Steve Roach is a composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings have been influential in the trance and new-age genres - in fact he has received Grammy Award nominations for New Age Album of the Year:
From California, he taught taught himself to play the synthesizer when he was 20; among his first instruments were a Roland SH-3A and Vox Continental.
Roach was was greatly influenced by electronic music as a teenager, particularly Timewind (1975) by Klaus Schulze and works by Tangerine Dream and Brian Eno. He was also influenced by progressive rock, namely Close to the Edge (1972) by Yes and Ummagumma (1969) by Pink Floyd.
