Biography
Since I was a kid I felt a pronounced love of guitars; the sound of them, the look the of them, the everything of them. At the age of eleven I finally convinced my parents to get me one ... a nylon stringed Levin scool model, not unlike the one on the photo below.

Learned to play my first notes at the instrumental classes available for all kids in Sweden at the time. Thus "finger picking", or what today is called "fingerstyle guitar" is the way I started, (not until many years later I tried to learn how to use the flatpick, (which never succeded very well).

Inspiration
Early sources of inspiration were songwriters born out of the sixties, who also were skilled guitar players, such as Paul Simon and Stephen Stills. Also inspired by classical masters such as Andres Segovia and John Williams.

After senior high I attended a higher education in classical guitar. Worked as a guitar teacher for a couple of years and as a backing guitarist for local singers in Sweden.

Besides playing backup guitar, I participated in different bands playing bluegreass and old-timey music on pubs and restaurants.

Playing on the street was often lots of fun.

Thirty years ago, downtown Stockholm. Me (left) playing the old National Dobro (a gem which musicians today would never dream of taking out on the street).

and then...
... in the mid-seventies I quit music in favour of education and career in the field of psychology and pedagogy. During the eighties I worked as a cognitive psychologist with research and development of user-friendly information systems. During the nineties I was involved in various writing projects on questions concerning "working life education" and "business ethics".

But it was difficult to become content with a life without music, and from the turn of the new millenium I started to work my way back to music again.

Today...
... I am playing mostly at home. Internet is becoming my main arena. A little sad maybe, but music life has changed since the seventies. Studio-quality recording gear has become resonably inexpensive, and there are public music sites for uploading home-made recordings, and there are new companies with new stategies for production and distribution of music.

Thus; by 2006, I was able to condense experiences from more than fourty years of guitar playing into a record release.

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