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Cologne (dpa) - Trample and heartbreakingly warble: Pop singer Sasha (“If You Believe”) won the ProSieben show “The Masked Singer” in the costume of a cute dinosaur.
The 49-year-old secured the most votes from the audience in the final battle - then he took off the mask in which he had stomped on the stage in the past few weeks.
It was a kind of miniature version of a Tyrannosaurus rex with pajamas and braces that you hardly had to fear.
However, the costume wasn't easy to wear.
"It's a head sauna," said Sasha when he finally got a breath of fresh air.
But the dinosaur taught fear from the competition.
The king lizard trampled into the final without any problems.
There she prevailed against the leopard in the end, in which - as it now turned out - soul singer Cassandra Steen (41) was hiding.
Singer Ross Antony (46, formerly Bro'Sis) in a sparkling flamingo costume and ex-modern-talking singer Thomas Anders (58) came in behind the top duo.
Anders slipped out of a turtle outfit with a pirate hat.
As a sidekick, the toad captain had a talking parrot with him - a reference to his modern-talking partner Dieter Bohlen (67).
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"I'm very, very happy and relieved," Sasha admitted after his triumph.
He said he had a certain incentive.
“My thing was like this: either get out immediately.
Or finale. "
Born as Sascha Schmitz, the musician has been part of the German music circus for decades.
He became known in 1998 for Young Deenay's hit "Walk On By", in which he sang the chorus.
This was followed by major chart successes with English-language titles such as "I Feel Lonely" or "If You Believe".
After that he kept reinventing himself - for example as a rockabilly singer Dick Brave or with a German-language album.
This versatility alone had made the singer's name a kind of running gag in "The Masked Singer" in the past, where celebrities sing in elaborate costumes and do not want to be recognized.
Hardly a season went by without someone seriously assuming that Sasha was under one of the masks.
The same phenomenon regularly overtakes comedian Luke Mockridge (32), who is also constantly being secreted.
In the case of Sasha, the time had actually come in the fourth season.
Even if some council team members refused to admit it for a long time.
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"I now really believe that Sasha is a fixed fantasy in our heads," said Ruth Moschner (44) at the beginning of the finals.
He is always called, he is never there.
The result of their self-analysis was therefore another tip: Luke Mockridge.
Well.
It was different with Rea Garvey (47), who tipped Sasha with full conviction.
The two men are friends.
Garvey even managed to interpret the smallest clues - for example background music that sounded like the American singer Pink (41).
The matter is therefore clear, reported Garvey.
He knows that Sasha appeared at Pink's wedding.
The most obvious indication, however, was how the dinosaur practically celebrated its ability to serve different styles of music - it sang ballads by Celine Dion as well as hip-hop of the Sugarhill Gang.
“I already enjoyed that as a child.
Slipping into different characters or imitating different performers, ”said Sasha of his desire to swap roles.
Even guessing guest Joko Winterscheidt (42) decided on him correctly in the end - despite an otherwise somewhat erratic typing behavior.
In the case of the Leopard, he considered the cleaning lady Sabine from his former program «Circus HalliGalli».
Once again, Sasha, a professional singer, won the ProSieben show, in which this time, among other things, Tagesschau spokeswoman Judith Rakers (45) was revealed as a dancing chick and pop singer Guildo Horn (58) as a vigorous bull.
In the previous season, Sarah Lombardi (28) had triumphed as an ice skeleton.
A fifth season is announced for the fall.
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You will then be able to save yourself one permanent tip: Sasha.
But there is still Luke Mockridge.
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