Rio Reiser

Play Radio

977,471 plays (99,359 listeners)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Rio Reiser Ringtones to Cell
Buy
Add to my Library
Rio Reiser (January 9, 1950 - August 20, 1996), was a German rock musician and singer of the famous rock group Ton Steine Scherben. He was born Ralph Möbius in Berlin and died at the age of 46 in the little German town of Fresenhagen.

Some critics say that Rio Reiser created a new image of a German folk singer; he was even called a “Schlager” artist (a genre of German folk music), and a “Volksmusik” musician (sometimes translated as “folk music”, but in a literary sense it means music of the people). To other critics, Rio Reiser was simply a singer in a rock band. However, Reiser sometimes approved of being referred to a Volksmusik musician, because he thought that this would simply mean he sang music for the people.

His father was an engineer for Siemens AG, and the family moved several times because of his father’s work; they lived in Berlin, Oberbayern, Nürnberg, Mannheim, and Stuttgart. Reiser was never really able to feel at home in any of these places. Many of his friends said, when they were asked in an interview which was broadcast on the TV-channel arte in 1998, that he started playing music to create a place where he felt at home.

Reiser was known by his friends as someone who had a very special mind of his own. For example he managed to persuade his mother Erika Möbius that he was allowed to stop attending school and start an apprenticeship in a studio for photography. She believed that he was an autodidact; he never learned things when he was taught by someone else. Thus he taught himself how to play cello, guitar, the piano and other instruments.
Share this artist:

Top Albums

  • Rio I.
    Rio Reiser Play
    Buy
  • Blinder Passagier
    Rio Reiser Play
    Buy
  • Am Piano II
    Rio Reiser Play
    Buy
  • Junimond - Die Balladen
    Rio Reiser Play
    Buy
See more

Top Tracks

1
235
2
144
3  
121
4
58
5
55
6
53
7
50
8
36
8
36
10
30
11
29
12
25
13
24
14
23
14
23
Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3
See more

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
  • Lendadal

    Danke Herr Reiser!

    July 2011
  • XsokratesX

    Die verlinkten Gruppen sind echt purer Hohn.

    March 2011
  • Peasant_93

    Die Zeit vergeht und so viel bleibt im Straßenstaub Wird uns fremd wie ein Bild von daheim Alles längst verschwunden - alles überwunden Und doch War da viel mehr als ein Spiel

    January 2011
  • orn77

    meine erste CD!

    September 2010
  • BelaFarinRod87

    R.I.P. RIO...kaum zu glauben, dass du schon 14 Jahre nicht mehr unter uns weilst ;(

    August 2010
  • JimtheRipper

    wann wenn nicht jetzt, wo wenn nicht hier..Weniges bleibt für die Ewigkeit. Rio , für immer und dich!

    August 2010
  • silasaltah

    Einer der großartigsten Menschen, jeher!!!

    August 2010
  • coleman17

    <3

    July 2010
See all 78 shouts

Videos

See more

Listening Now

Top Listeners

See more

More Information

Links
Labels