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Artist
Yul Anderson
12+ albums
improvisationpianoclassicjazzalternative jazz
about
Yul Anderson started playing music when he was 8 years old. After his mother bought him his first guitar, his early influence was gospel and blues music from Mahalia Jackson to BB King, Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix. Delta blues flowed through the blood of his family. His father, artist name John Kasandra, who has been dubbed "the father of urban blues” had hits back in the Sixties with his records for Stax Records and later Capitol Records. Growing up in Vallejo, California, Yul Anderson’s began his music career performing through-out the San Francisco Bay Area at age of 12, where he was the youngest guitarist to open for groups such as Earthquake, Eddie Money and Ray Charles. Later he taught himself how to play the piano at the age of 14. During the 1980’s, Anderson went to Europe and started and took the initiative to establish a "Multi-Cultural Entertainment Circuit" inside Amnesty International while living in Florence, Italy. His idea has grown to host acts such as Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, U2, Sting and more. The first project was carried through by Yul Anderson- via a very close coordinating working relationship with the organization’s British Press Chief Richard Reoch – organized a long roll of successful benefit concerts in different European Countries including extensive tours of Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. After organizing and performing solo piano concerts for the humanitarian organization through-out Europe, Anderson based himself
