Mani Neumeier

German vocalist and drummer born December 31, 1940 in Munich.
After he spent his childhood in Munich, his family moved to Zurich, Switzerland, when he was 13. He worked as plumber and started a career as musician in his spare time. In 1964 he became jazz drummer for artist 737628, where he was bandmate of Uli Trepte. In that time, he invented the "Mani Tom", an instantly re-tunable instrument, from which he gained attention of many contemporyra Jazz musicians. He collaborated with numerous Jazz musicians as artist 280940, Peter Brötzmann, Manfred Schoof and artist 319931 amongst others.
In 1968, Trepte and him turned towards Rock music and that year they co-founded Guru Guru in Heidelberg. The band got quickly in contact with contemporary famous bands as Tangerine Dream or artist 201946. Being in their early days a political and partially satirical band, the develloped to a more experimental and also mainstream oriented Rock band. Besides some temporary splits of the band, Neumeier stayed part of the line-up more than 50 years. From the 1980's, Neumeier also went solo with a slightly higher focus on electronic music and also reminiscences on jazz music.
He went especially famous in Japan, where a sculpture of him is part of a wax museum since 1996.