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Erik Mongrain
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Erik Mongrain is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and jazz musician who began his professional work period in 2001. Born in Montreal on April 12, 1980, he is a male citizen of Canada. His musical style is characterized by acoustic guitar, fingerstyle, and instrumental jazz, with influences from Michael Hedges. He also works as a YouTuber and maintains an official website.
Mongrain’s discography includes five recorded works. His music is frequently tagged as ambient and acoustic, reflecting his focus on instrumental performance. He has accumulated 74,350 listeners and 878,303 plays on Last.fm, while his social media presence includes 28,500 followers.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1980
Discography
- Fates2007
- Equilibrium2008
- Forward2012
- Tempo
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 74,350
- Total plays
- 878,303
Tags
Erik Mongrain (born April 12, 1980, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian composer and guitarist. He uses a unique acoustic style with a wide array of different techniques, approaches and textures reminiscent of Michael Hedges. Mongrain became very interested in guitar at the age of fourteen. The electric guitar was what Mongrain first worked with as he was teaching himself, and eventually picked up an interest in classical and acoustic guitar. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Erik+Mong
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 25,341x
- GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free
· 2005 · cited 18,117x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies
· 2007 · cited 17,548x
- The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies
· 2008 · cited 15,248x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1980-04-12 ) April 12, 1980 (age 46) , Montreal , Quebec , Canada
- Genres
- Acoustic music
- Occupations
- Guitarist , composer
- Instrument
- Acoustic guitar
- Years active
- 2001–present
- Labels
- Prophase Music and Music Video Distributors
- Website
- erikmongrain .com
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Encyclopedic overview
Lap-Tapping technique by Erik Mongrain
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