" (featuring MoTrip) | 2017 | — | — | — | | So schön anders |
| "Flutlicht" | 2018 | — | — | — | | Non-album single |
| "Tu m'appelles" (featuring Peachy) | 2019 | 48 | — | 30 | | Alles lebt |
| "Neues Ich" | 2019 | — | — | — | | Alles lebt |
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak positions | Peak positions | Peak positions | Certifications | Album |
| Title | Year | GER | AUT | SWI | Certifications | Album |
| "Niemand hat gesagt" (Tobias Schenke featuring Kane) | 2003 | 85 | — | — | | The Dome Vol. 26 |
| "Prison Break Anthem (Ich glaub' an dich)" (Azad featuring Adel Tawil) | 2007 | 1 | 12 | 13 | BVMI: Gold | Blockschrift |
| "Stadt" (Cassandra Steen featuring Adel Tawil) | 2009 | 2 | 3 | 31 | BVMI: Platinum | Darum leben wir |
| "Der Himmel soll warten" (Sido featuring Adel Tawil) | 2010 | 2 | 4 | 28 | BVMI: Gold | MTV Unplugged Live aus'm MV |
| "Ich will nur dass du weißt" (SDP featuring Adel Tawil) | 2015 | 15 | 41 | 41 | BVMI: 3× Gold | Zurück in die Zukunst |
| "Zuhause ist die Welt noch in Ordnung" (Sido featuring Adel Tawil) | 2015 | 80 | — | 47 | BVMI: Gold | VI |
| "Vielleicht" (Gestört aber GeiL featuring Adel Tawil) | 2019 | 38 | — | — | | Non-album-single |