My Story
I was born in Västerås a city close to the Capitol of Sweden, Stockholm. And I lived there for 25 years. I had a brother and a sister and we lived with our parents in a house in the center of the city. Life was actually quite good. Can’t say that I would like to complain about my upbringing in any way actually, although I, just like so many others, felt like I was born into a family of complete strangers.
I made some really good friends after elementary school. Elementary school was a freight. I never managed to fit in, i read books about mythology instead of doing what other kids did. And I did that until the day when I got my first guitar. then suddenly everything changed. It seems I had a talent so I learned to play rather fast at the age of 10. And at the age of 12 I wrote my first song.
So there was a bunch of guys who thought that I would be a contribution to a band. We started to play together and had a lot of gigs where we played covers. As I felt that I wanted to play my own material that band fell apart and I soon ended up with other people.
So at the age of 14 I was out playing at different places with different people, these people were a lot older than me but they appreciated the songs I wrote. But playing in different bands and continuing to write my own material mixing it with covers was not what I wanted.
So I soon ended up in a band where all the other band members were professionals. I think that was the time when I taught the most about playing in a band. These guys were even older then the members of the previous bands. But we all really enjoyed each others company. Sorry to say, lacking any greater success, which was what these guys had been hoping for. The band split up and soon I was playing with people more of my age. But now we started to get attention for what we did. And the songs from this period is among the most different from other bands. Even though I don’t really listen to them today, we had a lot of fun writing and playing them.
But every time that we were getting somewhere, the members of the band started to fight and nothing got out of it. So I got tired of the people and the city and moved to Gothenburg with the hope that everything would be different. And still I am just a man playing his guitar, piano and the necessary instruments. Writing my music, some have ment a profit for me. But only on the smaller scale.
Living together with my two daughters after their mothers death. I work with people after studying in university to get a degree in behavior science. My interest in mythology evolved to philosophy, psychology and sociology. I still write my music and today I do most of the work on the songs by myself. Doesnt mean it gets better, only means that things gets done when I want to.
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