Nils Tuxen

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Nils Tuxen (* 1949) is a Danish guitarist and music producer who is considered one of the European virtuosos on the pedal steel guitar .

Life

Tuxen first learned the recorder and piano, later guitar, electric bass and blues harp . Even as a schoolboy he earned money with recordings for the Scottish-Danish soul band The Clan . After completing school he was a member of Savage Rose from 1968 to 1971 , with whom he also toured several times in America. Then he focused on a solo career and released albums under his own name. Tuxen went to Hamburg, where he began producing songs and was also employed as a guest musician in the Truck Stop group at the end of the 1970s . In 1981 he founded the band Moti Special with Michael Cretu (keyboards), Manfred “Thissy” Thiers (bass, vocals) and Reinhard “Dicky” Tarrach (drums) . The breakthrough came with the album Motivation (1985); the songs "Cold Days, Hot Nights" and "Don't Be so Shy" reached positions 3 and 8 in the German charts. In 1989, Polydor released the LP Dancing for Victory with a different line-up . He also played in the reunion of Randy Pie .

Tuxen is on the road as a studio and session musician , among others with Konstantin Wecker , for example with anger and tenderness (live) . From 2001 to 2007 he played pedal steel , guitar and dobro with the Schürzenjäger . As a studio musician, he is involved in numerous productions, for example by Peter Cornelius , Samantha Fox , Maggie Reilly , Roger Whittaker , Tony Sheridan , Reinhard Mey , Texas Lightning , DJ Bobo and Cisco Berndt .

Discographic notes

  • Nils Tuxen (1975)
  • The United Steels of Europe (together with Jean Yves Lozac'h and Koos Biel, 1978)
  • Divine Lines (with Gerry Hogan, Koos Biel and André Sommer, 1987)
  • American Dreams on Steel Guitar (1992)

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personal data
SURNAME Tuxen, Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish guitarist and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949