Jürgen Drews was born in 1945 as the son of Wehrmacht doctor Werner Drews and his wife Lieselotte in Nauen (Brandenburg province). He spent his youth in Schleswig. Here he had his first appearances as a musician on the stage of the Hotel Hohenzollern. After graduating from the cathedral school in Schleswig, he was enrolled as a medical student in Kiel for four semesters from autumn 1967, but broke off his studies in favor of music.