This is who I am …

Hey I'm Alex! I'm a singer-songwriter rooted in folk, rock, and Americana, born and raised in Germany and now based in Detroit, Michigan. I made the move in 2022, chasing something I couldn’t quite name: a life that had stopped feeling like my own, and a need for change I couldn’t find at home.

I grew up in a loving family in a small village in the countryside of eastern Germany. My parents raised me on 70s and 80s folk and rock, and I have been in love with real instruments and honest sound ever since. As a teenager, I traded my parents’ records for punk and shared my opinions on society with my community, whether they asked or not. Authority and school weren’t really my thing either, and not many people expected much from me. At fifteen, I picked up a guitar and taught myself, mostly without knowing what I was doing. Music theory? Never my thing. I played in bands, learned more instruments, and slowly got better through stubbornness and a good ear. As I grew up, I put my dreams aside and followed the road most traveled. Life was good, a little too good, maybe. In my late twenties, I realized I was living a nice life that wasn’t quite my own. So I packed up and moved to the US to chase something different.

Alone in a new country, with more questions than answers, I turned to music and tried to make sense of it all: who I was, what I’d lost, and what actually mattered. Writing became less about performing and more about processing, a way to sit with hard feelings instead of running from them. That process became my debut album, “Into Something New,” releasing this year. Turns out the kid who skipped music theory still has plenty to say.

I write from the belief that vulnerability isn’t weakness. I don’t believe people fit into one box, and I don’t hide the values I hold. Musically, I’m drawn to anything honest, regardless of genre, but my own sound leans on the giants who came before me (Dylan, Cash, Springsteen, and Neil Young), filtered through the newer voices reshaping the same tradition, like Zach Bryan and Noah Kahan.