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Boy Omega
biography / portrait
 
My name is Martin Henrik Gustafsson and I'm from Sweden. I was born on the 9th of March in 1978 at Eksjö BB. Named after Martin Shivers, a football-player for Tottenham Hotspur. Born with a banana-foot and one leg shorter than the other, I had to go through a lot of operations in my early years. Therefore I ended up spending a lot of time in hospitals. I still can't stand them.


Growing up my father Nyll used to take me and my brother Daniel to football-practice in the small community Solberga in Småland. In the car he used to play us tapes with Rod Stewart, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Presley among others. Everytime I listen to those records I can still sense the smell of fresh grass and sunshine.


The first record I ever bought was "Creatures of the night" by Kiss. Later on I got my first pair of drumsticks from a neighbour and started to play in my room on a chair with a weaved seat in red. He (the neighbour) also introduced me to bands like WASP, Twisted Sister and Mötley Crue. While I sat there playing on my chair, I made up records in my head, came up with bandnames and made drawings of what the bandmembers might look like. For some reason they often wore big beards.


At age 12 I broke my right-leg during football-practice and that summer in plaster I picked up my brothers' guitar and got hooked. I decided to give up my football-career and instead focus on music.


Started writing songs using the moniker Boy Omega in the year of 2001.


I'm a night owl and I love the sound of rain smattering against my windows. My favorite time of year is autumn, or fall. When it's not too hot and not too cold. I find a lot of interest in science and the unknown. Ghosts, seamonsters and stuff like that. I also like animals, movies, books, bathtubs, balconies, the castle woods, the red rock, my bicycle, my computer, photo albums, the ocean, drawing, dada, rollercoasters, power ballads, trees, tetris, random acts of kindness and so on. I shit you not.

(source: www.boyomega.com)