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Bertram Engel
12+ albums
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Born Bertram Lutz Wilhelm Passmann on November 27, 1957 in Burgsteinfurt, Westfalen, Germany, Bertram started playing the piano when he was just 7 years old. Short time later he discovered the drums and started practicing whenever he could. Soon he became known regionally and when he was 17, one of the biggest German live acts back then needed a drummer. Udo Lindenberg called and aksed if he's ready to play in front of 70,000 people. The rest is history. He became a member of Udo Lindenberg & das Panikorchester by the end of the 70s. Around that time, Peter Maffay started forming his live band and saw Bertram playing with Udo and so Bertram also became a fix member of Maffay's live band. Ever since, Bertram has also been part of side projects along with fellow bandmembers: Average Businessmen (with guitarist Frank Diez), The Raiders of the last Corvette / The Raiders (along with guitarist Carl Carlton), New Legend (with Carl Carlton and keyboardist Pascal Kravetz) as well as Carl Carlton and the Songdogs. Carl, Bertram and Pascal have become friends and also took the chance to produce the first album of a CD Series for guitar lessons, called Play it! where they interpret well known popular songs in an acoustic style, while the second disc contains the same tracks without guitars for the listener to play along. Throughout the years in many Maffay concerts Bertram also took the microphone and presented covers of other aritsts: Wonderful tonight by Eric Clapton, Go let it out b
