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Max Buskohl is a singer and songwriter, who grew up on Lanzarote, Sydney, Berlin and Dublin. His music is a mix of rock, pop and country. Max lived in Sydney while his father was playing and producing the album Lover Lover for Jimmy Barnes and then moved to Spain and Dublin while his father toured the world. As he got older he settled in Berlin and started his own music career. Max Buskohl burst onto the German music scene in 2007, as a contestant on season 4 of Germany’s Pop Idol TV show “Deutschland sucht den Superstar”. He caused a major uproar in the German media when he became one of three finalists and then quit the show unexpectedly, saying he did not feel like the show could properly represent him or his music. In 2007 his band Empty Trash, for which he was the songwriter, lead singer and guitarist, signed a record deal with the major label EMI and released 3 singles as well as their album “Confession”. Following his band career, Max signed with Universal Music as a solo