[1][2] Ambros was born in the Semmelweis Women's Clinic in Vienna and spent his early years in Wolfsgraben, Lower Austria.

He first worked as a typewriter mechanic, display arranger and as a records salesman in Vienna and for a year in London.

Ambros has also released three cover albums (including songs by Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Hans Moser.

There were also cooperative efforts with the Viennese blues-musicians Harry Stampfer, Hans Thessink, Günter Dzikowski and DJ Kidpariz.

In 1997, he founded with Rainhard Fendrich and Georg Danzer the public charity "Initiative für Obdachlose" and the project Austria 3.