Music has been an extremely important part of my life for as long as I can remember.
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Music in my childhood home was mainly classical, but thanks to my mother’s vinyl collection, I also got acquainted with for instance The Beatles. My dad had played rhythm guitar in a beat band in his youth, so for instance the Finnish classic beat interpretation of folk song Emma by The Sounds was also something I heard – but only from a record. My father’s guitar escapades have remained left in his teenage years, but he did go on to become a rather adequate concert pianist later on.
I frequented piano lessons since I was 6 years old, receiving tuition from the legendar Opera Diva and brilliant music pedagog Mariaheidi Rautavaara, of who’s children especially Markojuhani Rautavaara has become a household name within the pop and rock music industry in Finland. Marko’s father was obviously classical composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. When I was 12 years old I experienced my Life’s Great Awakening in the form of Jimi Hendrix’ version of Billy Robert’s song Hey Joe. From that moment on I realized, that my most important task in life was to become the planet’s greatest guitar hero. Through the years my demands concerning my guitar playing have somewhat been softened, however, I did come to be quite an OK singer as well along the road.
I began playing gigs at age 14 and I am very much still in the same path. Musicianship has sort of been the only “honest” job I’ve held, since it has identified me to the extent that I really can’t see myself as anything else to start with, than as a musician, and in the end that is where I end.
Although active touring life has been more on hold during later years, music and being a musician are always the most important lifelines to which I always return. No matter what kind of careers I would be making elsewhere. It’s always been clear to me, that no matter how brilliant curriculums I might bild in other fields professionally, there is but one profession from which I shall never fully retire: Musician.
I will be adding links and hints to this page for you to indulge deeper within my music. Maybe you’ll find something completely new and surprising, that will speak to you? Welcome to My Music!
-Kristian