Herbrüggen finished secondary school with Mittlere Reife and began an internship training as a Personal Care Assistant. From summer 2018 he took part in the casting show Deutschland sucht den Superstar and on April 27, 2019, he won the season finale. Herbrüggen received a record contract with Universal Music Group and prize money of €100,000.[1] In the music video for his single winner The River, the former plays Germany's Next Topmodel contestant Gerda Lewis the female lead.[2] With 34th place in the German single charts, Herbrüggen achieved the worst chart placement of a “DSDS” winning song.[3] In September 2019 he released his second and first German-language single O Wie Du.[4] He also accompanied Die Lochis as a support act on their farewell tour.[5] In December 2019, Herbrüggen stepped in Oberhausen as support of Xavier Naidoo.[6] In an edition of Wer weiß denn sowas? (Who knows something like that?) Herbrüggen won against Luca Hänni on January 30, 2020.
In 2022, Herbrüggen outed himself as homosexual.[7]
