Background
Uģis Prauliņš was born in Riga and studied at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School from 1963-1974.
Uģis Prauliņš was born in Riga and studied at the Emīls Dārziņš Music School from 1963-1974.
Later, he studied conducting and pedagogy at the Latvian Academy of Music from 1977-1982, where he also studied composition with Jānis Ivanovs in 1982-1983 and Ģederts Ramans from 1984-1989 and piano with Valda Kalnina from 1977-1982 and 1984-1989.
As a keyboardist, he was active as a rock musician in the progressive rock group Salve in the 1970s and in the folk-/progressive-rock group Vecās mājas in the 1980s.