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Artist
Evan Watson
12+ albums
bluessinger-songwriterAllUSAjohn mayer
about
Singer-songwriter Evan Watson was born on May 30, 1985, and grew up in Crawfordsville, Indiana. His father teaches at Wabash College and his mother, a trained actor, also works at the College in outreach programs and in Admissions. His brother is an anthropologist. Evan’s early music education was largely informal with lessons in piano, the trumpet, and the instrument he embraces with serious passion, the guitar. His love for the guitar was shaped by his intense study of guitar legends B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, and many others. Today, he performs with at least one guitar that he personally rebuilt, a 1979 Strat. In 2007, Evan graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio with departmental honors in philosophy and a minor in religious studies. A celebrated college football athlete, Evan received first team ESPN All-American consideration, two-time Defensive Player of the Year awards from the College of Wooster Fighting Scots, and three-time All-Conference recognition. Throughout his college career, including a semester at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Evan performed as a singer-guitarist, while developing his talent as a songwriter. Though his admirers were small in number at the time, one member of that group was fellow Wooster student, Christina, who introduced Evan to her uncle New York producer, musician, and BMI award-winning songwriter, Peter Zizzo. Peter Zizzo has authored songs for Celine Dion, O.A.R, Jennifer Lopez, Donna Summ
