The Biography

In 1980, when Andreas Martin found himself in the spotlight with “Wenn du weinst”, all the insiders in the music business already knew of him, because this good-looking young man had made his name as a studio musician and composer.

Seeing him on stage, there could be no doubt that here was somebody who had learned his craft from scratch – and yet, for the first two years, he had very little to show for it. Not until the summer of 1982 did his breakthrough single “Amore mio” catapult him to the top of TV’s ZDF Hitparade and to the upper reaches of the charts, where songs like “Solo tu (Du allein), “Der Himel kann warten”, “Das erste Mal im Leben”, “Meine lange Reise zu Dir”, “Samstag Nacht in der Stadt” kept him throughout the 1980s. He often wrote the songs himself, together with such music greats as Tony Hendrik and Karin van Haaren, Bernd Meinunger, Michael Kunze and Joachim Horn-Berges.

However, his career has not just been that of a solo artist. Almost more successfully than for himself, over the years he wrote for colleagues like Brunner & Brunner, Wolfgang Petry, Juliane Werding, Nino de Angelo, Claudia Jung, Roger Whittaker, the Kastelruther Spatzen, Bernhard Brink, Die Paldauer, Gaby Albrecht, Engelbert Humperdinck and many others.