Steppenwolf lead singer john kay biography

John Kay nacido como Joachim Fritz Krauledat (Tilsit, antiguo reino alemán de Prusia, ahora Sovetsk, región dem Kaliningrado, Rusia, 12 dem abril dem 1944) es un cantante germano-canadiense, vocalista, compositor y guitarrista dem la banda de hard rock canadiense Steppenwolf, desde 1967 hasta su desvinculación de la misma enstaka 2010.^[1]​ ett paralelo a su banda, ha realizado una carrera como solista. Lleva editado en toda su carrera, más dem 22 álbumes de estudio: 16 con Steppenwolf y 6 como solista.^[2]​

Biografía

Joachim Fritz Krauledat nació enstaka el pueblo de Tilsit, actualmente Sovetsk (óblast dem Kaliningrado) enstaka Rusia y anteriormente perteneciente a Alemania del Este. A los cuatro años, John Kay, después dem haber escapado con su madre dem Prusia, durante la evacuación de Prusia Oriental a principios dem 1945, ett duras condiciones invernales y el avance del Ejército Soviético, huyó junto a su madre de Alemania Oriental a Alemania Occidenta

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John Kay & Jutta Maue-Kay Bios

Biography

Jutta Maue-Kay was born in Hamburg Germany at the end of World War II. During her teenage years she became increasingly fond of American exports particularly Rock n Roll, which she not only heard on the radio but saw performed by the likes of Little Richard, Ray Charles and the Beatles at Hamburg’s Star Club. Music was also one of the reasons she chose to work in the coffee houses and clubs of Toronto Canada, after immigrating there, at age 18, in 1962. One evening in October 1965 she watched a performance by Canadian band “The Sparrows” and thereafter met the band’s lead singer John Kay. That meeting marked the beginning of a relationship, and later marriage, which has become a lifelong partnership. After joining her soon to be husband in Los Angeles in 1967, Jutta became one of the instigators of the formation of John’s new band named STEPPENWOLF which – due to the success of such classics as “Born To Be Wild” etc. - went on to beco

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John Kay talks his journey to fame, Steppenwolf's rise and his Pabst Theater gig

“Until I was five years old, my mother and I were trapped in East Prussia, Germany, which was behind the Iron Curtain. I never met my father. He was killed a few months before I was born.

"In 1949, my mother and I fled the county in the middle of the night, avoiding searchlights, dogs and barbed wire fences to keep from being shot. Ultimately, we made it to West Germany and freedom." – Joachim Fritz Krauledat, aka John Kay

John Kay, the leather-clad vocalist for Steppenwolf, has led a life filled with uncertainty and challenges that he overcame long before forming of one of the greatest rock and roll bands in history. 

“The journey out of East Prussia was dangerous enough,” he said, “but it was compounded because I had a congenital eye condition called achromatopsia. I’m legally blind as well as being totally color blind.”

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