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How did I get into music? I come from a very musical family. Even as a young boy, I often had the opportunity to listen to my 6-year-old brother play the piano. Thanks to his perfect ear, he was able to play even complicated and demanding pieces that he had heard somewhere at the first attempt, true to the original. As I admired him in everything, it was almost a logical consequence that I also developed a pronounced penchant for making music at an early age. I probably unconsciously learned a lot from him during this time. Above all, I learned to listen. I first met my other musical role models, the Beatles, when I was around 9 years old. To this day, they embody for me a unique combination of originality, concentrated musicality and creative collaboration, not to mention their stylistic range. Until I was 17, almost nothing else came on my turntable... I got my first saxophone, an alto sax, when I was 11, took lessons for 2-3 years, but realized that playing from sheet music wasn't exactly easy for me. To this day, I'm still pretty amateurish at it. But when I think about it, I just don't feel like it in the first place... A few years later, I had my first experiences in school bands of different styles. The most important experience at that age was certainly that making music according to the principle of “faster, higher, further” in order to impress others, soon led me at least to my limits. If you don't know this feeling yet, I highly recommend trying to play along to Johnny Winter's LP “Captured Live” (at full volume, of course), including all the guitar solos on the saxophone.Our neighborhood at home “was very amused”... Frustrated, I put the saxophone aside for 5-6 years and taught myself to play bass.This also had the advantage that as a bass player in a band I couldn't be fired so easily, because a bass is always needed.I played rock, hard rock and also played in a blues trio for a few years at the end of the 90s.At the same time, I earned good money playing in an oldie rock'n'roll cover band during my studies and gained a lot of stage experience. I only picked up the sax again in 2005 and two years later I took over the Bobby Keys part in a Rolling Stones cover band (tenor sax, small percussion, harp, background vocals) for a few years.In the last few years I also learned to play the guitar. From 2009 - 2013 I was a member of the jazz-funk-wave-soul band “Sunny Side up”. Since the fall of 2013, I've been getting more and more into writing and recording my own songs and I'm very excited to see what the future will bring me... As a musician I am intuitive and passionate, I like to improvise and want to create and capture special moments. When writing songs, I usually follow my intuition and am open to very different music.This openness is also reflected in my lyrics, in which I capture feelings, moods and atmosphere in images. For me, a song is finished when the lyrics and music are atmospherically close together and form a unit. What style of music do I like? Music that breathes. My motto as a musician: Close your eyes...stop thinking...and listen to what emerges...

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