Early Life
Takkenberg was born to Frits Takkenberg and Renate Takkenberg-Krohn on August 23, 1967 in Bogotá, Colombia. His mother is a photographer and his father was on the board of directors of Holland Chemical International (HCI Chemicals B.V.). In Bogotá he learned to play the Tiple (18 string small guitar) and the piano at the age of nine. The family moved to Spain in 1977 where his interests in music were encouraged further at Runnymede College in Madrid. After the divorce of his parents, he leaves for boarding school in England in 1982.
At Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, he fell on fertile ground for rock bands and met kindred minds with a taste for life. Rugby union and the bands Early Birds, Flat Hat, Crosstalk, Red Shift, Dirty Boots and Earth Hum, from 1985 to 1995, formed his ideas on friendship and loyalty. His school trip to Nepal became an experience that would transform his view on the world and fire his interest in eastern philosophy, culture and music. He attached great importance to the conciliatory and spiritually enriching value of music and its ability to make us forget frontiers and "dance together as equals".
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