Ragnar ZSolberg - Biography

Biography

Ragnar ZSolberg was born on 2 December 1986 in Reykjavik, Iceland. When he was 2 years old Ragnar built his first drum kit out of pots and pans from his mothers kitchen. At the age of four he got his first guitar from his grandmother and started playing along to the tunes of Metallica's "Black Album" but smashed his guitar in the heat of the moment soon after as he had seen Jimi Hendrix doing so on TV. At the age of six Ragnar began taking guitar lessons at the Iceland Guitar School but needed new teachers soon because he learned in such acceleration. Ragnar was already writing his own songs at six and his first roadie was his mother as Ragnar insisted on bringing his guitar and drum pads to kindergarten, hoping to start a band with the other guys. His dad, a famous drummer in Iceland, fueled Ragnar's and his brother's enthusiasm by presenting them their first real drum-kit. While his brother turned out to be very skillful on drums and still plays to this day, Ragnar soon found out that playing the guitar was more his thing, but he has still played drums on his two latest albums. Another important moment in Ragnars life: He saved an old "Hustler" magazine from the dumpster which he was very fascinated by but later traded it for the Kiss-movie (Kiss meets the phantom of the park. He watched it almost every day and started dreaming of becoming a rock star one day himself.