More than just a big mouth
A voice of honey and steel
As a classical singer, he clearly belongs to the world of serious music. However, over the years he has become known to an extremely wide audience. “I think I am immediately recognisable to around 100% of the public“, he jokes, not without a certain amount of self-irony, referring to his thalidomide disability.
His voice is at the same time insistent and powerful, like honey and steel. Thomas Quasthoff has a unique way of gripping and moving his audience. This is not only due to his expressive voice, but to a variety of things – his voice, his enormous musicality, his keen sense of humour, both on and off stage, his charisma, his persistence and his powers of self-assertion.
Thomas Quasthoff is a man who has something to say – both as a musician and as a human being. And he is not afraid of saying it.
The official biography of Thomas Quasthoff can be found in the following PDF document.