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 Ratajczak at With Full Force 2018 | |
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| Born | 7 August 1985 Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
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| Member of | Electric Callboy |
Kevin Ratajczak (born 7 August 1985) is a German musician. He is a founding member and, along with Nico Sallach, one of two frontmen in the metalcore band Electric Callboy.
Ratajczak made his first experiences with "heavier music" as a child with his father's Deep Purple records. [1]
In 2010, he founded the group Eskimo Callboy in Castrop-Rauxel together with Sebastian "Sushi" Biesler, Daniel "Danskimo" Haniß, Daniel Klossek, Michael Malitzki, and Pascal Schillo. While Biesler took on lead vocals, Ratajczak provided the shouting from the start. The band grew steadily in the following years, was able to place all of their studio albums in the German charts and toured as a support for Papa Roach and other internationally known groups. In 2020, Nico Sallach replaced Biesler as lead singer and the group achieved viral success with the single Hypa Hypa including a music video. In 2021, together with his new singing colleague, he moderated the podcast Ober Kante Unterlippe, which was broadcast in the night program of Rock Antenne. [2] After the band released the singles We Got the Moves and Pump It, they renamed the band Electric Callboy in 2022. The first studio album with Sallach, Tekkno, was released a little later and reached number one in the German Album Charts.
Ratajczak has been married since 2021 and is the father of a son. [3] [4]
Ratajczak is Electric Callboy's unclean vocalist. He sings, mostly in the Shouting style, above all the verses of the band songs, whereas he himself jokingly sees his clean singing voice on "Michael Wendlers level". . [5] He writes the lyrics together with the lead singer Nico Sallach. [6] [7] Ratajczak names Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco as a role model. [8]
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