Finch (rapper)

Wehowsky was born in Frankfurt (Oder), East Germany, on 13 April 1990 and grew up in the nearby town of Fürstenwalde. He did an apprenticeship in mechanics and worked for five years in the private sector, after which he studied electrical engineering. He moved to work in the Lichtenberg borough of Berlin in 2013.{{Cite news |last=Winkler |first=Thomas |date=25 August 2019 |title=Rapper Finch Asozial im Interview: "Erfolg ist die beste Rache" |language=de |work=Die Tageszeitung: taz |url=https://taz.de/!5617010/ |access-date=18 March 2022 |issn=0931-9085}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pc24RAWMHk |title=FINCH ASOZIAL über sein Studium, Karriere auf Mallorca und Druck rauslassen (2/2) |date=6 February 2022 |last= |first= |type=Youtube |language=German |publisher=Einigkeit & Rap & Freiheit}}

Wehowsky first came to prominence on the German battle rap show Rap am Mittwoch. He began regularly uploading his songs to his Youtube channel in 2014{{YouTube|c=FiNCH_OFFiCiAL}} and released his debut single Ostdeutscher Hasselhoff in August 2016.{{YouTube|id=MaUh6GZqm9A|title=Finch Asozial – Ostdeutscher Hasselhoff}} This was followed in August 2018 by his EP Fliesentisch Romantik.{{cite web|title=iTunes – Finch Asozial - Singles und EPs|periodical=iTunes|publisher=|url=https://music.apple.com/de/artist/finch/1321868415|format=|access-date=14 March 2019|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}} In July 2018, he took part in a battle rap with rapper Clep on the TopTierTakeover YouTube channel. Their video gained over a million views.{{Cite web |last=Hallenstein |first=Octavius |date=6 August 2018 |title=Finch Asozial rastet im Battle aus: "Ich schlag dich tot!" |url=https://raptastisch.net/2018/08/06/finch-asozial-rastet-im-battle-aus-ich-schlag-dich-tot/ |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=Raptastisch |language=de-DE}} He released his single Departure in December 2018 and within two weeks it had reached number 63 on the German single charts.Charts: [https://www.offiziellecharts.de/suche?artist_search=Finch&do_search=do DE] [https://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Finch AT] [https://hitparade.ch/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Finch CH] This was his first song to enter the charts and its music video has over 20 million views on Youtube.{{Cite web |last=red |title=Finch Asozial bittet zum Tanz in die "Dorfdisko" |url=https://www.heute.at/s/finch-asozial-dorfdisko-rap-57290829 |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=Heute.at |date=13 September 2021 |language=de}} His first studio album Dorfdisko was released on 8 March 2019 and quickly reached number 2 on the German album charts. On 14 February 2020 his second album Finchi's Love Tape was released, which had also reached number 2 on the charts. He started his Twitch channel sweetfinchiboy90 in 2020, on which he regularly streams video games.{{cite web|title=sweetfinchiboy90|periodical=|publisher=Twitch|url=https://www.twitch.tv/sweetfinchiboy90|format=|access-date=27 June 2020|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}{{cite web|title=sweetfinchiboy90's Twitch Stats Summary Profile (Social Blade Twitch Statistics)|periodical=|publisher=|url=https://socialblade.com/twitch/user/sweetfinchiboy90|format=|access-date=27 June 2020|last=|date=|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}

In May 2021 he announced, via his Instagram profile, that he would henceforth only perform under the stage name of Finch (having previously performed as Finch Asozial). He had already renamed all of his social media channels accordingly and released his April 2021 single Keine bösen Wörter under the Finch stage name. The reason he gave for the change was that he didn't want "people to prejudice my music - without knowing me, without ever having heard my music".{{cite web|title=Finch Asozial ändert seinen Namen & Aussehen|periodical=Hiphop.de|publisher=|url=https://hiphop.de/magazin/news/finch-asozial-neuer-name-vokuhila-bart|format=|access-date=4 May 2021|last=Alina Amin|date=2 May 2021|language=|pages=|quote=}} His third album Rummelbums was released on 17 February 2022. The album reached number one in the German album charts.

Wehowsky's persona embraces his East German background; he wears "a mullet and polyester jogging suits" and uses East German culture and stereotypes favourably in his music videos. He also writes his satirical lyrics in vulgar language, characterised by nostalgia and a largely positive attitude towards modern East Germany and excessive drug use. According to Wehowsky, these aesthetics are based on 1980s East Germany.{{cite news|title="Fliesentisch liebe ich. Und Palmentapeten"|periodical=der Freitag|publisher=|url=https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/fliesentisch-liebe-ich-und-palmentapeten|format=|access-date=14 March 2019|last=Ruth Herzberg|date=6 June 2018|language=|pages=|quote=}}

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