Ralf Hütter born 20 August 1946 is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1969 On 12 May 2021 Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Hütter was born on 20 August 1946 in Krefeld Germany In 2009 he lived near Düsseldorf Hütter also has a daughter named Elsa who also produces music He met Florian Schneider while studying improvisation at the Robert Schumann Hochschule He is a vegetarian Hütter is a secretive musician who avoids interviews Hütter is an enthusiastic cycling fan a fact reflected in some of the bands work It was widely claimed that when he was on tour the groups bus would drop off Hütter 100 miles away from the next venue and he would cycle the rest of the way a story that Hütter later confirmed The band members took up cycling when recording the album The ManMachine in the late 1970s Ralf Hütter had been looking for a new form of exercise The single Tour de France includes sounds that follow this theme including bicycle chains gear mechanisms and the breathing of the cyclist At the time of the singles release Ralf Hütter tried to persuade the rest of the band that they should record a whole album based around cycling At the time this did not happen but the project eventually was released as Tour de France Soundtracks in 2003 Hütter was involved in a serious cycling accident in May or June 1982 during the initial period of recording for the 1986 album Electric Café He was in a coma as a result Karl Bartos claimed the first thing Hütter said when he awoke from his coma was Where is my bicycle a story Hütter later disputed in a June 2009 interview in The Guardian Source Article Ralf Hütter from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30
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