10 Facts About Annette Humpe

Annette Humpe's younger sister Inga Humpe is a musician as well and they have worked on various joint projects.

Annette Humpe achieved first commercial successes in 1979 with the band Neonbabies, which was founded by her and her sister Inga.

Already in 1980, Annette Humpe founded Ideal along with Ernst Ulrich Deuker and Frank Jurgen Kruger.

The Ideal members were close friends of the band Trio, for whom Annette Humpe occasionally performed as a backing vocalist, most notably on the number one single "Da Da Da".

Ideal broke up in 1983 and Annette Humpe first appeared as a record producer.

Annette Humpe produced the first four albums of Die Prinzen and all records were major hits on the charts in the German-speaking countries.

From 1997 to 2002, Annette Humpe entirely retired from the music business for personal reasons.

Annette Humpe writes or co-writes and co-produces all of the songs.

Annette Humpe performs backing vocals and lead vocals on some tracks but Adel Tawil is the main vocalist of the duo.

In 2011, Annette Humpe teamed up with German singer Max Raabe and co-wrote his album, Kussen kann man nicht alleine[1]; a second collaboration, Fur Frauen ist das kein Problem, followed in 2013.