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Artist
Kens Dojo
12+ albums
hard rockAORrocknorwegianmelodic rock
about
KENS DOJO - a solo project from guitar player, songwriter and producer Ken Ingwersen. Ken started playing classical guitar at the age of 10, but was soon spelled by the electric guitar and rock music, listening to acts like KISS, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple and tons of other 70's and 80's rock bands. Spending his early teens playing in a few local bands in Oslo, Norway, the first real band making any fuzz was called LIMELIGHT. Releasing a single on Polydor, and doing a tour with TNT, Ken got hungry for doing more music. He was soon hired as a guitar player for Evenrude, a norwegian singer signed by the infamous Clive Davis at Arista Records in the US. Enjoying some touring with this great band, the big success for Evenrude never happened outside of Norway. Ken moved on to form a band called RAGS, and released two albums in '93 and '95. The albums were well received by the global press and was released throughout Europe and Japan. When RAGS broke up in the mid 90's, Ken formed a band called SPEED and released an album in '97 called "One". The album was released world wide through various indie labels. Writing the songs, engineering, producing, mixing, playing guitars, bass and keyboards on the album…..a reporter once said in a review: "I wouldn't be surprised if he's driving the tour bus too!" Doing "everything" can be fun and creative, but also exhausting. This is one of the reasons why Ken joined STREET LEGAL late 90's. For the first time in many years, Ken could
