Ralph Ruppert

Ralph Ruppert (aka Ralph 'P' Ruppert), is a German record producer who emigrated from Frankfurt, Germany to the United Kingdom in August 1985 and is currently based in London.
Early life
Ruppert was born in Marburg a.d. Lahn, Germany in 1959, the first child to Heinz Ruppert and second child to Waltraud Magdalena Ruppert. Following the divorce of his parents in 1972, Ruppert grew up with his mother and four year older half brother Michael Mario Ruppert in the spa town of Bad Homburg, Germany where he spent his entire youth until the year 1985. There he attended the Friedrich Ebert Schule primary school from 1966 to 1969 and the secondary schools Realschule Bad Homburg and Gesamtschule Bad Homburg, Germany between 1970 and 1973. Ruppert completed his school years between 1973 and 1975 at the Georg Kerschensteiner-Schule, Bad Homburg, Germany. Following his school years, Ruppert successfully completed an apprenticeship and obtained a qualification in Business Management at Braun in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany in 1977. Ruppert then attended the Fachoberschule Oberursel fuer Betriebswirtschaft for one year between 1978 and 1979 during which time he first discovered and developed his interest in music and sound engineering.
Career
He signed an exclusive Producers contract with CBS Records (now Sony Music Entertainment) in 1985 to produce the Berlin/Liverpool duo Picnic At The Whitehouse, a studio project formed by Berlin-based keyboardist Ilfo Debusmann. The original recording of their first single "We Need Protection" featured the then still unknown Terence Trent D'arby on lead vocals which were replaced later by vocals performed by Liverpool vocalist Eddie Hind.
"We Need Protection" was a Top Ten single in many mainland Europe countries. The original version featuring Terence Trent D'arby was never commercially released.
Ruppert has produced and engineered commercially successful songs and albums for numerous German, British and international artists. He received Gold and Platinum records awards for his sound engineering work with Scottish pop band Wet Wet Wet and American born singer-songwriter Terence Trent D'arby. As a producer, he has had chart success with Picnic At The Whitehouse, Ellis, Beggs & Howard, The Scientist, The Buzzcocks and Messiah. Ruppert has worked as an engineer or remix engineer on record releases from Stevie Wonder, Primal Scream, Prodigy, Boney M, Jennifer Rush, Malcolm Mclaren, Michael Rose from Black Uhuru and Gregory Isaacs. He is also one of the co-founders and owned a significant stake in the recording company Millennium Records, Headroom Studios London and a music publishing company, Millennium Songs.

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