Jörg Evers

German musician, composer and producer, born 21.06.1950 in Bayreuth. He has worked in various musical genres, and since 2009 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the German rights society GEMA. Evers died February 12th, 2023.
He studied music in Munich in the late 1960's and started as guitar player in Krautrock bands of the Munich scene in the early 1970's. In 1971, he joined Embryo, he switched to Sameti in 1972 and was co-founder of supergroup 18 Karat Gold in 1973. The band became accompanying band of Peter Maffay the same year. In the mid 1970's, he started activities as songwrite and arranger and in the late 1970's, he was co-founder of Munich's first Punk band PACK, which was a reincarnation of Krautrock band Sameti. One of his last steps as active musician was the guitar part for the late Amon Düül II in 1981. At the same time, he already started as producer, one of his first produced bands was the German New Wave band United Balls from Munich. In the 1980's, he successfully worked as producer for many bands and artists, as well as producer of TV and film scores (e.g. the score for Germany's TV show "Herzblatt", the score of "Werner - Beinhart (opens in a new tab)" amongst others). His way from underground to mainstream music evolved in the 1980's and 1990's as an award-winning producer for mainstream acts.
In the late 1990's, he became executive for music rights societies, first in Bavaria from 1997. In 2002, he became member of the supervisory board of German rights society GEMA, he was their chairman from 2009 to 2012.