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He is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and teacher born
in Tamilnadu, India, as one of eight children to a family where his parents
were missionaries and his brother Jim now works with him as a co-musician. They returned to St. Louis, Missouri,
when he was eight years old where he would later take further studies in
composition and theory at Webster University and go on to become a faculty
member as a professor in jazz guitar.
In the 1980s he brought together his own The Peter Mayer Group, first
known as known as PM, and saw success in 1988 with the single "Piece of
Paradise" which achieved No. 8 on the Billboard chart after it had first appeared
on his debut album. His
producer, Eliot Scheiner, was also asked to work on Jimmy Buffett's album Off
to See the Lizard and after having suggested PM to be used in the
studio, they were taken on to be members of his Coral Reefer Band and have worked
with him ever since. Some of the
albums he has appeared on during his career to date include his own Romeo's
Garage, PM and Green Eyed Radio and also Feeding Frenzy,
Fruitcakes, Barometer Soup. Banana Wind, Take the Weather With You and
Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads by Jimmy Buffett and the soundtrack
of Arachnophobia.
Sources:
- http://www.petermayer.com/
- http://www.myspace.com/petermayergroup
- http://www.buffettworld.com/band.html#12
- http://members.aol.com/JolyMonBPB/stlouis.htm
- http://www.buffettnews.com/bandmember150.html
- http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Peter%20Mayer:1927379770
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