Jack White (born Horst Nußbaum, 2 September 1940) is a German music composer and producer and former football player. White was born in Cologne, Germany. He started out as a songwriter/producer for German singers in the early 1970s and then developed an international style mainly as a producer. Among the songs he produced or co-produced for the international market were Laura Branigan's "Gloria" (1982), "Solitaire" (1983), "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You" (1983), "Self-Control" (1984) and "The Lucky One" (1984), as well as Jermaine Jackson's and Pia Zadora's "When the Rain Begins to Fall" (1984). In the late 80s, White worked with Engelbert Humperdinck and David Hasselhoff on several successful singles and albums.