Gunther Mende

Gunther Mende (born June 4, 1952 in Wiesbaden Germany) is a German record producer.

He was six years old when he received his first set of drums. From that point on he loved music. After his Abitur in Mainz, his main subjects were germanistics, politics and philosophy, he worked as a mason and sculptor in the family company After school he earned his first money playing the drums in bands all through Germany. 1976 CBS Frankfurt gave him the opportunity to work as a staff-producer. He produced Red Baron with the frontman Candy de Rouge with whom he continued working after the band was cancelled. He started writing songs for different kinds of groups and solo artists, like Roy Black and Tommy Steiner, before he discovered Jennifer Rush. 1994 he sold his recording studios and moved to Cyprus, where he built his own house.

Gunther Mende's main residence is in Cyprus and periodically he lives in Tirol. He's married with a korean pianist Mee Eun Kim.

He produced stars like Céline Dion, Falco, Jennifer Rush and Tina Turner. Other European Groups he produced were Culcha Candela, Jan Vogler, Udo Lindenberg, Mireille Mathieu, Nena, Sally Oldfield, Helen Schneider, Anna Maria Kaufmann, Cassandra Steen, Bonnie Bianco, Bobby Kimball, Samy Deluxe, The Boss Hoss, Peter Maffay, Sabrina Weckerlin, Sarah Connor, DJ Ötzi, Roger Cicero, Aloha from Hell and David Garrett.

1984 he started his work with Jennifer Rush. Together with Candy de Rouge he produced two albums. Well known songs like “Ring of Ice“, “25 Lovers”, “Destiny” and “The Power of Love” stayed in the Charts up to 30 weeks.

1985 the album “Jennifer Rush” was in the German charts in second place. In the following year the album “Movin” reached first place and became album of the year. Both LPs were on the first and second chart position at the same time and have been successfully published in 16 different countries worldwide. They reached platinum and triple platinum and many different awards.

1994 Gunther Mende produced Nena's album Und alles dreht sich.

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