Martin Reinhard is a multifaceted musician from the heart of Germany. Martin, born in 1982, grew up in a small village in northern Bavaria. In his father’s brass band he learned to play the trumpet. He taught himself guitar as a teenager. His main
inspirations were Neil Young and Mark Knopfler.
After leaving school, he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial mechanic. During his military service, he played trumpet, French horn, and guitar in various military music corps. Since the early 2000s, Martin has been on the road with different formations in Franconia, from brass music and Bavarian folk music to blues-rock and country music.
Martin is valued for his versatile voice and his expressive playing on the guitar, blues harp, and trumpet. These instruments also
repeatedly find a place in his own songs, which he writes, records, and produces himself.
Since settling with his family in Aschaffenburg, he has loved writing songs about everyday things or moving stories. His muse and
support is his family, his wife Marija, and his two sons Luka and Bruno.
In May 2026, Martin released the single Don’t Stop Being A Child. Martin had already recorded a song for his first son Luka, Christmas in Your Eyes, and felt the desire and need to dedicate a song to Bruno as well.
The idea came in 2025 during a vacation in Hercegovina. Every summer, they spend a few weeks in Marija’s homeland near Međugorje, as referred to in Martin’s song The Balkan Way.
When Martin watched Bruno play, from out of the blue, he kept coming up with new exciting ideas. In the evenings he told him about his plans to one day sail on the Titanic or fly on Concorde. As a child, you don’t really think about whether that’s possible or not. You just do it, Martin said.
Martin said he found that very inspiring, and, for a moment, he wished Bruno would stay a child forever – so joyful, carefree, and free. At the same time, he felt this thought as a call to himself as an adult. One should never forget the child within or deny it, Martin said.
“And Bruno will one day grow up too and have his cards in his own hands,” he said.
‘Ultimately, as parents we accompany our children only for a certain time, so that we can one day let them go. And every dad knows this feeling of having to give his son a few good pieces of advice.
“So, on that hot afternoon, I grabbed my guitar and wrote the song. It didn’t take long, because it was such an authentic moment. The words were tangible, the music almost fell into place by itself unlike, for example, Old Sam, where I had a fictional figure in mind and had to develop the story and the message.
Don’t Stop Being A Child was recorded at Martin’s home. As with most of his songs, he played all the instruments himself. He is currently working on his first album which will also include, as well as the songs previously mentioned, 20 Inches.
Martin performs with his band Nochtschicht, playing the songs of his idols including Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler.
