Chris Boltendahl

Chris Boltendahl ( born January 2, 1962 in Gladbeck ) is the lead singer of the German band Grave Digger, photographer and painter.

Life

Together with Peter Masson and Phillip Seibel founded Chris Boltendahl as a teenager, the German metal band Grave Digger in Gladbeck. Initially Boltendahl was not the singer, but the bassist of the group. Only a few weeks before the first record deal he was thrown due to internal disputes in the band, but a short time later retrieved again to participate on the first record called Heavy Metal Breakdown as a singer. Since then he has remained throughout the singer of the band. Boltendahl managed, inter alia, to 1997, the German -American thrash metal band The Company.

When it came to disputes over the rights to use the name of the band of the millennium between Boltendahl and damaligem guitarist Uwe Lulis, the group was on the verge of dissolution. However Lulis lost the dispute and Boltendahl could continue to claim Grave Digger as a band name. Today Boltendahl is the only remaining founding member of the band.

Under the title Grave Digger. The definitive biography in 2002 he brought out a band biography.

As his musical influences called Boltendahl Van Halen, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Accept.

In addition to his work as a musician, he worked as an A & R manager for the Spanish record label Locomotive Records. He is also a photographer and painter.

For 30 years on the stage of Doro Pesch he sang at the Wacken Open Air 2013 with her ​​song East meets West and the quartet with Udo Dirk Schneider Wacken 2011 anthem We are the Metalheads.

Discography

As a permanent member

• See Grave Digger # Discography

As a guest musician

• 2002: Episode 1: A Human into Dreams ' World

• 2010: Tribe of Force