One of my first memories is taking my dad's old electric guitar at the age of 3 and posing in front of the mirror. According to my parents I didn't want to put it down. Even though this wasn't a real beginning, I somehow still carry this memory. A few years later I kept on taking the same guitar out of the closet even though I wasn't supposed to. I did it anyways but quietly. This pretty much describes my relation to music and guitars. This well is deep. Really deep. 

I played piano for 5 years because I was told it's important. I didn't care much for it back then but - as always - the adults were right. At the age of 14 I picked up the guitar again, this time for real. I learned my first C and Am chords that day in summer camp and it was on. I played until my fingers bled. It was awesome.

My first teacher, Tibor Bartha showed me everything that I know about chicken pickin' and hybrid picking, and prepared me for the entrance exams to music college (Kőbányai Zenei Stúdió in Budapest). He is always gonna be like a "guitar dad" to me. 

Then came 4 years of music college where I learned a lot about blues, jazz and fusion. After that I forgot a lot about jazz and fusion, haha. Still, playing with the college bands and learning from those fantastic teachers opened up my ears to music on a whole new level. Life changing experience. 

I'll forever be grateful to my amazing teachers, Zoli Maróthy, Gyula Babos and Ferenc Tornóczky.

I played in rock, metal, folk, progressive, pop-rock bands, some were pretty successful, others not at all. I even played and sang in a party-funk band in Mallorca for half a year to earn some money. Imagine me singing Bee Gees. Crazy times... 

I moved to Germany in 2008 and played in multiple Top 40 bands over the years. I learned a lot from that, a working musician really needs to understand gear, tone, monitoring and all of those things. After around 1000 cover shows I felt like I wanted to do something else and started making YouTube videos for Thomann in 2016. Since 2019 I run my own YouTube channel too and those two jobs keep me quite busy. Which is something I truly love. 

After a long break it was time to record original music again and finally, in 2025 my first solo album came out. Ego Town is a collection of songs that are very dear to me and lyrics that are deep and personal. This album was basically a therapy session for me, this is not just the smiley-happy Kris that you might know from the videos. 

Thanks for being here, reading this and being a part of this journey. I really appreciate it. 

Bands and projects

1996-2000 Domain my first proper band, first recordings, tons of amazing memories with great old friends.

2000 István a Király Legendary Hungarian rock musical; huge high-school project involving hundreds of us kids and some of our teachers; we performed in theaters in Hungary and France.

2003-2008 Tűzmadár Hungarian power metal band with progressive elements; we played festivals, many big stages, released albums and it all looked really good. We almost made it. It was so close.

2006 István a Király due to the success 6 years prior we revisited the musical for another set of shows

2007-2008 Torres Dani a successful Hungarian pop musician. Dani was looking for a guitar player. After he found me we had an amazing time playing music together.

2004-2007 Holdudvar Hungarian folk music with odd time signatures; super exciting mixture of traditional songs and a modern approach

2008-2012 Cherokee rock / metal cover band in Germany; the Top 40 scene in Franconia (Germany) is big and impressive. Pro bands, crews and events, a proper treat for music enthusiasts. 

2011-2014 Forever Nite melancholic-dark heavy band with male and female vocals. 

2011-2013 KISS ON FIRE KISS tribute band

2012-2020 Good News Rock / pop-rock cover band; the Top 40 scene in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) is equally big as in Franconia, haha! Another fantastic band with top-shelf musicians, it was an honour playing with them.

2016- Thomann's Guitars & Basses YouTube channel

2019- Kris Barocsi YouTube channel

2023-2025 Recording Ego Town my first solo album