1. Michael Kunze has written the lyrics for a number of hit songs, including the number one Billboard hit "Fly, Robin, Fly", and was one of the top 1970s record producers, producing songs for musical acts Silver Convention, Penny McLean, and Sister Sledge.
Michael Kunze grew up in Southern Germany and attended Klenze Oberrealschule in Munich.
Michael Kunze studied law, philosophy and history at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.
Michael Kunze started writing music and lyrics during his high school years in the early sixties.
The first song Michael Kunze produced with Peter Maffay, a 20-year-old newcomer, was called "Du".
In 1981, Michael Kunze stopped working as a producer but continued to write lyrics for top artists.
Michael Kunze conceived Der Goldene Lowe, the German counterpart to the American Emmy Awards show.
Since the 1990s, Michael Kunze is creating original musicals in his own style.
In September 2009, Michael Kunze gave the keynote speech at Second European Conference of the Musical Theater Educators Alliance International, "A Tale of Two Cities", in Hamburg, Germany.
Michael Kunze's musicals are considered the foundation of a new genre in contemporary musical theater, called the Drama Musical.