Only at the age of 13 did Karl-Heinz Saleh begin piano lessons. As a sixteen-year-old, he began to learn guitar playing autodidactical. In 1978 he began studying dance music and light music at the Dresden Conservatory, which he finished in 1983 as a graduate guitarist and graduate music teacher.
It was followed by years of successful work as a professional musician. He worked among others ten years together with Dieter Beckert as a singer-songwriter and formed the Dresdner guitar duo with Jörg Naßler 1988-2000. From 1985 to 1989 he was musical director at the „Dresdner Theater der Jungen Generation”. During this time he met Gerhard Schöne, Thomas Riedel and H.-Eckardt Wenzel. He worked for many years with them together and he wrote many compositions and arrangements for them. He is responsible for various CD productions of these artists.
Karl-Heinz Saleh is a freelance musician and guitar and e-bass teacher at the Kreismusikschule “Carl Orff” in Grevesmühlen. He is a member of the salon trio “Roter Mohn”, the duo “Die Kompromisten” and the chamber choir “Perlmutt”. (Rainer Stelle)