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Tokio Hotel was founded by vocalist Bill Kaulitz and guitarist Tom Kaulitz, who are identical twin brothers, drummer Gustav Schäfer and bass-guitarist Georg Listing. The four met in 2001 after a live show in a Magdeburg club, where Listing and Schäfer, who knew each other from music school, watched from the audience while Bill and Tom Kaulitz played on the stage. Under the name Devilish, the band soon began playing in talent shows and small concerts.

After Bill Kaulitz's participation in a children's Star Search in 2003 at age thirteen , he was discovered by music producer Peter Hoffmann.Soon after, Sony BMG took them under contract, however  shortly before the release of their first album, Sony terminated their contract. In 2005, Universal Music Group took Tokio Hotel under contract . The band is now one of the biggest modern acts from Germany and the biggest in 20 years.

Schrei,their first album, sold more than half a million copies worldwide and produced four top five singles in both Germany and Austria. In 2007, the band released their second German album Zimmer 483 and their first English album Scream which  helped  the band win their first MTV Europe Music Award for Best InterAct. The former albun, Zimmer 483, produced three top five singles in Germany while the latter, Scream, produced two singles that reached the top twenty in new territories such as France, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

    In September 2008, they won in the US their first MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist. In October 2008, they won four awards including Best International Artist and Song of the year at Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica held in Mexico. Tokio Hotel became the first German band ever to win an award at the MTV VMAs and also at the MTV Latin America Awards.

    They also picked up the Headliner award at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 held in Liverpool on 6 November 2008 and the Award for Best Group on 5 November 2009 at the MTV Europe Music Award held in Berlin. They won an Award for Best World Stage Performance on 7 November 2010 at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid,being the only European group which won an award .

After their 1000 Hotels European Tour ,Tokio Hotel embarked on a second tour of North America in August 2008.

On September 3 2010,the video for the first single of their last CD called Humanoid  was released. They started the HUMANOID WORLD TOUR . 

Tokio Hotel performed their first concert in Asia  at the Audi Showcase in Singapore, followed shortly by the TM Connects With Tokio Hotel event in Malaysia, promoting the sales of their album Humanoid. They concluded the series of mini-concerts with Taiwan. They returned to Malaysia a couple of months later to perform at MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia 2010. They are performed in Japan, in their namesake city of Tokyo, on December 15 2010, after their South American Tour concluded in Distrito Federal, Mexico on December 2, 2010.