Born in Gothenburg on the Swedish West Coast. Started in early teenage to play the clarinet. Played in various jazz bands & started his own groups + played in the legendary Landala Red Hot Stompers with the cornet player and painter Jörgen Zetterqist.

6 years of art studies. 5 years in Valand Art-school, the art academy on the west coast. Painting & Sculpture studies. Today: in-between figurative and abstract painting.

Worked in Hagahuset. An old library transformed into a place for music, art & political activities.

Went to Mali, stayed in Wasoulou 1971-72 & studied the music of the hunters. The master musician and hunters bard (Donso Yeli) Broema Dombia became his teacher. Daily studies of the hunter’s harp, the Donso n´Goni & living with the hunters.

Back in Sweden Don Cherry looked him up & they began a long collaboration that went very influential for both of them.Over several years they played all over Europe. New York, Newport Festival & did recordings.
Don opened the door to his, and Ornette Colemans music & in turn Christer taught him to play the Donso n Goni.

In New York he met Frank Lowe & played with him & other musicians around Don. He formed the group Spjärnsvallet with Kjell Westling, Bengt Berger, & Nicke Ström. The group mainly played Christers compositions. He became a member
and co founder of the musicians collective
“ A lifetime memory”.

1977 he lived in Marrakech, Morocco and studied the Gnaoua music. The center of the Gnaoua cult is the music of the descendents of Bambara slaves. The same people Christer visited 71-72 in Mali. In Morocco as in Mali a master became his teacher:
MAllem Abdelatiff Maqsuomi ben Haschmi.

Abdelatiff open the door to Gnaoua & the Guimbri, the gnaoua Luth, + the metal castanets, Karqab & the drum Ganga. Daily studies of the Guinbri + a lot of
Gnaoua-Lillas (rituals).
Through the following years he visited Morocco and his teacher, off and on till 1994 when he invited his teacher
+ two members of his group to a concert tour in Sweden. They played traditional and together with Christer and a group of musicians from Sweden. The Group contained Marianne and Ulf Lindén, Rafael Sida, Roland Keiser.
In the beginning of 1980´s he formed the group Bolon Bata. A group playing Christers tunes, and arrangements of hunter and Gnaoua music in a new way, later called world music. Bolon Bata was touring Sweden for many years, slowly transforming into the even more adventurous Bolon X. Increasing open forms and improvisation. He started collaborations with Joik masters (the vocal art of the Same people) of Sapmi (Northern Norway). Touring with Marianne N´lemvo, Anita Livstrand, Ailo Gaup and Inga Yosso in “Nordkalotten”. Experimenting with Joik, African music and nontempered scales.