Peter Mikkola was born in 1959 in Stockholm, Sweden. Raised as an only child to a single mother. After a happy childhood with no music influence more than the radio his mother brought him to a music school at 11 years of age where Peter began to play the drums.

At age 13 Peter formed his first band together with some schoolmates. They rehearsed in the music room at school. Since Peter seamed to be the only drummer at school the music teacher used him for all kinds of performances. As soon as a drummer was needed they called for Peter. When elementary school was over the band got help from an understanding teacher to rent a store room under the mall. During a couple of years they rehearsed and jammed up to four hours a night. Peter has said: “In spite of all musical training I have received and all music schools I have attended, it was here where I really learned to play.” In august 1979 the band entered a studio for the first time to make a demo. The mixer technician was so impressed by Peters timing that he wanted to record some different drum styles so he could use it with other bands. (This was long before anyone had heard the word “sampling”.) Peter declined. He was afraid of ending up on a dance band record.

At this time Peter met a drum teacher that pretty much taught him all there is to know about classical percussion and drumming and how to approach practicing and also teaching drums. An approach that Peter uses to this day. We are now in the beginning of the 80's. Peter started at a music high school. He got his first employment as a drum teacher at part time and then another teaching job part time. He joined Papa Freud, his first commercial band where he played through out the 80's.

At 1989 Peter quit the band and began taking private lessons in Jazz theory from another teacher that made a huge impact on him. This is the best decision Peter ever made professionally speaking. During a period of 5 years, he was taught the whole II-V-I jazz system.

1994 Peter met his wife to be. During 1995 – 1999 they had 3 daughters and Peter stopped playing with bands to spend as much time as possible with his family. 1998 he bought his first Apple computer. The goal was to write books in music theory. 1999 three books where finished and released on Peters own publishing company Void Note AB.

About 2003 – 2004, Peters employer gave him free training for his old Jazz theory teacher. This time the subject was modal music. The missing piece for Peter. In 2005 he had another brilliant idea. Why not make a game/training software in ear training for mobile phones? Said and done. In 2007 Peter released Eartraining I. Though books in music theory and an ear training app seams to be a good idea the reality says it isn't. The company is now closed and the app is on Getjar, a free downloading site. But no sad faces here. Now Peter presents his music in the belief that people don't want to read about secondary dominants, they want to hear it! His music composing has been overlooked by Peter earlier.