Deuter，全名 Chaitanya Deuter，出生在德国的一个名叫Falkenhagen的小镇上，曾学习过长笛，后来自学了吉他，但一直没有发展自己的音乐事业。然而，1970年的一次几乎致命的车祸让他鼓起信心去追求自己的梦想。他的首张专辑于1971年由Kuckuck公司发行。这么多年来，Deuter 对于精神领域探索带他走遍了全世界，最多到访的是印度，他曾居住在阿什拉姆乡间的供静养之地研究印度音乐，并录制了多张专集。 　　作为全球新世纪音乐的主要音乐人之一，似乎 Deuter 就是为新世纪音乐而生。他的音乐往往体现的不止是音乐本身，通常还有其他的内涵。如同许多擅长现代乐器的艺术家一样，Deuter 将合声电子乐器、宗教音素和自然音素结合起来。音乐风格以舒缓的旋律和欢愉的节奏为特点，并且他将东西方不同的风格一起融合进音乐中，同样使之大受欢迎。 　　在静心冥想和心理治疗音乐领域上，德国音乐家 Deuter 是一位举世闻名的先锋者与领航员。在他将近30年的音乐生涯里，他浸淫不同文化的传统音乐，同时发展出被全世界认同的独特新世纪冥想音乐风格。他的作品完美地把他所专精的放松、冥想意境诠释在平静和谐的音符中。因此，Deuter 的音乐成了心理治疗师和身体工作者（SPA，Massage）的最爱，在医药及心理治疗师的临床实验更是备受欢迎。聆听 Deuter 的音乐，可以让心灵享受平静、和谐的力量，充满喜悦。 　　Born in 1945 in post-war Germany in the town of Falkenhagen, Deuter taught himself the guitar, flute, harmonica and "just about every instrument I could get my hands on," though it wasn’t until after a near-fatal car crash in his early twenties that he decided to pursue a career in music. His first release in 1971, titled D, is widely acknowledged as a Krautrock classic. D marked the beginning of Deuter’s spiritual and musical journey, ostensibly paving the way for a new genre of music known as New Age, which combined acoustic and electronic elements with ethnic instrumentation and nature sounds, such as whale and bird song, the open sea, wind in the trees, etc. 　　During the 1970s and 1980s Deuter, after travelling extensively in Asia in search of spiritual and creative inspiration, settled for a long time in Pune, India, where under the name Chaitanya Hari he became a neo-sannyasin — a disciple of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who later changed his name to Osho. With the aid of a multitrack tape machine, living in the neo-sannyas ashram, he produced a series of music tapes to be used in "active meditations", consisting of several "stages" of ten or fifteen minutes each, which range between, and often merge, Indian classical motifs, fiery drums, loops, synthesisers, bells, musique concrète and pastoral acoustic passages. These works, constructed to the master's instructions in consultation with a team of disciples testing the meditation methods, deserve recognition for their purely functional or objective origination as well as for their originality, power and sometimes beauty. 　　In the early 1990s, Deuter — who always retained his professional name — ended his long standing relationship with Kuckuck, the small record label that had released nearly 20 original Deuter albums in as many years, and relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he signed a deal with New Earth Records, an independent label founded by fellow sannyasins Bhikkhu Schober and Waduda Paradiso. This proved to be a lucrative move for all involved, as Deuter's New Earth Records releases, the majority of them intended to accompany various healing and spiritual practices such as Reiki, massage and meditation or, in the case of Earth Blue (2003), a collaboration with the Autostadt Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, have sold well over half a million copies. 　　Deuter continues to learn and master an ever-expanding array of instruments, including the drums, the shakuhachi flute, the koto, sitar, Tibetan singing bowls, santoor, bouzouki, piano and keyboard. He has recorded and released over 60 albums and claims to have sold more than he can count during the course of his career. 　　In 2016, Deuter's 2015 album Illumination of the Heart was voted among the top finalists for Album of the Year and Best Meditation/Relaxation Album by broadcasters and industry experts at Zone Music Reporter. In addition, Deuter received Zone Music Reporter's Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his 40 years and more than 60 recordings of musical contribution to the New Age genre.