Luis Rodriguez (sometimes credited as Luis Rodriguez-Salazar or Luis Rodolfo Rodriguez Friedländer) started in mid-seventies as a singer.
He is mostly known as the co-producer, arranger, mixer and engineer behind the eighties-era euro-disco sound of
Modern Talking.
Luis Rodriguez co-produced such artists as
C.C. Catch,
Blue System,
Chris Norman (ex-
Smokie),
Bonnie Tyler,
Les McKeown (ex-
Bay City Rollers),
Errol Brown (ex-
Hot Chocolate) etc.
In mid-eighties he worked on numerous projects like
New Baccara,
Mike Mareen,
Chicano,
T. Ark,
Sweet Connection etc.
In mid-nineties he had a big success a producer with project
Fun Factory.
With vocals of his wife Josephine Hiebel Luis made a string of dance-projects such as:
Creative Connection,
Josy,
Lian Ross,
Jobel,
Dana Harris (3) etc.
In his own Star Studio (or Studio 33) Luis Rodriguez worked with
Ralf Stemmann,
Rolf Köhler,
Michael Scholz,
Detlef Wiedeke,
Geff Harrison and so on.
Nowadays Luis keeps on working on various projects:
2 Eivissa (No1 in Spain in 1997),
David Tavaré (No1 in Spain in 2006),
Matthias Reim,
Mark Ashley (2),
Oliver Lukas and, of course, with
Lian Ross.