Kevin Russell

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Kevin Richard Russell (* 12 January 1964 in Hamburg is a German musician and belongs to the three founding members of the German rock band Böhse Onkelz. Since 1980 until the breakup of the band in the year 2005 he was their singer.

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Kevin Russell grew up as the youngest of three children (one sister and one brother). His father, originally from Britain, worked at this time as a pilot for Lufthansa. His mother was an alcoholic, which had a negative impact on family conditions. Russell visited occasionally the six-form high school, but exited without graduating, and finally tried to graduate by spending a year taking vocational classes in an electrician-training school.

In 1977 he and his family moved from Hamburg to Hösbach. There he became acquainted with Peter Schorowsky and Stephan Weidner. Together they founded the band "Böhse Onkelz".

Russell worked as a mechanic on a ship, and later in the tattoo studio of his friend.

He suffered from substantial drug- and alcohol problems, but was clean since 1994. After a relapse in January 2006 Kevin was put into an artificial coma.

His characteristic is his very rough and brutal voice.