Jacob Quistgaard (known as Quist) is a Danish guitarist and producer based in

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. Quist is best known as the lead guitarist with British singer and

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. He has been touring with Ferry since early 2014 and featured on his 2014 album Avonmore, with Nile Rodgers,

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, Johnny Marr,

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and Marcus Miller. Other recording credits include British

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winners Little Mix, Stooshe and Valerie June. Quist has also performed with multi-million selling

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and Dutch singer Boris Titulaer. Quist is also known for his

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channel (Quist), which mainly features his original music, improvisations, tour vlogs and one of the largest and most popular collections of original "jam tracks" and

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s on the internet. The channel has over 140 million views and aside from featuring Quist, it also showcases other notable musicians, including

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and Pink Floyd session bass player Guy Pratt.

Biography

Quist was born in

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. He started playing guitar at age 6. As a young child, he studied and toured internationally with the Danish Royal Ballet. He moved to

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as a teenager to study guitar at the Guitar Institute of Technology where he earned the title ''"Guitarist of the Year"''. He was then awarded a scholarship to study Jazz Performance at London's Royal Academy of Music. He had his professional recording debut with Danish act Franka & The Iris Band, which earned the artist a Danish Music Award. In 2011 he published his first book with

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, ''Rock Guitar'', which was a worldwide, multi-language release. Quist also collaborated with fellow BIMM faculty member and session guitarist Les Davidson on a second published book "The Guitarist's Ultimate Chart Reading Book". Quist is also a regular contributor to UK magazine ''Guitar Techniques''. 'She #Zen' the first single from Quist's instrumental album 'Trigger', had an exclusive premiere on Guitar World.

Discography

Albums

Guest appearances

References

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