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I was born on 2 February 1969 in Szeged. Currently I am a driver at MÁV
(Hungarian Railway Company). My first experience with blues was
Peter Nemes Nagy's blues programs on the radio. I started playing
the harmonica in January 1993 after hearing Tamas Szabo who played
with Bistro Blues Band at the Mojo Club Szeged and the next day
at JATE Club in Szeged with Palermo Boogie Gang. His musicality on
the mouth organ fascinated me. I asked him to show me the basics of
playing the instrument, which he kindly agreed to. He lives in
Budapest, but as a railway personnel it wasn't a problem for me to
travel back and forth and take lessons from him. I got many of my
harmonica recordings from him.
In May of 1993 on a beer festival I talked to Peter Török
guitarist, who is by the way a relative of mine, and we realized
that both of us are close to blues music, so came the idea to form a
band. This was the birth of my band the Blues
Bell, where besides a drummer and a guitarist I play the
harmonica and I sing as well.
We have already had a few performances when Vajk called and very
simply invited me to play with the Rambling Blues. As it turned out,
it was my "predecessor", Istvan Harmati who recommended me
for his post. I gladly accepted, why not? The challenge was
important, because very different techniques, sounds and performance
styles are part of this music. Different from the ones used in
"electric" blues.
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