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Roland Grapow, born August 30th, 1959 in Hamburg, Germany is a professional guitarist. Roland is most well known for his time in the power metal band Helloween, who he played with for for 12 years after replacing founding member Kai Hansen. Roland played on several Hellowen albums - from Pink Bubbles Go Ape to The Dark Ride. During his time with Helloween Roland also formed a solo project. The first release, The Four Seasons of Life, featured members of Helloween playing backup, with Roland trying his hand at singing in addition to guitar playing. On the second album, Kaleidoscope, current...

When it comes to creative genius, Roland Kayn, born in Reutlingen (Germany) in 1933, might be the most unjustly neglected figure in contemporary music. From 1952 to 1955 he studied organ and composition at Stuttgart's Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik, as well as scientific theory at the Technische Hochschule, undertaking further composition and analysis studies in Berlin with Boris Blacher and Josef Rufer from 1956 to 1958. In that year he won the Best Foreign Work prize at the Kairazuwa Festival in Tokyo, and further awards followed in Italy in 1962 and 1964 for his orchestral compositions Vectors I and Schwingungen....

Roland Sandor, a fresh newcomer to the electronic dance music scene, was born in Romania, but spent his early childhood in Austria. At the age of 11, he moved to Hungary where he is living now. “After all these changes in my life, I have such a different definition of home. I found home in those people who I love and who are always around me. That means really home for me. No matter where you’re living right now or where you were born…” The story began in Austria. As a kid, he was watching artists on music channels who...