Yaris Makkay grew up in Mallorca, now he’s in Germany to become a rock star – like his famous father Peter Maffay. He had to learn the first hard lessons in business.
Just Yaris. It must be enough. Even his last name would be too much of a label: Makkay. Everyone would immediately hear the name of the all-powerful father: Peter Maffay. “Not the son of…” is one of the most used phrases in his first interviews. Now that Yaris Makkay is starting his own musical career with his first two songs “Feel” and “That’s Us”, he wants to show his own strengths. He does this under the larger-than-life portrait of Keith Richards in the office of his father, Germany’s most successful rock musician. Here in the headquarters of Peter Maffay’s Red Roster Musikproduktion GmbH in Tutzing, which is wallpapered with gold records, he works during the day.