Peter Strömquist

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Was born in Härnösand Sweden on May 17th 1978. Started to play the guitar in front of the mirror at the age of zero and dreamed of becoming a performer one day. My father (Stig) taught me Tom Dooley on a broken borrowed acoustic guitar when I was just a few years old. In a small blues club in the middle of the woods outside Härnösand at Pekkas Firehouse (the best juke joint I know), was where I first lay my hands on the blues. There top musicians from both Sweden and America preformed (one of them was the fabulous Rusty Zinn). After their show there was always a jam session were me and the other boys got a chance to play with the real cats. That was the best school I´ve ever been to. I got my first real gig at the age of 14, at a private party at "Metropol" back home. During that night I understood that this was really something I wanted to dedicate my life to. I thought this kind of employment had everything I needed, beautiful women, encouragement, whiskey, wine, gin and good friends. Not so many other jobs could offer that, especially not to an young teenager.. When I got older I decided to become a guitar teacher, and moved to Örebro to study for five years at the University of Music.