- He had an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to bass registers.
- His brother Horst Rippert, nine years his senior, confirmed that he had shot down the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the famous French author of "The Little Prince", in 1944 (March 2008).
- Lived in the small town Zell-Weierbach near Offenburg in Germany and also on on the Sporade Island of Skopelos, Greece since the 1960s.
- He has performed over 6,000 concerts in his career including a two year six-days-a-week stint at the French Ppera singing, among other greats, "The Fiddler on the Roof".
- Holds Greek citizenship.
- Born to an German engineer and his wife, who was Russian, according to the singer.
- He had a long career as a singer in France, where he passed himself as Russian, and always wore Russian fur hats onstage. He was also fluent in French, which he spoke with only a slight accent.
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