Karl Rüdiger "Purple" Schulz (born 25 September 1956 in Cologne) is a German pop singer.
The nickname "Purple" came from covering Deep Purple tunes as a 13-year-old.
He had his greatest successes in the 1980s.
[1][2] Some of Purple Schulz's songs are noted for highbrow literary references; his „Sehnsucht“ of 1983 cites the poet Eichendorff's „Sehnsucht.“[3]