Kristian Schultze
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Kristian Shultze is one half of the German New Age band Cusco. Shultze has partnered up with Michael Holm and the two have produced numerous new age albums. However, Schultze is less prominent of the duo, as Holm has been leading figure in the band's composition. The two met in late 1970s where they discovered they shared a similar interest in pre-colonial America.
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Kristian Schultze, born 21.01.1945 is the son of Norbert Schultze, the composer of "Lili Marleen", and Iwa Wanja, a famous actress and singer in her time. He grew up in Hamburg,Rio de Janeiro and Berlin.He got his musical education at Konservatorium and Musikhochschule Berlin, Wiener Akademie and Jazzschool Graz.He moved to Munich in 1968 where he worked as composer,arranger, producer and musician for various artists, for movies , tv and theater.As a keyboard player ,he joined the group "PASSPORT" of Klaus Doldinger in 1973 and recorded the albums "Looking thru","Cross colateral","Infinity-machine" and "Iguacu" with them.They undertook tours of Asia, U.S.A., Australia and Brazil and, of course, in Germany.In 1977, he left the band and played in the group "Snowball" with Curt Cress (dr), Dave King (b) and Roy Albrighton, the former leadsinger with NEKTAR. 1979 Michael Holm started the studio-project "CUSCO" together with Kristian Schultze as arranger and keyboarder.They produced 21 albums so far.
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