Biography
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Born in Montevideo, Uruguay to Dutch parents and raised in Brazil, Christiaan Oyens started his musical career as a drummer. When he turned 19, Christiaan moved to Los Angeles, California where he pursued his drumming studies. One day while strolling through Santa Monica he walked into McCabe's Guitar Shop and heard a show by multi-instrumentalist David Lindley. Christiaan instantly fell in love with the acoustic (Weissenborn) Hawaiian lap steel guitar Lindley was playing.
Many years later, back in Brazil where he was producing albums and touring as a drummer he decided to invest in these guitars. After playing and recording his lap steel guitars with artists like Milton Nascimento, Zelia Duncan and Lulu Santos, Christiaan decided to release his first solo album - Adeus Paraiso - consisting of guitar duets with him playing both the regular and the Weissenborn guitars. The result is an innovative album with some brilliant and truly original slide guitar playing. From the Hawaiian flavoured "Adeus Paraiso", the elegant bluesy textures of "Negrume", the exotic Brazilian rhythms of "Novas Possibilidades Lindas" to the quasi-classical "Ninutchka"; the diverse atmospheres of these compositions defy categorization. The album also features a guest appearance from Milton Nascimento.
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