Toggo

Toggo (born Torgeir Engan) is a Norwegian American musician and author.
Early Life
Toggo grew up in Trondheim. At age 19, he moved to Hollywood, California, where he attended the Musicians Institute. He decided to make Hollywood his permanent home. he spent the next 5-6 years playing Hollywood clubs with various local bands.
Scared of Girls
In 2000, Toggo signed a production deal with producer/engineer Matt Pakucko. After recording several songs, Toggo started putting together what was to become Scared Of Girls. With neon-bright hair, ultra-melodic songs and high energy live shows, Scared Of Girls became a household name on the local Hollywood scene. The band achieved sell-out crowds whenever they played, in large part to their promotion campaigns, which consisted of the band distributing 10 000 glossy postcards before every show, as well as taping over-sized band posters all over town. The band's tie-ins with Hollywood Billboard Queen Angelyne also gave Scared Of Girls added notoriety.
[http://new.us.music.yahoo.com/scared-of-girls/albums/sonic-boom--12713817 In late 2001, the band released their debut EP "Sonic Boom"], to rave reviews from publications like listen.com and Music Connection Magazine. Scared Of Girls signed another production deal, this time with Jeff Gross and grammy winning engineer/producer Mattie Spindell (Santana, Motley Crue), before disbanding under mysterious circumstances in 2005.

[http://books.google.no/books?id6MxeMybTTbcC&pgPA199&lpgPA199&dqtoggo+scared+of+girls&sourcebl&otscJZYwe7VOu&sigdgN46BlteeGELZyWHzogUj6JKTY&hlen&einy05S4GgJI3s-Ablzu2uCg&saX&oibook_result&ctresult&resnum5&ved0CBYQ6AEwBDgU#vonepage&qtoggo%20scared%20of%20girls&f=false Toggo was also featured] in the book Aunt Bessie's How to Survive a Day Job While Pursuing the Creative Life, alongside notables like Clive Barker, Tom Cruise, Stephen King and more.
Writing
In late 2005, Toggo mysteriously disappeared from Hollywood. His friends and fans set up "missing" pages on social networks like myspace, trying to find out why the singer left his friends, fans, car, house, band and everything else without a word, but to no avail. In the fall of 2006, Toggo briefly resurfaced in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an online announcement that he was "taking a break" to reflect and recharge.
3 years later, in the fall of 2009, Toggo announced from his web site that he is in the process of writing the book Rock'n Roll Virus. The book chronicles Toggo's mystical disappearance.
Toggo is currently staying in Trondheim Norway, "working on music", according to his official site, with plans to return to the US in winter/early spring of 2010.

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