Mark Medlock (born July 9, 1978 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German singer and the most successful winner of the fourth season of the television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar (DSDS) , the German version of Pop Idol .

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Biography

Personal life

Medlock is the elder of two siblings born to an African-American father from Georgia, Larry Medlock, and a German mother, Monika, in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. Mark and his brother Larry were raised in a semi-poor home in the Lohwaldsiedlung neighborhood of Offenbach am Main during their formative years, before eventually moving to the Lauterborn neighborhood in 1997. At the age of six, Medlock began singing gospel, widely influenced by his father and classical soul singers such as James Brown and Barry White.

At the end of the 1990s his mother fell sick with cancer. Medlock subsequently left school and cared for her until her death in 2000. Two years later his father died of a heart attack. In the meantime Mark made a living with various jobs, including employment as a geriatric nurse, gardener, swamper and garbage remover.

In 2001 Medlock married his former boyfriend. The couple eventually got divorced in 2004, and Mark moved into a living community with his three cats Aragon, Cookies, and Heaven.

Despite Mark's very busy schedule, he manages to set aside a number of hours per week to socialise in the busy Berlin metropole. Mark frequents the video/DVD shop, Movie Star in , Charlottenburg - Berlin, where he spends endless hours having fun with the general public and his fans, who appreciate his playful nature - [vulg.] zum abspritzen geil.

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Medlock was one of the favorite contestants right from the beginning of the competition. He had wowed the audience and the judges with his first performance in the Top 20 motto show and so on to the final. Medlock eventually won the competition with 78.02 % of the votes against Martin Stosch who originally placed fourth but returned because of Max Buskohl's withdrawal.

Medlock is next to season five winner Thomas Godoj the second contestant of all German seasons who always gained the majority of vote calls during any of the nine theme shows and the two Top 20 shows. He is also one of two winners who was revealed to have never been in the bottom 3 during the competition, as well as being the first multiracial winner.

Discography

Albums

Year	Information	Chart positions			Certification	Sales
		GER	AUT	SWI
2007	Mr. Lonely Debut studio album Released: June 15, 2007	1	2	2	AT: Gold [1] DE: Platinum [2] SWI: Gold [2]	250,000
2007	Dreamcatcher (duet album with Dieter Bohlen) 2nd studio album Released: November 9, 2007	2	6	14	DE: Platinum [4]	225,000
2008	Cloud Dancer 3rd studio album Released: May 30, 2008	2	6	11	DE: Gold [4]	125,000
2009	Club Tropicana 4th studio album Released: May 22, 2009	3	7	15

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions					Certification IFPI (GER)	Album
		GER	SWI	AUT	LUX	EUR
2007	"Now or Never"	1	1	1	1	11	Platinum	Mr. Lonely
	"You Can Get It" (featuring Dieter Bohlen)	1	3	3	1	8	Platinum	Mr. Lonely New Version
	"Unbelievable" (with Dieter Bohlen)	4	27	19	-	22	-	Dreamcatcher
2008	"Summer Love"	1	11	4	1	10	Gold	Cloud Dancer
2009	"Mamacita"	2	17	4	16	39	Gold	Club Tropicana
	"Baby Blue"							Club Tropicana New Version

Appearances

• 2007: Power of Love (joined release of all finale participants of DSDS )
• * "Endless Love"
• * "If You Don't Know Me by Now" (Mark and the DSDS-Top-10)

Certifications

Albums Mr. Lonely ::German certification: 1x Platinum (200,000) [6] :Austrian certification: 1x Gold (10,000) :Swiss certification: 1x Gold (15,000) Dreamcatcher ::German certification: 1x Gold (100,000) [6] Singles *"Now Or Never" :German certification: 1x Platinum (300,000) [6] :Austrian certification: 1x Gold (15,000) *"You Can Get It" :German certification: 1x Platinum (300,000) [6] *"Unbelievable" *"Summer Love" :German certification: 1x Gold (150,000) [6]