The Early Years
Yul Anderson started playing music when he was 8 years old. After his mother bought him his first guitar, his early influence was gospel and blues music from Mahalia Jackson to BB King, Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix. Delta blues flowed through the blood of his family. His father, artist name John Kasandra, who has been dubbed "the father of urban blues” had hits back in the Sixties with his records for Stax Records and later Capitol Records.
Growing up in Vallejo, California, Yul Anderson’s began his music career performing through-out the San Francisco Bay Area at age of 12, where he was the youngest guitarist to open for groups such as Earthquake, Eddie Money and Ray Charles. Later he taught himself how to play the piano at the age of 14.
During the 1980’s, Anderson went to Europe and started and took the initiative to establish a "Multi-Cultural Entertainment Circuit" inside Amnesty International while living in Florence, Italy. His idea has grown to host acts such as Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, U2, Sting and more. The first project was carried through by Yul Anderson- via a very close coordinating working relationship with the organization’s British Press Chief Richard Reoch – organized a long roll of successful benefit concerts in different European Countries including extensive tours of Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.
After organizing and performing solo piano concerts for the humanitarian organization through-out Europe, Anderson based himself in Denmark where he began his own production company. There he began playing piano on the streets promoting his many concerts performed in the most prestigious concert halls in Scandinavia, including Tivoli Concert Hall, The Circus Building, Ny Carlsberg Glytotecket Museum, to name a few. He also became the first artist to perform live piano concerts in European Planetariums, beginning with a row of successful concerts in Tycho Brahe in Denmark and in Cosmonova in Sweden.
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The Man and his Music
Yul Anderson is what many call a musicians, musician. This accomplished self-taught pianist, guitarist and master of improvisation truly enjoys performing solo piano concerts for audiences through-out Europe where he built his fan base.
"Europe is the birthplace of the piano and classical music and the Europeans truly appreciate new musical concepts based on classical ideas. When people come to my performances they should be prepared to take a musical journey, a flight through a personal universe of rhythm and blues blended with classical, rock, jazz and all kind of improvised sounds. My wish is to give the audience pure music created in the moment...an Ultimate Piano Experience" says Anderson,
Yul Anderson’s piano concerts combines many different genres into his unique improvisational style. He aims to create a personal musical universe built both on European classical ideas and his own deeply rooted blues heritage including African rhythmic concepts." Where does my inspiration come from? From the talents of improvisers like Keith Jarrett and Jimi Hendrix, the impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, and of course I’ve listened to Bach on occasion". Anderson says as he ponders his musical roots.
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