Elewout de Raad was born on september 16th 1971 in Groningen, Holland. At the age of 6 years old he started taking classical guitar lessons. At the age of 8 years old he developed an interest for bluegrass music and got his first western guitar which he still uses today.
At the age of 11 he started taking lessons from Teije Wijnterp, a rock and flamenco guitar player, who inspired him to figure out music from records by ear.
The first record he figured out was “Texas flood” from Stevie Ray Vaughan, other records by different blues and rock players followed.
At this time he started playing in different bands and picked up jazz rock influences from a drummer he played with for a few years. In 1993 he went to the conservatory and studied jazz music. Also in this period he started playing in different gospel bands and later on this developed into playing with different settings on christian festivals and conferences in and outside of Holland. In the time that he played top-100 music in different bands he hooked up with Hendrik Mulder, a drummer with a lot of the same musical influences with whom he started the “Elewout de Raad project”. In 2003 they recorded their first album “The Cross”, an instrumental jazz-rock CD.
Nowadays he is working as a session player, mostly for gospel projects, one of them is a monthly returning show with a huge band in the “RAI” in Amsterdam which will take place during 2005.
At the age of 11 he started taking lessons from Teije Wijnterp, a rock and flamenco guitar player, who inspired him to figure out music from records by ear.
The first record he figured out was “Texas flood” from Stevie Ray Vaughan, other records by different blues and rock players followed.
At this time he started playing in different bands and picked up jazz rock influences from a drummer he played with for a few years. In 1993 he went to the conservatory and studied jazz music. Also in this period he started playing in different gospel bands and later on this developed into playing with different settings on christian festivals and conferences in and outside of Holland. In the time that he played top-100 music in different bands he hooked up with Hendrik Mulder, a drummer with a lot of the same musical influences with whom he started the “Elewout de Raad project”. In 2003 they recorded their first album “The Cross”, an instrumental jazz-rock CD.
Nowadays he is working as a session player, mostly for gospel projects, one of them is a monthly returning show with a huge band in the “RAI” in Amsterdam which will take place during 2005.
