Kristian Draude started playing drums at the age of ten. Four years later he recorded the first album with his band Lazy Strike under Steffi Stefan, producer of German rock-legends like Udo Lindenberg and Peter Maffay.
After getting a lot of live-experience with different Bands and Musicals he moved to Hamburg, the German capital of music, where he formed the Band JAW. In the year 2000 the album No blue peril was released. The band played over 100 concerts all over Europe and was nominated for various German awards.
Besides the band Kristian worked as an engineer, programmer and songwriter for Producer Peter Hoffman, who produced artists like legendary Falco, Oli.P or German shooting stars Tokio Hotel.
In 2001 he concentrated on studio work, produced and wrote for acts like the international selling dance-act ATC, Spanish pop-star Princessa, German Star Search-Kids and many other bands. He buildt his own recording studio (Most Fresh Studio, www.mostfresh.de)
In 2002 he started working with producer Frank Peterson (Enigma, Sarah Brightman, ...), wrote and produced for several Sarah Brightman records (Harem, Live in Las Vegas,...). In 2004 the Song The war is over got an Arabian music award.
Kristian is busy as a studio drummer and plays live concerts, radio- and TV-Shows for Elton John, Sugababes, Chris de Burgh, Ronan Keating, Gregorian, Jasmin Wagner and Palomino.
Kristian has produced music for TV-Shows, short-movies, commercials, web-performances and multi-media applications
