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Artist
Barrett Heaton
2+ albums
mash-upexperimental
about
Well. Barrett Heaton. Yes. Um... this man started as a boy singing while riding around in cars around suburban Chicago. Chicagoland shall we say. His parents listened to the radio but had a few cassette tapes of their own: Carole King's Tapestry, James Taylor's greatest hits, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and so on. You know the deal. From there Barrett joined a large A Cappella ensemble at his local high school in Barrington, Illinois. He sang his heart out as a tenor and got a few bit parts in the ambitious musicals the school would stage each year. Barrett transfered to a private boarding school in Southboro, Massachusetts where he began to develop his own style as a writer, consumer, and social entity. His teachers reading his papers remarked on the fluid, creative style but the lack of convention in the work. Barrett engaged in a number of school clubs including Yearbook, squash, soccer, and tennis, but perhaps most notably for this website, he edited the school's art/poetry rag. At one point his hips went out causing him to go into Boston Children's hospital for the insertion of metal pins. During this time he slept in the afternoons at the boarding school while all the other students were out in the fields playing sports. He then was fresh enough to wander the darkened halls of the school while his teachers and fellow students slept. He identified the insomniacs and regularly visited them. On these evening trysts Barrett came into contact with a variety of type
