Till Lindemann is a German singer, musician, actor and poet, the permanent vocalist of the Rammstein band since 1994 and the leader of the Lindemann industrial music band since 2015.
Till Lindemann was born on January 4, 1963 in Leipzig (GDR) in the family of children's poet Werner Lindemann and writer Brigitte Hildegard "Gitta" Lindemann. Till has a younger sister named Saskia. As a teenager, Till achieved some success in sports: in 1978 he participated in the European Youth Swimming Championships, which took place in Florence, finishing 11th in the 1500-meter freestyle and 7th in the 400-meter freestyle. . After that, Lindemann was included in the German national team to participate in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, but he failed to perform in the Russian capital. After an injury to the abdominal muscles received during training, Till retired from the sport. Lindemann later said that he did not like to study at a sports school because of the enormous workload.
In the mid-80s, Lindemann became interested in music. In 1986, he became the drummer of the punk rock band First Arsch and sometimes performed with the Feeling B band. The musicians staged their concerts outside the city, at abandoned construction sites and empty factories. According to Till, at such events, musicians and listeners had to be constantly wary of the arrival of the police. Young Till Lindemann After some time, Till left music lessons, but not for long.
In 1993, guitarist Richard Kruspe, a friend of Till, invited Lindemann to try himself as a vocalist in his new band. After much persuasion, Till moved from the city of Schwerin, where he lived in recent years, to Berlin for a trial recording. Rammstein. The Beginning Although Lindemann had a hard time getting used to the new role, the young band immediately applied for participation in the Berlin Metrobeat competition. To participate in the festival, the guys prepared their demo-recordings, which were created in the apartment. Unexpectedly for young musicians, their group won the competition, and far-reaching prospects opened up before the guys. The official date of birth of the group is 1994. Soon, musicians from Feeling B joined the new group - rhythm guitarist Paul Landers and keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz. For some time the band was nameless, but in the end the name "Rammstein" was chosen, which means "ram stone" in German (later the musicians claimed that they named the band in memory of the tragic collision over the Ramstein airbase in 1988).
In 1994, the group signed a contract with Motor Music and released their first album a year later. After the release of the disc "Rammstein" went on tour in Europe, still together with other musicians. The soloist's unusual voice, unusual lyrics and crazy performances (the musicians loved to arrange pyrotechnic shows) did not always resonate in the hearts of the audience: for example, in Poland, Rammstein was pelted with bottles.
After David Lynch used two Rammstein songs in his film Lost Highway, the band's fame spread beyond Europe. Soon the musicians went on tour to another continent. During a US tour with Korn in 1998, Till and Flacke were arrested for indecent behavior on stage. The musicians were released the next day after bail was paid.
Released in 2001, the album Mutter instantly wrote the band into the history of music. A video was recorded for the lead single of the album of the same name, in which the narration was conducted on behalf of a man conceived in a test tube who killed his mother.
Every year the popularity only grew, and the musicians did not get tired of shocking the audience with spectacular performances and gloomy video clips. Lindemann was ready for any tricks to stun the fans. For example, during the filming of the video for the song "Ich tu dir weh", Lindemann wished that light came from his mouth and asked to make a cut in his left cheek for a wire and a light bulb.
In 2005, five Rammstein albums went platinum and the band received the World SalesAwards for over 10 million copies sold worldwide.
Over the years of activity, the Rammstein guys have earned a rather scandalous reputation in the eyes of individual religious and social activists. They tried to ban Rammstein songs and videos in many countries, and Russia did not escape this fate. In 2016, parliamentarian Roman Khudyakov appealed to Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky with a request to ban the performances of the German group in the country because of the propaganda of sadism, cannibalism and homosexuality. Rammstein proposed to be banned in Russia One of the band's most famous videos, for the song Mein Teil ("Part of me"), was based on real events. In 2001, the German Armin Meiwes searched the World Wide Web for a person who would agree to be eaten. Programmer Juergen Brandes responded to the ad. They became lovers; Meiwes subsequently killed Brandeis, kept his meat in a freezer, and gradually ate it. Upon learning of this act of cannibalism,
Till was inspired to create the song. In some countries, the clip was severely censored, such as the removal of a scene in which an angel orally satisfies Lindemann. The theme of cannibalism was played up at live performances: Til went on stage in a leather apron and with a butcher's knife in his hands, and a huge cauldron with Flake sitting in it was carried out onto the stage.
Each concert of Rammstein turns into a grandiose show At one time, many parents who decided to join the interests of their children were shocked by the Pussy clip (slang for “pussy”, “female genital organ”). The 4-minute video had a lot of explicit angles, including scenes with naked musicians (although in some scenes they were replaced by doubles). This song has a no less outrageous live performance - during its performance, Till, as a rule, sat down on an assembly resembling a male penis and poured white foam on the audience. Live performance of "Pussy" In 2013, Lindemann announced the band's sabbatical. In May 2015, he also announced the start of work on a new Rammstein album. According to the singer, it was supposed to last until 2017. In March 2017, it became known that 35 tracks were ready, but the question of the release date of the disc remained open.
In 2000, Swedish musician Peter Tägtren of the death metal band Hypocrisy and the industrial band Pain helped the guys from Ramstein curb bikers who were asking for a fight. A friendship struck up between the musicians, but they were not able to find time to record a record in their busy schedules for a long time.
On his 52nd birthday in 2015, Till announced the creation of a side project "Lindemann" with Peter Tägtgren. The debut album Skills in Pills was released in June 2015 and took first place in the national music chart. Soon, the friends presented the clip “Praise Abort” (“Bless the abortion”), which is not inferior in outrageousness to the previous clips invented by Lindemann.
In 2019, the band Rammstein with Till released their seventh studio album - fans had to wait for it for 10 years since the release of the previous one. In the same year, Till released an independent album F & M.