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

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. Since 2020, Quist has blossomed as an artist & producer - particularly as a pioneering lofi artist, seeing his music featured on major playlists like lofi beats, lush lofi, lofi café, lofi sleep,

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, Atmospheric Calm & Bedtime Beats on

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- as well as on

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and a bunch of TV shows around the world. Quist is also known as the lead guitarist with British singer and

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frontman

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

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and

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. Other recording credits include British

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winners

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and

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. Quist has also performed with multi-million selling

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musician

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, bass player T.M. Stevens,

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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 170 million views and aside from featuring Quist, it also showcases other notable musicians, including

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lead guitarist

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and

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session bass player

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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

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. 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

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Discography

Albums

Guest appearances

References

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