Education
Bursy first completed an apprenticeship as a machine and plant mechanic and later a distance learning course at the music school "Hanns Eisler".
Bursy first completed an apprenticeship as a machine and plant mechanic and later a distance learning course at the music school "Hanns Eisler".
From 1977 to 1979, he sang in the hard rock band Regenbogen (Rainbow). This was the result of a school band formed with friends, the program consisted mainly of re-enacted songs by Uriah Heep and Deep Purple. He was known to a wider audience through the song "Du machst mich verliebt" (You make me love you) under the National Youth Festival band of the German Democratic Republic in 1978.
From 1979 to 1981, he was then lead singer of the band Keks (Biscuit) before joining the band Prinzip (Principle) in 1982.
After separation from the band in July 1986, he began a solo career under the stage name Ralf Bummi Bursy. Musically, he was accompanied by Conny Bauer (trombone), Ferry Grott (trombone), Rene Decker (saxophone), Reinhard Petereit (guitar), Judit Tudor (background), and the popular-jazz band Flair.
In 1989, the German Democratic Republic-record label Amiga released two albums of Bursy and another one was published in 1992 by the Amiga successor Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The LP "Wind im Gesicht" (Wind in your face) sold more than 100,000 copies in the German Democratic Republic. Six years later, with BMG, a newly chosen selection of his most famous songs was released. After 1992 he worked as a producer for Nena, Veronika Fischer and Prime Minister Sampson among others and for the company Jay Kay Music Entertainment.