Real name: Gerhard Schmidt Zink

German drummer, songwriter and producer, born 25 March 1923 in Berlin, Germany and died 03 January 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. From 1945 to 1955 he played the drums for Kurt Edelhagen. In 1955 he founded his own band Bobby Schmidt Mit Seinem Sextett, with which he made recordings for numerous artists. In 1958 he settled down as a producer at Deutsche Grammophon, where he discovered and promoted Wencke Myhre, among others. Until his retirement in July 1986 he maintained an intensive collaboration with Max Greger.