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Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader.
Widely recognised for his guitar skills, Malmsteen achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and his pioneering of the neo-classical metal genre.
Born into a musical family in Stockholm, Malmsteen was the youngest child in the family. On September 18, 1970, at age seven, he saw a TV special on the death of Jimi Hendrix that made him obsessed with the guitar. To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Yngwie was born".
At the age of 10 he took his mother's maiden name Malmsteen as his surname, and "Americanized" his given name Yngve to "Yngwie".
He claims that Yngwie (pronounced "ING-VAY") means "young Viking chief" in Swedish. Technically it is a variation of Yngvi, who founded the House of Yngling, which is the oldest known Swedish dynasty.
Malmsteen was in his teens when he first encountered the music of the 19th century violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, whom he cites as his biggest classical influence. It has been rumoured that Yngwie believes himself to be the reincarnation of the temperamental, often criticized, and widely misunderstood violinist from Genoa.[citation needed] Through his emulation of Paganini concerto pieces on guitar, Malmsteen developed a prodigious technical fluency. Malmsteen also cites Jimi Hendrix, Brian May of Queen, Steve Hackett of Genesis, Uli Jon Roth, and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple as influences.
Malmsteen broke new ground and contributed to the evolution of modern rock guitar, particularly with his embracing of modal progressions and classically-influenced techniques not widely used in rock music. He is often credited, along with Randy Rhoads, with increasing the popularity of the neoclassical heavy metal genre and inspiring a new generation of electric guitarists including Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker, and Tony MacAlpine.
His appearance on the guitar scene in the early 80's was notable in that he brought and popularized techniques typified by Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads. These new techniques, often called "shredding", included fast lines using rapid alternate picking of every note (as opposed to extensive hammer-ons and pull-offs), which had previously only been featured by jazz fusion guitarists (such as Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin), as well as very rapid sweep picking of arpeggios (typically in Malmsteen's characteristic harmonic minor). (Yngwie Malmsteen - Wikipedia)
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Official Homepage
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbäck, June 30, 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, composer and bandleader.Widely recognised for his guitar skills, Malmsteen achieved widespread acclaim in the 1980s due to his technical proficiency and his pioneering of the neo-classical metal genre.
Born into a musical family in Stockholm, Malmsteen was the youngest child in the family. On September 18, 1970, at age seven, he saw a TV special on the death of Jimi Hendrix that made him obsessed with the guitar. To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Yngwie was born".
At the age of 10 he took his mother's maiden name Malmsteen as his surname, and "Americanized" his given name Yngve to "Yngwie".
He claims that Yngwie (pronounced "ING-VAY") means "young Viking chief" in Swedish. Technically it is a variation of Yngvi, who founded the House of Yngling, which is the oldest known Swedish dynasty.
Malmsteen was in his teens when he first encountered the music of the 19th century violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, whom he cites as his biggest classical influence. It has been rumoured that Yngwie believes himself to be the reincarnation of the temperamental, often criticized, and widely misunderstood violinist from Genoa.[citation needed] Through his emulation of Paganini concerto pieces on guitar, Malmsteen developed a prodigious technical fluency. Malmsteen also cites Jimi Hendrix, Brian May of Queen, Steve Hackett of Genesis, Uli Jon Roth, and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple as influences.
Malmsteen broke new ground and contributed to the evolution of modern rock guitar, particularly with his embracing of modal progressions and classically-influenced techniques not widely used in rock music. He is often credited, along with Randy Rhoads, with increasing the popularity of the neoclassical heavy metal genre and inspiring a new generation of electric guitarists including Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker, and Tony MacAlpine.
His appearance on the guitar scene in the early 80's was notable in that he brought and popularized techniques typified by Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads. These new techniques, often called "shredding", included fast lines using rapid alternate picking of every note (as opposed to extensive hammer-ons and pull-offs), which had previously only been featured by jazz fusion guitarists (such as Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin), as well as very rapid sweep picking of arpeggios (typically in Malmsteen's characteristic harmonic minor). (Yngwie Malmsteen - Wikipedia)
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