Claudius Rieth was born in 1972 in Lima, Perú. He always grew up with music around. At the age of nine years he began taking piano lessons and recording and listening to music with his portable cassette player.
In 1984, when he was 11 years old, his family moved to Buchholz, a small city in Germany nearby Hamburg. There, he learned to know everything related with rock music, played for the first time with some friends and entered this new musical world. He always went on taking piano lessons, but started using the classical techniques for improvising and composing for a band named Alas. With the band, they played a lot in the early nineties in Germany and even in France.
