During his studies at
University of Cologne, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in
musicology, Christian Jahl published his first poems in 1999 at
Martin Werhand Verlag in the poetry anthology entitled
Junge Lyrik. The following publication was a historical photo book about the city of
Meerbusch in 2002, where he went to grammar school at Städtisches Meerbusch-Gymnasium. In 2003 he wrote a musicological analysis of the music of the British musician
Sting entitled
Sting – Die Musik eines Rockstars which was published in Germany. The guitarist or keyboardist Christian Jahl worked live and as a studio musician in many different projects with artists like David Graham, Thomas Battenstein or singer and actress Isabell Classen amongst others. He also wrote and produced music for trailers and different media usage. As the only German artist he participated in the international US-project The Beatles Complete on Ukulele created by the renowned New York based producers David Barratt and
Roger Greenawalt with the song
If I Needed Someone by
George Harrison of
The Beatles, which he produced as the German version
Wenn ich einmal jemanden brauche. Continuing publications in literature and music like the pop-rock album
Café Deutschland followed. To support his football club
Fortuna Düsseldorf to go up to the
1. Bundesliga in 2012 he wrote and produced a single called
Sonne des Westens. He lives in Düsseldorf and is strongly related to the
Rhineland. == Books ==