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![]() Robert Rovina was born on 18.2.1976 in Kosice, Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia). His musical story began at the age of thirteen when he bought his first guitar. From the beginning he desired to get „into the instrument“ motivated by listening to the beatles, jimi hendrix, etc... His first live performace was at a local jazz club with band called "Crosswind" playing some funky stuff. His passion for music and playing was growing every day and at the age of 19 he left the Economical university and became a hard practicing young guitarist. He studied classical guitar at conservatory. Then he formed band called "Electric Experience", which was playing a lot of blues music at the early days and during fast musical evolution they became funk-rock-fusion oriented band with their succesful local hit Jet Star, where he displayed his skills as a composer (with co-author F.Csizik) and temperament of 22 years old guitarist with strong sense for melody. After that he was participating in some commercial projects. During 2000 and 2001 he was member of "Fade Out" soul-blues-rock group. He´s co-founder of "J.F.R" band and with this project in 2002 he won The New Faces of Slovak Jazz competition and was awarded with two prizes-one for collective and second one for individual performance. His main influences are: Lee Ritenour, George Benson, Larry Carlton, Al Di Meola, Earth Wind and Fire and Prince. Over the years he has developed his own style and sound which is more than recognizible. In 2004 he was working as session guitarist in commercial project in Spain, and for last two years has been guitar teacher at The private elementary artistic school in Slovakia, now lives in Prague. In October 2006 Here I am CD has been released. |
Copyright 2006, Robert Rovina |