Thomas Neuwirth

In our crazy age, it is no longer so easy for a woman with a beard to shock the public. An ordinary woman with a false beard. But Conchita Wurst succeeded. She is perhaps one of the most extraordinary Austrian and world pop stars. This shocking artist wanted to show the world that a person should not be encased in a shell and obey public opinion.

Conchita Wurst is the stage name of the Austrian pop singer. The real name of the controversial pop diva is Thomas Neuwirth. Thomas was born on November 6, 1988 in the resort town of Gmunden, in the south-east of Austria. The future singer spent his childhood in respectable Styria, where he graduated from school.

That he showed a penchant for dressing up as a woman and unconventional tastes, Thomas realized in his early teens. Even then, he associated himself more with a woman than with a man, did not show interest in the opposite sex and did not in the least hide this in front of his peers. For which he paid. Since the Puritan society has always been prejudiced against the likes of Neuwirth, the guy had a hard time. Thomas constantly heard ridicule in his address and endured bullying.

Even then, he realized that he would devote his life to the struggle for the right of every person to self-determination and for the equality of people of non-traditional orientation. Despite the fact that Austria was one of the first countries to recognize gays and lesbians as a separate social group, there was no need to talk about tolerance towards representatives of the LGBT community. Moreover, both then and now, according to Austrian law, only a man and a woman can legally marry. And although same-sex partners have a number of rights, they are not yet equal in rights with different-sex families.

But the fateful star of Thomas shone brightly not only thanks to the recognition of the gay. In 2006, he, still without makeup, participated in the third season of the casting show "Starmania", where young performers got a chance to prove themselves. Neuwirth finished second, behind only Nadine Beiler.

This success in the competition was the starting point for Tom to make his way to the big stage. It was then that Tom declared publicly that he was gay. The following year, the guy founded his own pop-rock group, Jetzt Anders!, Which broke up almost immediately after its appearance. However, this failure did not break the aspiring musician at all, and he continued his striving for success, for which he entered the Gracev School of Fashion, from which he graduated in 2011.

Remarkably, for his stage character, which became the transvestite Conchita Wurst, Neuwirth created a separate biography, strikingly different from his own. Everything is different. Unless age and height have remained unchanged.

According to the invented story, Conchita Wurst was born in the Colombian mountains, near Bogota, and only later moved to Germany, where she spent her childhood. She received the name in honor of her grandmother, and her father's name is Alfred Knack von Wurst. The word "wurst" in translation from German means "sausage", and therefore journalists often mockingly called the singer "bearded sausage", but this did not touch Conchita herself.

According to Neuwirth, a clear distinction was always drawn between his stage image and himself, they have different lives and fates. But these people worked together, defended their own ideals and the rights of people like themselves.

Thomas Neuwirth first appeared in public as Conchita Wurst in 2011, when he applied to participate in the ORF show Die grosse Chance. Participation in the casting show brought Wurst unprecedented popularity, and the transvestite became a prominent figure in the country.

After that, Wurst participated in a show called "The Hardest Job in Austria", in which she had to work in a fish factory, and also tried to survive with other participants in the deserts of Namibia in the show "Wild Girls".

To make the public listen to Thomas' opinion, he decided to host Conchita Wurst at Eurovision - the most famous European music competition. According to Wurst, it doesn't matter what a person looks like, what his sexual orientation is and where he comes from, because the main thing is what kind of soul he has, what is inside him.

Conchita took part in the national selection for Eurovision 2012, but then another performer got a ticket to the competition. In 2013, the ORF company, using its authoritarian law, bypassing the audience vote, announced that it was Wurst who would perform at Eurovision 2014.

This decision caused a resonance among the audience. More than 30 thousand Austrian citizens spoke in social networks negatively about this decision. However, the company remained unconvinced. Conchita Wurst performed at Eurovision 2014 with the melodic composition "Rise Like a Phoenix".

On May 10, Copenhagen hosted the 2014 Eurovision final. The audience was waiting for the performance of the bright Conchita, the "bearded singer" from Austria, which became a real phenomenon of Eurovision. As a result, more countries voted for it.

Wurst turned out to be an extremely sentimental "lady". Every 12 points Conchita met with tears. The fight in the last minutes began between Austria and the country duo from the Netherlands. The countries were catching up and breaking away from each other, but in the end, the shocking Conchita Wurst turned out to be stronger. Having won the prestigious competition, Conchita Wurst wrote a truly real event in her biography: she won the right to host the next competition for Austria.

In 2015, after a resounding victory at the Euroshow, the outrageous icon recorded her debut album "Conchita", in which she included the song "Heroes" - a dedication to her fans. Also, a video was shot for this composition. So the singer thanked them for their support, which helped her to win at Eurovision. The album went platinum less than a week after its release.

The victory of such an outrageous singer in the competition caused a lot of criticism from politicians in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. They argued that this victory promoted the "blurring" of the boundaries between men and women.

In Russia, too, some politicians have spoken out on this score. According to them, Conchita is propaganda of homosexuality and moral decay.

Conchita Wurst stated that she was ready for a negative reaction from the public. She has repeatedly encountered negative opinions about herself and realized that people who had any prejudices against her personality subsequently abandoned them.

The image of a bearded woman repelled and surprised people, while arousing interest in the shocking "lady". And it was already difficult to imagine this sexy brunette without a beard.

In the summer of 2014, the singer performed at gay pride parades in London, Zurich, Stockholm and Madrid. She was constantly invited to participate in fashion shows. So she became a model in the show of the collection of fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, where she demonstrated a wedding dress. She also took part in Karl Lagerfeld's photo shoot.

In the same year, the singer became the face of the largest Austrian bank Bank Austria. And in the Madame Tussauds Museum in Berlin they put her wax copy.

In the fall of 2017, Conchita visited Russia for the first time. She came to the Side by Side LGBT Film Festival. Conchita agreed to sing a few songs at a club party. The club was packed, the concert went off with a bang.

The singer's personal life is far from a secret. Neuwirth admitted to being gay at the age of 17. Therefore, even now, the public freely watched the life of Conchita.

In 2011, Wurst announced that she was dating burlesque dancer Jacques Patriac. A little later, she announced that she had been legally married with him for four years. This statement has been confirmed by several well-known people.

Neither Conchita nor her common-law husband were afraid of the media, periodically in the media opening the veil over their "personal life" to the public. The network was flooded with photos of a bearded woman and her equally extravagant husband.

In 2015, Thomas Neuwirth said in an interview that Jacques is his close friend, and the love story with Conchita was just a fairy tale. According to Thomas, today he is free, while Patriac is in a relationship.

Rumors of plastic surgery were constantly spreading around Conchita's personality. But the singer herself denied surgery. Indeed, she did not resort to breast augmentation, did not change the shape of her lips and nose. There were no gender reassignment surgeries either. The main secret of Conchita before and after reincarnation is connected exclusively with facial hair, cosmetics and women's wardrobe.

Conchita Wurst / Thomas Neuwirth has a tattoo on his back depicting his mother, who played a major role in his life.

In April 2018, Conchita Wurst shocked the public by announcing that she was an HIV positive carrier. The singer fell ill many years ago and was not going to release the information, but the former partner began to threaten, promising to reveal the secret to Conchita's fans. She told the truth to get ahead of the unscrupulous ex-lover. The singer also said that she has been receiving medical attention for the past few years. Her family was aware. She feels good, full of strength and determination.

But many are not sure if everything is really as Conchita says. And does the HIV problem concern Thomas Neuwirth. After all, everyone remembers that Thomas and his alter ego initially had a different biography.

Back in February 2017, he said that he no longer needed Conchita. According to him, in the form of a woman with a beard, he has already achieved a lot. The main thing is that with her help he managed to draw attention to the issues of tolerance and humanism.

But perhaps Neuwirth did find another use for Conchite. He decided to use her to try to draw attention to the problem of HIV-infected people and attitudes towards them. He now regularly attends charitable events supporting people living with HIV or AIDS. Not so long ago he was in Vienna for the "Life Ball", which means "Ball of life". This is the largest such event in Europe.

In May 2018, “courageous” photos began to appear on Conchita's Instagram regularly. The singer's image has changed dramatically. Tom Neuwirth admitted that at the moment he does not want to wear dresses. In one of the last pictures he is dressed “like a man” - leather trousers, a black T-shirt and boots with thick soles and lace-ups. The hairstyle has also changed - now there are no long curls. Some fans of the star write under the pictures that Conchita Wurst "died forever" for them.

The singer revealed that he plans to release a new album in 2018 under the name Conchita. But then the alter ego will be over.

2007 - "Gut So" (as Tom Neuwirth with "Jetzt Anders!") 2015 - "Conchita" 2015 - "You Are Unstoppable" single 2015 - "Firestorm" single 2017 - "Heast as net" single (together with Ina Regen)

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