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Also known as Plini Roessler-Holgate

Plini Roessler-Holgate (born 1992 or 1993), known mononymously as Plini, is an Australian guitarist and songwriter. He began his career by releasing music under the name Halcyon, before switching to the use of his first name. Steve Vai described him as "the future of exceptional guitar playing", and the website MusicRadar named Plini the best prog guitarist of 2017.

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AU
Active from
1992-07-25

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Plini Roessler-Holgate (born 1992 or 1993), known mononymously as Plini, is an Australian guitarist and songwriter. He began his career by releasing music under the name Halcyon, before switching to the use of his first name. Steve Vai described him as "the future of exceptional guitar playing", and the website MusicRadar named Plini the best prog guitarist of 2017. Plini has released a trilogy of extended plays (Other Things and Sweet Nothings in 2013, The End of Everything in 2015). <a href="

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Musical artist.background
person
Musical artist.name
Plini
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Plini248 300x RG (cropped).jpg
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Plini performing in 2017
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Plini playing guitar onstage
Musical artist.birth_place
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Musical artist.alias
Halcyon
Musical artist.years_active
2011–present

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Official name
Plini Roessler-Holgate
Image
Plini248 300x RG.jpg
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start of work period
2011-00-00
date of birth
1992-07-25
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Contents
  • Influences
  • Doja Cat controversy
  • Discography
  • Studio albums
  • EPs
  • Singles
  • Live albums
  • Contributions
  • National Live Music Awards
  • References
  • External links

Plini Roessler-Holgate (born 1992 or 1993), known mononymously as Plini, is an Australian guitarist and songwriter. He began his career by releasing music under the name Halcyon, before switching to the use of his first name. Steve Vai described him as "the future of exceptional guitar playing", and the website MusicRadar named Plini the best prog guitarist of 2017.

Plini has released a trilogy of extended plays (Other Things and Sweet Nothings in 2013, The End of Everything in 2015). His debut album, Handmade Cities, which Vai described as "one of the finest, forward-thinking, melodic, rhythmically and harmonically deep instrumental guitar records [he has] ever heard", was released in 2016. Sunhead, an EP, was released in 2018, followed by his second full-length album, Impulse Voices, in 2020.

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