MY MUSICAL BACKGROUND

[♔Chello]

MY MUSICAL BACKGROUND


I grew up in a family collective with my father's parents and his siblings as well as their children.

My father's father was an accordion player and guitarist.

My mother was a choir singer when I was growing up.

My father and his brothers were semi-professional musicians in the 50s and 60s, and had their own trio - Almes Trio, and each took turns playing accordion, bass and guitar.
They had various arrangements for 11 years.

My brother Johs Alme started playing accordion when he was 17-18, and bass soon after, which became his main instrument.
He started a local rock club, where anyone interested had a place to practice.
He also started his own group; The End.
He played with many famous local groups his whole life, and won a competition in the USA which led to a CD being released.

I've played piano a little since I was a kid; every summer we would visit my mother's sister who had a piano - both she and her children played.
I started playing accordion when I was 15, and am 100% self-taught.
I played for dances for many years from the age of 17-18, and have occasionally played with many of the most famous musicians in Norway.

In the 80s I was a bass vocalist for a period in a choir - we had many performances in churches, where I also had the opportunity to play the church organ a few times.
In the 90s I periodically practiced with a group from Chile when they were in Norway for concerts.
In 1998 I started playing keyboards, but have only had a few performances after this.

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Neither of my parents were musical, but music was around everywhere be it from the radio, my fathers reel to reel tape player or mothers record player. It wasn’t until some years later when we went to see some of our old neighbours in Wales their oldest son had an upright piano. As time passed I had an aunt who had a piano and cousin who had a Bontempi Organ. I did over time get keyboards, I do remember in secondary school one of the music teachers brought in a Dx7 and M1. I started to get more interested. But for vast majority apart from having 12 months of lessons everything else I am pretty much self taught