Yngwie Malmsteen
- January 5, 2024
- Guitarist
Quick Facts
Yngwie Malmsteen Biography
| Name | Yngwie Malmsteen |
| Birthday | Jun 30 |
| Birth Year | 1963 |
| Place Of Birth | Stockholm |
| Birth Country | Sweden |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Spouse | April Malmsteen , Amber Dawn Landin , Erika Norberg |
Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on June 30, 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden. Singer, songwriter and bandleader of the 1980s. He was also a guitarist who used neo-classical style as he performed heavy metal.
Jimi Hendrix inspired Malmsteen’s performance style. inspired Malmsteen’s performance style.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen (/ˈ ɪ ŋ v eɪ ˈ m ɑː l m s t iː n / ; born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck; 30 June 1963) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, composer, and bandleader. Malmsteen first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical metal playing style in heavy metal, and has released 20 studio albums in a career spanning almost 40 years. In 2009, Time magazine rated Malmsteen as number 7 among the 10 greatest electric guitar players of all time.
Malmsteen has stated that he prefers the Stratocaster (from the period of 1968–1972); he claims that the bigger headstock on these generates more sustain. Malmsteen customizes his guitars by fitting a brass nut, removing the middle string tree, scalloping the fretboard, converting the neck from 3 to 4 bolt configuration (when necessary), installing Wilkinson springs on the tremolo, and refretting the neck with Dunlop 6000 fret wire. He previously disconnected the tone controls on his guitars but since Fender initiated the use of the “no load” potentiometer no longer does this. Malmsteen now uses his signature Seymour Duncan YJM Fury pickups. Before using the YJM’s, he used DiMarzio pickups – most notably the HS3 model and the YJM (now known as HS4) model. Malmsteen would use an HS3 in the bridge and two YJMs in the middle and neck positions. The YJM/HS4 is simply a staggered magnet version of the HS3. In some early recordings, Malmsteen instead used the HS3 model in the neck and bridge positions and a disconnected stock Fender single-coil pickup in the middle. In even earlier recordings, Malmsteen was using DiMarzio FS-1 pickups.
He was musically-oriented throughout his family, which led to him creating his first musical composition at the age 10 Antonio was named after him and April.
Yngwie Malmsteen Net Worth
| Net Worth | $10 Million |
| Source Of Income | Guitarist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the richest Guitarist from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yngwie Malmsteen 's net worth $10 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
His inspiration came from Queen’s He took his inspiration from Queen’s Brian May, among other rock guitarists. His demo was noticed by Shrapnel Records when Malmsteen was eighteen years old. and other rock guitarists. When Malmsteen turned eighteen, Shrapnel Records noticed his demo.
He didn’t slow down even after a car accident left him in a serious condition.
Even though his signature amplifier is based on the 100 watt “1959” model, Malmsteen is most noted for preferring 50 watt “1987” model metal-faced Marshall amplifiers manufactured between 1972 and 1973. His speaker cabinets are always loaded with Celestion G12T-75 speakers. Another big part of his sound is his overdrive pedal, which he uses to push the front-end of the Marshalls. Most recently he is using a Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Overdrive, which is largely based on a vintage DOD Overdrive/Preamp 250 pedal which he used for many years. DOD made a (now discontinued) signature version of the DOD-250 for Malmsteen called the YJM-308 (named after a combination of his initials and the model number of one of his favorite Ferrari’s). He has been known to use his overdrive pedals in the loop of a Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor. For clean tones he employs the use of a Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble, and uses a Korg DL8000R in his rack for delays. He often has a Dunlop JH-F1 Hendrix Fuzz Face on the stage-floor, but doesn’t use it. Malmsteen claims that he likes seeing the Fuzz Face because it “looks like a land-mine”.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 6 ft 3 in |
Yngwie Malmsteen height 6 ft 3 in Yngwie weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Who is Yngwie Malmsteen Dating?
According to our records, Yngwie Malmsteen married to April Malmsteen , Amber Dawn Landin , Erika Norberg. As of December 1, 2023, Yngwie Malmsteen’s is not dating anyone.
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In early 1982 (when Malmsteen was 18), Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records, who had heard a demo tape of Malmsteen’s playing from the 1978 titled Demo Powerhouse, brought Malmsteen to the United States. He played briefly with the band Steeler on part of its 1983 self-titled album. He then appeared with Graham Bonnet in the band Alcatrazz, playing on its 1983 debut No Parole from Rock ‘n’ Roll and the 1984 live album Live Sentence. In 1984, Malmsteen released his first solo album Rising Force, which featured Barrie Barlow of Jethro Tull on drums and keyboard player Jens Johansson. His album was meant to be an instrumental side-project of Alcatrazz, but it ended up featuring vocals by Jeff Scott Soto and Malmsteen left Alcatrazz soon after the release of Rising Force.
Facts & Trivia
Yngwie Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Yngwie Malmsteen celebrates birthday on June 30 of every year.
Rising Force won the Guitar Player Magazine’s award for Best Rock Album and was nominated for a Grammy for ‘Best Rock Instrumental’, reaching no. 60 on the Billboard album chart. Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force (as his band was thereafter known) next released Marching Out (1985). The band recruited Jens Johansson’s brother Anders to play drums and bassist Marcel Jacob to record and tour with the band. Jacob left in the middle of a tour and was replaced by Wally Voss. Malmsteen’s third album, Trilogy, featuring the vocals of Mark Boals (and Malmsteen on both guitar and bass), was released in 1986. In 1987, former Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner and bassist Bob Daisley joined the band. That year, Malmsteen was in a serious car accident, smashing his V12 Jaguar E-Type into a tree, which put him in a coma for a week. Nerve damage to his right hand was reported. During this time, Malmsteen’s mother died from cancer. In April 1988, he released his fourth album Odyssey. Odyssey was his most successful album, in part due to the success of its first single “Heaven Tonight”. Shows in the Soviet Union during the Odyssey tour were recorded and released in 1989 as a fifth album Trial by Fire: Live in Leningrad. The classic Rising Force lineup with Malmsteen and the Johansson brothers was dissolved in 1989 when Jens Johansson joined Dio and Anders joined Blue Murder.
Is Yngwie Malmsteen self taught?
They say that you should only take advice from people that you wouldn’t mind ending up in the same position as; I suppose that’s all the practice motivation for this Monday that I need!
What is Yngwie Malmsteen's real name?
Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck
Why did Yngwie change his name?
When his parents got divorced, his sister Ann Louise (Lolo) kept their father’s name, and Yngwie and his brother Bjorn took their mother’s maiden name of Malmsteen. He also dropped Lars and shortened the whole thing to Yngwie Johann Malmsteen, changing to a somewhat more Anglicized spelling.
Can Malmsteen read music?
yep basically they all do. I know for a fact Vai and Petrucci do, because you cant graduate Berklee without being able to read music, and malmsteen can because he transcribed classical tunes into sheet music.