Findings
| When | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Naidoo participated in Brothers Keepers, an Afro-German music collective established in response to racist violence. Its song “Adriano (Letzte Warnung)” commemorated Alberto Adriano, who was murdered by neo-Nazis, and explicitly opposed racism. | Source |
| 2015 | Naidoo’s lyrics were publicly criticized for homophobic language and for connecting homosexuality with child abuse; this controversy contributed to the reversal of his selection as Germany’s 2016 Eurovision representative. | Source |
| Naidoo became associated with Reichsbürger circles and promoted conspiracy narratives connected to QAnon and COVID denial. In 2022, he acknowledged that he had become absorbed in conspiracy theories and distanced himself from extremist and conspiracist groups. Later statements using similar conspiracy themes have raised questions about how lasting that change was. | Source |
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