In 1979 Humpe founded the band Neonbabies together with her sister Annette in Berlin. In 1981 the band released a self-titled album featuring Inga on lead-vocals. Her sister left to form the band Ideal prior to the release. After two further German-language albums, the band folded in 1983. In the same year, she featured on the self-titled DÖF album produced by Annette that spawned the single "Codo" featuring her vocals. In 1984, she featured and co-produced the
Palais Schaumburg album
Parlez-vous Schaumburg with
Gareth Jones. The following year, she rejoined her sister to form the duo Humpe & Humpe and released a self-titled album which contained the single "Yamaha". The song was particularly successful in Japan during 1985, and it was released with a memorable split-screen video featuring the sisters. In 1987, they released the new wave/pop oriented album
Swimming with Sharks in the English language. At this time, they were marketed outside Germany (mainly in the UK market) without the bandname Humpe and Humpe as it was felt it would cause confusion, so the bandname was changed to Swimming with Sharks as well. and
Howard Jones. Humpe's first solo album was released in 1990 under the title
Planet Oz, where she collaborated with a number of producers and writers. It included the single "
Riding into Blue (Cowboy Song)", written and produced by Trevor Horn. She also worked with
Thomas Fehlman and
Andy Richards and recorded covers of "
Somethin' Stupid" and the Pet Shop Boys' "
Do I Have To".
Falco and
Marc Almond. She also co-wrote a number of songs for others, including "
Automatic Love" for Kylie Minogue. In 2000 she formed the duo
2raumwohnung with her life partner Tommi Eckart, with whom she has been producing mostly electronic music in Germany. In 2019, she published the co-authored book
Wir trafen uns in einem Garten with photographs, biographical details and song lyrics. ==References==