Lars Taylor

Lars Rainer Rüetschi (born March 24, 1977), professional known as Lars Taylor, is a Swiss fusion guitarist, composer, and producer. He has collaborated with many notable musicians and Grammy Award winners, including Donny McCaslin, Mark Soskin, Paul Brown, and Bob Glaub. Early life Lars Taylor was born in Switzerland, but spent a portion of his childhood in Brazil, where music such as Bossa Nova influenced him. He played the piano for seven years before discovering the guitar at the age of 14. At the age of 15, Lars bought a 4-track recorder, recording, arranging and producing his own compositions, having already his first professional studio job as a session player for a single recording when he was 17. Career From 1998 to 2002, Lars Taylor studied jazz guitar in the Basel Music Academy’s After being discovered in 2008 by the Angolan rapper Diamondog, he became part of his band playing in legendary places and festivals like Kunsthaus Tacheles, Fête de la Musique and old DDR place Kaffee Burger. In 2009 Taylor was also a session guitar player for the New German Wave band 1. Futurologischer Congress, contributed tracks for the album Küssmichdoch from German pop singer Christin Henke