He was greatly influenced by British Invasion bands like The Beatles and The Dave Clark Five. His parents wanted the boys to be classical pianists, but Van Halen gravitated towards rock music. Between 19, he won first place in the annual piano competition held at Long Beach City College. Van Halen was never taught to read music instead, he would watch recitals of Bach or Mozart and improvise. They commuted from Pasadena to San Pedro to study with an elderly piano teacher, Stasys Kalvaitis. The brothers learned to play the piano as children starting at the age of six. in 1962 and settled near other family members in Pasadena, California where Eddie and his brother Alex attended elementary school. The family eventually settled in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Jan was a Dutch jazz pianist, clarinetist and saxophonist, and Eugenia was an Indo ( Eurasian) from Rangkasbitung on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was a son of Jan Van Halen and Eugenia ( née van Beers).
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