When I saw the black and white keys of our school piano for the first time, my gaze lingered on them a little longer and my thoughts curiously tried to grasp the keyboard. At some point, the opportunity arose for me to try my hand at the instrument and elicit sounds from it. I listened in awe and excitement and felt that what I was experiencing was something beautiful and special, something completely different from my normal existence. It was as if a door to another world had opened….

Classical music lessons were never an option. I was thirteen years old and the youngest. We were three boys and the money my parents had earned had to be distributed fairly. So there was no special treatment. I also didn’t feel like I needed music lessons, because when our music teacher at school unpacked a synthesizer (it was a Yamaha DX 21), I knew I wanted something like that. A device that produces a variety of sounds, which in turn caused amazement and enthusiasm about what was possible. That’s how the songs you hear on the radio are made, I thought at the time. So when I was fifteen, I asked for a keyboard and it turned out to be a Yamaha PSS-170, on which I soon played my first song. My pride and joy.

In the early 1990s, we were able to find various (real) synthesizers and equipment and produced music for local Cologne bands from the hip-hop scene, including a track for the “4 Reeves”. We also contributed music for a local documentary video.

At the end of the 1990s, I moved from the big city to the countryside. Me and a couple of guys formed the band “Jet-O-Matix” and we performed a mixture of rock with reggae vibes in the local area. Gigs, producing our music, my job … it was a wild but good time. Unfortunately, we split up in 2009 for professional and family reasons.

After moving to a – I’ll call it an “estate” – not much happened apart from the acoustic and musical accompaniment for a small radio play for a friend. This was followed by a few “cold” years in which I mainly devoted myself to the past and the present and where music took a back seat for a while. But musical ideas were always there and so I set up my small but nice home studio where I work on my old and new songs.