[2] His father's family is descended from Huguenots, but has lived in Brandenburg for two generations; the mother was the daughter of the head director and opera singer Georg Buttlar.

In 1967 he was solo guitarist in the Kiel based psychedelic rock band "Chimes of Freedom", later renamed by its manager to "Die Anderen" (The Others).

[3] In that same year, Drews took on his first acting role as a student and musician in the German film comedy Zur Hölle mit den Paukern.

He lives in Dülmen-Rorup in Germany and spends a lot of his time working on the Spanish island Majorca, where he styles himself as the King of Majorca ("König von Mallorca") since being called that on prime-time German television by Thomas Gottschalk in the show Wetten, dass..?.

[9] It was called "König von Mallorca – Kultbistro" and is decorated with memorabilia and awards from Drews' music career.