Mr Raoul K was born in 1976 in Agboville in Ivory Coast. In 1992 he left Africa and moved to Hamburg in Germany. There he got more severely involved into music and started to work as a DJ. In 2001 he finished his education as a professional carpenter which he started in 1998. 1999 he left Hamburg and moved to a smaller city in northern Germany called Luebeck. As soon as he moved there he began to set up a homestudio to learn production basics via trial-and-error.