Musiker und Songwriter.
Billie Ray Martin über Franz Stegmann: "... After my first band in Berlin, 'Billie and the Deep', who were incredibly successful instantly but didn't last long, me and Franz Stegmann formed a duo called "The Idiot Cards'. We wrote about fourty songs or so in a short space of time. It was the first time i realised i could write lyrics. I had not written many melodies at this point, as Franz gave me the melodies on a cassette with no words, just humming and gibberish. I turned them all into meaningful songs. Franz claimed that i could read his mind; that was how close the words were to what he had envisioned in his mind's eye. We grew incredibly close as a unit and Franz changed his name to Francis Lee Martin, in a kind of 'Carpenters' style attempt to be like brother and sister. ..." - https://billieraymartin.bandcamp.com/album/four-ambient-tales, 27.12.2020
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