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Greetings! With you I'm Marina and I'm Maksim You are watching a special episode of RammNews Today marks 46 years keyboardist of the band Rammstein - Christian Lorenz
RammNews and fan site Rammclan.ru congratulates Christian with his birthday. We wish him good health, happiness, more joy in life, and will have continued to please us with his talent for a lot years. We wish him loyal friends and success.
Christian Flake Lorenz, was born on November 16, 1966 and grew up in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. In addition he have two brothers. Flake - his real name, not an alias.
The family was on the GDR's standards quite happy. Father - a design engineer, and later he even became a director of the enterprise. Familiarity with music for Flake began with "Amiga Jazz". The fact that his father was interested in the creativity of jazz group, and they had a lot of vinyls by "Amiga Jazz". And every time when Flake was sick, and he was sick often, in the morning he quietly got out of bed, put a vinyl and was listening to it.
These jazz records, he really liked and from them all began to Christian and he remained a fan of jazz and blues music up to 16 years.
"A friend of mine who was a year older than me, he played the piano. I could not believe that this is all for real. Music just flew out of his fingers, and I said" That's what I want. "Then my parents said," We'll see how this is serious. "Then I started to practice, play a typical melody and realized that I don't like it, because this music is nothing with what I would like to play"
Every time when Christian wanted someone to play with him, he was inviting them to home. Neighbors often hampered rehearsals, despite the fact that Flake tried to be quiet. Unfortunately, in that age, no one had a rehearsal and then Flake decided to give a concert to could safely play. His first concert he gave in the gym of a local school.
However, starting an independent life, he still earned money with his hands - he worked as a loader at slaughter, and later "rose" to the toolmaker. However, it was his passion for music has been used in the so-called big stage before the rest of the future participants of Rammstein. He was a member of the fairly well-known East German punk band Feeling B, team who made his name before fall of the Berlin Wall. The group was founded in the year 1983, and in 1989, they were the first punk band that has managed to record and release their official album, and later even to invited to national television.
However, the group disbanded because of its instability on beginning of 1994. At the moment from band members are dead singer Alesha Rompe and bass player Christoph Zimmermann.
In 2007, when Rammstein was on vacation, Flake had a chance to publish the old archive songs. The name of the new album was - «Grun & Blau». The album includes the old records, which were not included in previous albums.
In 1993, Paul, who was already the rhythm guitarist of the newly-made "Rammstein", brought with him a Christian. He was important to Rammstein since he's more autonomy, for which he was even quoted in the tabs to disk "Feeling B", such as: "From time to time depends - Flake." But he stubbornly, wanted resurrection "Feeling B".
As a result, Flake solve important for himself question for a year, while acting as a session musician. So make the right decision, Christian achieved all that he wanted in all life.
"Now, I realized everything in my life and I can safely say it was great! I have been in to many countries and seen a lot of interesting things, and all that's left now - it's keep eye on my grandchildren and I can safely say, life is not lived in vain"
In 2007, together with Dirk Salomon, Christian founded the company "ClassicDepot Berlin" where they both took up a favorite hobby, collecting antique cars, and bringing them perfect look, and after some time it was decided to bring them for hire almost anyone who wants to.
That's how of the young boy grew up successful, all achieved that he wanted tallant, whose name is Flake Lorenz.