Real name: Joachim Richard Carl Witt

Effective period / Period of releases: 1980 - 2023

Joachim Witt is a German musician & producer, born on 22 February 1949 in Hamburg. Witt became a major star of the German pop scene during the 1980s with huge hits such as Herbergsvater and Der Goldene Reiter. He was one of the biggest names of the so-called Neue Deutsche Welle (new German wave), of which performers like Nena and Falco were also a part. He made a big comeback at the end of the 1990s, when he scored a major hit with Die Flut, a duet with Peter Heppner, the singer of popular German synth pop group Wolfsheim. Even in his seventies, he still performs & releases music.