Since I was born I refused to assert myself musically. Therefore I was never forced to play the recorder or the piano. The big change occured when I heard the song "Out Of The Silent Planet" by Iron Maiden for the first time. I borrowed the album at once, let it spin around and around and started to listen consciously to music. In those days I favoured the classics (Maiden, Priest...) and 80s Hair-Rock (I got more than one laugh with that  ). Suddenly I had the urge to play the guitar myself so my father taught me "Smoke On The Water" (the "One String" version). I found a guitar school where I am still learning today, tried to play a little bass at a friend's place and bought a cheap keyboard because HIM blew my mind at that time. Then Luki himself introduced me to Nightwish and Sonata Arctica where I found my musical paradise. So I wanted to try something in the same vain myself. It was the time of Illuminata's beginning and I watched the whole project with admiring respect and a little bit of jealousy. When they needed a bass player I thought I might as well take my chance (of course I knew nothing about playing the bass but: it's got strings and looks like a guitar! ... can't be THAT difficult). So I basically started out on bass by playing Jeanne Antoinette and recorded the song with hardly two months of experience, which was my first time in the studios too. Somehow I managed to keep the band's pace (and I dare say that I improved a little bit ) and so I am still with Illuminata. And I am very glad about that!
Music and everything within, around and beyond; activities with friends, cartoons and comedy, videogames, comics, books
I'm totally addicted to sweets and all kinds of nuts and chips, multiplayer-sessions that may last for a weekend without any sleep, a bit of alcohol... sometimes 
Tuomas Holopainen, Geddy Lee, Steve Harris, Hans Zimmer, Marcus Miller, Victor Wooten... but overall I think most musicians derserve respect for what they do
Nightwish, Iron Maiden, Rush, Sonata Arctica, Eluveitie, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Dark Tranquility...I could go on...
of course the one we are working at ... but I am not allowed to tell the title here
Meet Joe Black, Duck Soup, Finding Neverland, Chocolat, The Fabulous Destiny Of Amélie Poulain, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Pulse (Pink Floyd Live), Lord Of The Rings, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Braveheart, Monty Python's Flying Circus/Blackadder/Not The 9 O'Clock News (not exactly movies but these shows defined humour for me )
Every single books by Walter Moers (especially "The City Of Dreaming Books") and Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchet: "The Nome Trilogy", Stephen King: "Shining", Tad Williams: "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn", Tolkien: "The Lord Of The Rings", "The Hobbit", Gaston Leroux: "The Phantom Of The Opera", and of course all the English classics
water, fruit-juice, rum with coke, beer with coke, Radler, wine
creative, relaxed, tolerant
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