Dirk Busch

Dirk Busch ( * 1951 in Brunsbüttelkoog, Dithmarschen, Schleswig -Holstein ) is a German singer, composer, songwriter, producer, arranger and sociologist.

Biography

Already with 14 years bush was on stage. At first he was a clarinetist in a Dixieland band. Later he joined as a singer, guitarist and saxophonist in various bands in the Cologne / Dusseldorf. He earned his degree in sociology, economics and psychology at the University of Cologne, where he graduated at age 23. At 25, he was already Dr. rer. pol. and three years later he was appointed professor of sociology at the University of Bremen. This was up in the 1990s, its main activity. He has published several books and research on the subject qualifications and labor market of graduates and led several empirical studies on vocational confluence of academics. Busch later settled on leave at the University because of the growing double burden, as his music career was viable.

He began in the 1980s, his career as a writer and singer. He was, inter alia, Major Companies in the Teldec, Warner and Polydor under contract. His first success was the unusual love song " She bites and scratches " (1985). With "You're no Mona Lisa", he published subsequently many more titles (1988) and others.

With the declaration of love for his native Northern Germany "Do you love also the rough wind," he took in 1991 at the competition of NDR and GEMA " songs as beautiful as the north" part. He landed at No. 2, but was subsequently the only title of the contest, who was 13 weeks in the charts. His lyrics are often self-deprecating (eg his success entitled, "I no longer pull the belly " ) and witty. On the other hand, he has a large number of songs and ballads written and published (such as Come, let us live or Just a short dream ) in which it comes to the finitude and limitations of our human existence over again. Busch has published several hundred titles in six languages. The songs have appeared on more than twenty-five albums and countless singles.

Besides his own songs and writes but he also produced a large number of German and international artists such as Marina Koller, Christopher Dean, Codera, David Scott, Decebal Badila or Milva and Mario Adorf. For the animated film Anastasia, he wrote the German lyrics with his co -author M. Wood Lake.

He is married, father of two adult children and lives in Kirchweyhe near Bremen.