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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Smudo
Person · male · Germany · Offenbach am Main · born 1968
writer and rapper in the German hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier
Also known as Michael Bernd Schmidt · 斯姆多
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1960s
Biography
English biography125 words · 1 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366864511
Biography
Michael Bernd Schmidt (German pronunciation: [ˈmɪçaʔeːl bɛʁnt ˈʃmɪt]; born 6 March 1968), better known as Smudo, is a German rapper and songwriter in the hip hop group Die Fantastischen Vier. He has been part of the group for more than 30 years.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Smudo was involved in the development of the Luca app for contact tracing in Germany. He has appeared as on The Voice of Germany and the German version of The Voice Kids as part of a judging and coaching duo with fellow musician Michi Beck. While on the respective shows, they coached Charley Ann Schmutzler, Jamie-Lee Kriewitz, Georgia Balke and Emma Filipović to victory, making them so far the coaches with the most wins (four) on both shows combined.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Smudo head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Die Fantastischen Vier(band) | — | present |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Fantastischen_Vier-Rock_im_Park_2014-_by_2eight_3SC0040.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88979genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88979seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudobiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudo
Why this artist is in the database
- List of German musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Stefan Brending ( 2eight ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q88979 · MusicBrainz: 6220d650-307d-4d65-878b-7e74e94a6225
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