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Artist
Matti Norlin
12+ albums
bluesfolkbluesrockacoustic bluesSverige
about
Matti Norlin, born 21 dec 1972 in Hoting, Sweden, grew up listening to Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Rickard and other rythm and blues artists. By the age of ten he picked up his first guitar and it didn´t take long until he sang and played Heavy Metal with some other kids from the same village. As teenagers they recorded two E.P.s, the first was done in 1986. 1991 Matti bought an LP with Robert Johnson and a whole new world opened up. The focus of the exercises was changed from distorted Heavy Metal riffs to acoustic finger-picking, and since then, Matti has almost exclusively devoted himself to music which was recorded for over eighty years ago in the southern United States. After finishing school Matti had a short career as a music teacher, and at the same time he was out playing well known songs at pubs, restaurants and private parties. With over 800 songs on his repertoire he became known as a "livin jukebox". But after a couple of years he got bored with commercial music and moved to the capital of Sweden-Stockholm. 1995, as he moved, Matti produced his first blues CD "Pre War Blues" and at the same time he appeared in a Swedish TV-show,that combination made it possible for him to start working as a professional musician in Stockholm and the rest of Europe, in the time of writing, he has done about 1500 gigs. 1996 CD "Ett svin i en kö (A pig in a queue) 'by Matti and his friend Fredrik Haake, quotes from a newspaper: "Frank Zappa in swedish". 1997 "Skifid Things" CD wi
