Hello everyone...
I didn't even realize we had this thread. Real observant, hmm? Anyway, greetings to my predecessors and howdy to the new guys.
My name's Hugo. At the moment I'm 52 and living on the northern fringes of metro Atlanta. I've got a small area of my home devoted to my music: a grand piano, a synthesizer, some mics and a laptop. It's enough to lay down a melody line and make a little noise.
As a kid I took a bit of piano lessons but since then it's mainly been just me teaching myself. My 'natural' style of playing is influenced by romantic/classical music. I try to compose in a number of genres, though, and I'm not bad with lyrics in general. My main difficulty with composing is laying down drums.
Given my age, it's probably not surprising that my main influences date back to my teens. Lennon/McCartney, Pete Townshend, Jack Bruce, Brian Wilson, Carole King, Paul Simon, and the rest of their contemporaries, along with Rodgers/Hammerstein, Beethoven, Debussy, and similar.
Hopefully some of those influences will show up in my music someday,
-Hugo