 Biography Lars Ulrich
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Lars Ulrich
In Brief:
Lars Ulrich
Born: December 26, 1963
From: Gentofte, Denmark
Personal: Married, 1 Child
Specialty: Pounding, driving rhythms
Plays: drums
Vitals: green eyes, blonde/brown hair, 5'7"/1.7 meters tall, weighs 130 lbs/58.97 kilos
Lars was barely 10 years old when he attended a Deep Purple concert and learned what music could be. This was no small feat when you think of the music that young Lars had been exposed to up until that time. His father ran a small jazz club and was very involved in Europe's jazz scene. The legendary sax player Dexter Gordon is even Lars' godfather.
It was Deep Purple and Ritchie Blackmore that changed the world for Lars. He was impressed enough from their concert that he purchased their Fireball album the next day. Three years later at age 13, he persuaded his grandmother to buy him his first drum kit.
Drums and music took a backseat to tennis, his father's profession. Lars was a ranked junior player in his native Denmark when the Ulrichs moved to Newport Beach, California. There, Lars was just another tennis player, not the notable player he was in Denmark.
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