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L He started playing with local cover bands, but soon he began working on original material. One of the most important acts he played with was power-heavy band Deceptor, where his brother, Kosta played bass. They worked on some great songs and soon took the project in concert.
With a great professional background, working as a session musician, playing with numerous bands touring just about everywhere, he literally swept the road playing live and had the opportunity to be the opening act of international artists like Nazareth, HTP (Glenn Hughes - Joe Lynn Turner Project), Eric Sardinas and UFO. He’s attained maximum live experience in excess of 1000 performances, including TV shows on local and satellite channels.
He was nominated among 12 guitarists all over the world for a full year scholarship to attend the Atlanta Institute of Music which was in cooperation with Jason Becker.
He also won a $5000 scholarship from Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
2006 was the right year for Laki to form the Killer Sixgun project in an effort to show his work. A first compilation of eight songs was made and the CD received great reviews and many enthusiastic comments from all around the world.
For the last ten years he’s been working as a guitar teacher in various music schools of Thessaloniki and he has successfully made guitar instruction clinics around Greece. In recent guitar seminars he presented his new teaching approach called ‘’Electric Guitar; Advanced Techniques and Theory’’.
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