Cosmó
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| Background information | |
| Born | Benjamin Gedeon (2006年06月18日) 18 June 2006 (age 19) Budapest, Hungary |
| Origin | Halbturn, Burgenland, Austria |
| Occupations |
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| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2021 - present |
| Website | www |
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Benjamin Gedeon (born 18 June 2006), known professionally as Cosmó (stylized in all caps), is an Austrian and Hungarian singer and songwriter. He represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 on home soil in Vienna with the song "Tanzschein".
Early life
[edit ]Gedeon was born in Budapest, Hungary and grew up in Halbturn, Burgenland, Austria. He was born to a German father and Hungarian mother.[1] At the age of four, he attended early musical education at the Neusiedl am See Central Music School. Two years later, Gedeon began piano lessons at the same school. He has been taking singing lessons since he was 13. Around this age, Gedeon also began writing down melodies and lyrics. Under his birth name, he released his first songs, which he produced himself.[2]
Career
[edit ]In 2020, Gedeon auditioned for the German singing competition The Voice Kids for the first time and was eliminated after the second round. He returned in 2022, and this time Gedeon not only progressed further in the scouting process but also reached the final of the tenth season with coach Álvaro Soler, where he sang two Frank Sinatra songs.[3]
As a result, Gedeon performed at two of Soler's concerts, at the Kasematten open-air stage in Graz's Schlossberg and at the Gasometer in Vienna. He also performed at the warm-up for the Starnacht am Neusiedlersee, at the Gols folk festival and the Halbturn Tschardakenfest, played a piano concert at Kittsee Castle with his piano teacher, Gebhard Rauscher, simultaneously on two grand pianos, and met the governor of Burgenland, who had watched Gedeon's performances on television, in October. In December, he gave his first radio interview on the Burgenland program "Mahlzeit Burgenland" on Radio Burgenland.
In July 2021, Gedeon won the podium.jazz.pop.rock... competition for young musicians from Burgenland with a vocal and piano performance of his self-composed jazz piece "Fall into Your Arms".[4] He also participated in the Burgenland Song Challenge in autumn 2023 with the song "Fall into Your Arms". For this, Gedeon formed a band for live concerts and studio recordings, which can be heard in his song.[2]
On 15 December 2025, it was announced that Gedeon would compete in the Austrian national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, dubbed Vienna Calling – Wer singt für Österreich?, with the song "Tanzschein" under the stage name Cosmó.[5] [6] He won in the final on 20 February 2026, thus earning the right to represent Austria on home soil.[7] [8] He placed 24th in the Eurovision final.[9]
Artistry
[edit ]Gedeon has commented that his stage name and the blue star on his face came about when "Shortly before the Vienna Calling audition, I said, "Wait a minute, I'm going to quickly change my name.' Because it's so different from anything I've done before. Back then, I wrote in English, kind of like pop-rock, classic rock style, and now it's more like German pop. So I thought, 'Okay, I'm basically starting over.' Then Cosmó came along, and I was like, "Okay, Cosmó needs something, something visual that fits the name," and then the star came about."[10]
Discography
[edit ]Credits taken from iTunes.[11]
Extended plays
[edit ]| Title | Details |
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| From My Room |
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| Lieber tanz ich weiter |
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Singles
[edit ]| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album or EP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUT [12] |
AUT Air. [13] |
LTU [14] | |||
| "Give Me a Moment" | 2022 | — | — | — | Non-album singles |
| "Pizza" (featuring Erich Galacho & Francesco Ialazzo) |
— | — | — | ||
| "Fall into Your Arms" | 2023 | — | — | — | |
| "Faster Than Ever Before" | 2024 | — | — | — | |
| "Play Another Song" | 2025 | — | — | — | From My Room |
| "28 Hours" | — | — | — | ||
| "Don't Dream It's Over" | — | — | — | ||
| "Tanzschein" | 2026 | 2 | 20 | 99 | Lieber tanz ich weiter |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||
References
[edit ]- ^ "70. Song Contest: Cosmó löst den „Tanzschein" für Österreich". Die Presse. 21 February 2026.
- ^ a b "Songchallenge Burgenland: Benjamin Gedeon" . Retrieved 6 February 2026.
- ^ "The Voice Kids 2022 Final-Kandidaten" . Retrieved 7 February 2026.
- ^ "odium.jazz.pop.rock... Benjamin Gedeon ist Sieger" (in German).
- ^ "Song Contest: Zwölf Acts für Vorausscheidung stehen fest". news.ORF.at (in German). 15 December 2025. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
- ^ Granger, Anthony (18 November 2025). "🇦🇹 Austria: Casting Round This Weekend for Vienna Calling – Wer singt für Österreich?". Eurovoix. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
- ^ Neil Farren (20 February 2026). "🇦🇹 Austria: Cosmó to Eurovision 2026" . Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ^ "Cosmó will sing for Austria – To Eurovision 2026 with "Tanzschein"". Eurovisionworld. 20 February 2026. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ^ "Eurovision 2026 Results: Voting & Points". Eurovisionworld. Retrieved 16 May 2026.
- ^ ""Servus or Oida?" The ultimate questions of faith in COSMÓ - Austria Edition 🇦🇹". YouTube. ORF ON. 2 May 2026. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
Mimi: You're known as Cosmó. But you're Benjamin, Ben, your friends call you. How did Cosmó come about?... ...Did you plan it that way, or did the concept develop organically? Cosmó: It developed organically. It really came about very quickly and spontaneously. Shortly before the Vienna Calling audition, I said, "Wait a minute, I'm going to quickly change my name." Because it's so different from anything I've done before. Back then, I wrote in English, kind of like pop-rock, classic rock style, and now it's more like German pop. So I thought, "Okay, I'm basically starting over." Then Cosmó came along, and I was like, "Okay, Cosmó needs something, something visual that fits the name," and then the star came about.
- ^ "Benjamin Gedeon on Apple Music". Apple Music.
- ^ "Discographie Cosmó" [Cosmó Discography] (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40 . Retrieved 23 May 2026.
- ^ "Radio-Charts Österreich – Chartwoche 20/2026" [Radio Charts Austria – Chart Week 20/2026] (in German). IFPI Austria. Archived from the original on 28 May 2026. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
- ^ "2026 21-os savaitės klausomiausi (Top 100)" [Most-Streamed Songs of Week 21 (Top 100)] (in Lithuanian). AGATA. 22 May 2026. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
External links
[edit ]- Wikimedia Commons logo Media related to Cosmó at Wikimedia Commons
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by | Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 |
Succeeded by TBA
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- 2006 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Austrian male singers
- 21st-century Hungarian male singers
- Hungarian male singer-songwriters
- Austrian male singer-songwriters
- Hungarian emigrants to Austria
- Eurovision Song Contest entrants
- The Voice Kids contestants
- Singers from Budapest
- Hungarian people of German descent
- Austrian people of Hungarian descent
- Austrian people of German descent