<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:0px none;margin:0px 0px .0001pt;padding:0px;color:#000000;font-family:Roboto, Noto, OpenSans, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;line-height:normal;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;" xml:lang="en-us">Apollo's career started at the age of 14 when the young Apostolos from Swedish town Borås, inspired by bands like <strong>Kiss </strong>and <strong>Alice Cooper</strong>, started playing with various bands, as an aspiring guitarist.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:0px none;margin:0px 0px .0001pt;padding:0px;color:#000000;font-family:Roboto, Noto, OpenSans, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;line-height:normal;"><em><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;" xml:lang="en-us">“Not many wanted to be vocalists back in those days. Everybody wanted to play the guitar, nobody wanted to sing. So I just decided to become a singer."</span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:0px none;margin:0px 0px .0001pt;padding:0px;color:#000000;font-family:Roboto, Noto, OpenSans, HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;line-height:normal;"><span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;" xml:lang="en-us">Apollo joined his first bands <strong>Blazon</strong> and <strong>Craze</strong> at the age of 17. Craze released a single <em>"Living In Sin"</em> but the band disbanded shortly thereafter when Apollo left to do his military service in 1988. It took another eight years before Apollo recorded his first full album with the band <strong>Faith Taboo</strong>.</span></p>
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