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He was born on 14 november 1976 in Budapest. Janos has been playing on guitar since1986.

He has been a professonal musician since 2000.

With his instrumental trio band, called K3 (Kallai Trio) they released their Under a Spell album (2007) with the very special guest Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater. This is one of the best things what Janos achieved nowadays.

playing and influences

„The music is a mystical thing, what we try to learn and understand, but the whole life is not enough to got answer what is this exactly. Many times I’m working under the influences of pictures of painters, writers’s books, and of course I have a lot of favourite band and guitar hero (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck, Mike Stern, Greg Howe…) So it would be a so long list if I had to write about these.

But the most important for me the feeling of the music, the band, and not always the guitar, and the soloist.”

(Janos Kallai)

„I played with lots of bands, but the trio is what I really love. This is a challenge. This challenge brings significant progress to the development of the professionalism and harmony. On live gigs we play with the tempos, the structures of the songs, we create intros, outros on stage, we love to improvisation, and play simple metal riffs, and difficult unisonos too, besides the written parts. Sometimes we think, we are working as a jazz band, but we play metal.”

(Interview with Janos Kallai in the he Polish Hard Rock Service)

„I cannot find the words to praise enough what Jancsi is doing on that guitar. Down with the hat to him!”

(Heavy Metal Magazine Sz.G.)

equipment

guitars:
Jackson Stealth EX Lefty (Red, Black), Dean Performer ELH

amplifier:
Engl Ritchie Blackmore Signature E-650

cabinet:
Engl XL pro E412 Vintage

some important events

• 2010: Marty Friedman & K3
• 2010: Quo Vadis & K3
• 2009: Living Colour & K3
• 2008: Paul Gilbert & K3
• 2008: Richie Kotzen & K3
• 2007: Devil's Slingshot & K3
• 2007: Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) & Cry Free (guitar: Janos Kallai)
• 2006: U.D.O. & Cry Free (guitar: Janos Kallai)
• 2003: Nazareth & Cry Free(guitar: Janos Kallai)

facts

• born:
  november 14. 1976, Budapest
   
• instrument:
  guitar
   
• the top 10 favourite guitar players in 2010:
  1. Jeff Beck
  2. Mick Thomson
  3. Dimebag Darell
  4. Joe Bonamassa
  5. Joe Satriani
  6. Angus Young
  7. Mike Stern
  8. Steve Morse
  9. Alan Holdsworth
  10. Greg Howe
   
• playing music since:
  1986
   
• first concert:
  Nazareth
   
• K3 members:
  Janos founded in 1995
   
• first rock album:
  AC/ DC: If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It)
   
• favourite bands:
  AC/DC, Pantera
   
• favourite albums:
  Sllipknot: All Hope Is Gone
  Joe Satriani: 1986-2010 all studio albums
  Pantera: 1992- 2000 all studio albums
  AC/DC: 1975- 2000 All studio albums
  Jeff Beck: Emotion & Commotion
   
• favourite film:
  The Fog
   
• favourite 3 music DVDs:
  Slipknot : Disasterpice
  Rammstein: Live Aus Berlin
  AC/DC: Live
   
• favourite book:
  Imre Kertesz: Fatelessness
  Tim Weiner: The History of the CIA
  Abdulin Manszur: Read Road from Stalingrad
  Daniel Estulin: Conspiracy
  Krivickij, Valter G.: In Stalin’s secret service
  Pal Földi books
   

 
• favourite K3 songs:
  Before Disaster, The End Of Evolution
   
• favourite K3 concert:
  Budapest, 2005. december 31.
   
• earlier bands:
  Voice,
  Mother Funker,
  Honey Flak,
  Cry Free (Deep Purple cover band)
   
• actual band:
  K3
   
• job:
  guitar teacher
   
• hobby:
  books,
  knives, daggers,
  riding a motorcycle