Tamás Hrabovszky

 



   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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