Career
At the age of ten, he had his first experiences on stage when he was performing for a game circus, a project that arose in co-operation with Caritas and endeavored to inspire children for creativity. He himself got a lot of ideas out of this project The first band he joined when he was fifteen was called ‘Lua Cheia’.
He gained his first studio experiences with his school band ‘The Basement Kids’ during the production of his first Civil Defense ‘Cry Foreign Peace’.
He then passed his higher school certificate examination and began his studies at the University of Cologne. But he never gave up his music
He worked as a backing vocalist, participated in jam sessions and had many other musical activities. At that time, he got in contact with the Cologne A cappella ensemble ‘Voice Sings’ with whom he toured a lot.
In 2000, Marco and his band ‘Atlanticos’ participated in a ‘international Festival Foreign Young People Of The Portuguese Communities 2000’.
The festival was broadcast live to the Portuguese speaking territories all over the world. Portuguese people living in Australia, Macao, Brazil and other territories watched his performance and Marco and his band received a tremendous reaction from the televoters and made third place. They produced an album in Portuguese, and were doing a lot of television-Shows and radio performances in the following years 2001 and 2002.
In 2003, he was invited to a casting called ‘The German Voice 2003’.
He was elected from among 12,000 candidates and entered the final with nine other competitors. In that final he became second.
‘A Miracle Of Love’ is the title of the song written by Ralph Siegel that Marco performed, together with Nicole Süßmilch, during the German pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 and they again made a very good second place. In 2006, Marco competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 as a part of the group six4one, representing Switzerland, with the song, "If We All Give A Little".
