I started playing piano at age 10, and guitar 3 years later. My mom's old Beatles records, and hard rock groups such as AC/DC and Deep Purple were my inspiration at that time. I soon discovered progressive rock with bands like Genesis, Rush, Pink Floyd and Marillion as my favourites.
In highschool, one of the first bands I played in was Club Marquee, a band that among other things performed Pink Floyd's The Wall in its entirety as a musical theatre. Playing the ending solo in Comfortably Numb in front of a large audience is the ultimate ego trip!
Various hard rock and fusion projects led up to the birth of the band Silly Walks in the early 90's. Silly Walks was a really fun band to perform with as lots of unrehearsed stuff constantly happened at our gigs, such as audience participation in various forms. Our repertoire consisted of farily standard cover material in often unrecognisable arrangements. We also used to do a Zappa medley and a 15-minute version of Little Wing.
Circa 1996 - 2004 I was a member of the 10-piece soul/funk coverband Wind Up (which is short for Wind Up Working in a Gas Station - the old Frank Zappa tune). Wind Up played music by Stevie Wonder, Tower of Power, Brand New Heavies, James Brown and similar artists at corporate parties, weddings etc.
In early 2002, I joined the Celebration Gospel Choir for a brief period to record the CD "Colors" and play a couple of shows around Stockholm, including a gig at Jazzclub Fasching.
In 2004, I became the guitar player of the progressive rock group Phantomime.
In fall 2008 I played bass, keyboards and some guitar on the EP Immortal Deadbeats by Mountain Mirrors.
I also play piano on a song by Swedish fusion guitarist Magnus Olsson. It is scheduled to be released on a compilation album winter 2009-10.
Current bands are Soul Village and OddGrooves. Read more about them at the Music page.