Growing up in South America, Mr. Ken discovered his passion for teaching and music at the age of 5.
In 2000 he got his teaching degree for elementary education (grades 1 – 6) and taught for several years in his bilingual (German / Spanish) community.
Mr. Ken wrote and recorded songs for a children’s program of a local radio station in Paraguay, where he worked for 5 years.
He performed at numerous children festivals, in local churches, youth events and weddings.
Ken and his wife moved to Canada at the end of 2003 where he became a freelance story writer for children and a Montessori Teacher.
Currently he teaches in a Montessori Preschool where he is known as Mr. Ken with Taka, the guitarra.
Sound recordings
- 1999 Simple Boys (Ken and Rüdiger) released Dance Machine 1 and 2, Loma Plata Paraguay
- 2002 Sawatzky’s Liederwelt 1 and 2, Loma Plata Paraguay
- 2005 (With Daniel Klaue and cooperation of Family Life Network) Low German Album Horizonte, Winnipeg Canada
- 2007 (Dietschboys with Daniel Klaue and cooperation of Family Life Network) Unja däm Räajanboage, Winnipeg Canada
- 2008 (trio with Vern and Christina Neufeld as 3molPlaut) 3molPlaut, Winnipeg Canada
- 2009 (trio with Vern and Christina Neufeld as 3molPlaut) Räd nicht plaut, Winnipeg Canada
- 2010 English Kids EP – Sing, Play, Live
- 2011 Multilingual Kids Album “Smiles Around The World”
Writing
- 2007 published his first story “Dee latzta Dröm” <The last dream> through Wacholz Verlag in Hamburg, Germany

