| Name |
Sido |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
German |
| Date of Birth |
30-November-1980 |
| Place of Birth |
Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Germany |
| Famous for |
singing |
Paul Hartmut Wurdig, better known as Sido, is a German rapper. The name "Sido" is an abbreviation which stands for "superintelligentes Drogenopfer" ("super intelligent drug victim"), or "ScheiBe in dein Ohr" ("shit into your ear") in earlier times.
Wurdig distinguishes himself by using provocative and aggressive lyrics. After his breakthrough with his debut album Maske in 2004, Wurdig was always seen wearing a silver skull mask until 2005. Since then he made no use of the mask anymore and, as he has stated in various interviews, handed it to his former boss Specter.
Wurdig's career began in 1997, as one half of duo Royal TS (now A.i.d.S), with B-Tight and both got later signed to Berlin hip hop label Royal Bunker and then to Aggro Berlin in 2001.
Paul Wurdig was born to a German father and a Sinti mother. Wurdig stated in an interview with the radio station BigFM that he's one-eighth Irani. Sido and his younger sister were brought up by their mother in East Berlin. In 1988, the family moved to West Berlin, where they first lived in emergency accommodation in Wedding along with many asylum seekers. They then moved into Markisches Viertel, a high-rise residential area in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf. During his childhood and youth, Markisches Viertel had a high proportion of migrants and low-income families. He attended the Bettina-von-Arnim-Oberschule there and afterwards started an apprenticeship as an educator, which he cancelled after some time.
