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Artist
Inga Rumpf
12+ albums
rhythm and bluesfemale vocalistsbluesgermaninga rumpf
about
A soulful singer from Hamburg, Germany, who sang in the progressive band Frumpy before her solo career. Inga Rumpf Artist Biography by Frank Eisenhuth Inga Rumpf is one of the best-known German R&B singers. Her voice often draws comparisons to Janis Joplin, but Rumpf was able to develop her own unique vocal style. Catapulted to stardom in the ‘70s with her band Frumpy, she released a number of highly acclaimed solo works in the ‘80s and ‘90s and came to be regarded as the grand old lady of German R&B. Born on August 2, 1946 in Hamburg, Rumpf started performing as a teenager with different blues bands in the Hamburg entertainment district of St. Pauli. In 1965, she founded the folk band City Preachers and recorded three albums with them. After a creative crisis in 1969, the band changed styles from folk to a mix of beat and soul. A new lineup reflected this: Jean-Jacques Kravetz (keyboards), Karl-Heinz Schott (bass) and Udo Lindenberg (drums) formed the core of the new band, which one year later was to become Frumpy when Udo Lindenberg left to start a solo career and was replaced by Carsten Bohn. Frumpy recorded only two albums, All Will Be Changed (1970) and Frumpy 2 (1971) -- the latter containing the hit single How the Gipsy Was Born. The band was praised as the best German rock act, and Rumpf was declared the greatest individual vocal talent of the German rock scene to date. After Frumpy disbanded, Rumpf founded Atlantis in 1972, with Kravetz and Schott, along with new
