Loading details…
Artist
Nathaniel Street West
12+ albums
radioparadiseradio paradise
about
Artists:Nathaniel Street West Despite his youth, Nathaniel Street-West has traveled a long way. Born in a cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills on the day after Christmas — raised in places as contradictory as Nevada City, San Francisco and Trancas (Malibu), Calfornia; Austin, Texas; Aspen, Colorado; and Fort Lauderdale, Florida — Street-West learned early on to appreciate the diversity of the American landscape and learned to love the long cross country drives with his family as he read authors like Jack Kerouac and Edward Abbey to help stoke the fires of his imagination . He became comfortable in his role as new kid in town, learned to live with a painful & debilitating chronic illness, and mastered the guitar so quickly that he was admitted at age fifteen to the college degree program at Musicians' Institute in Hollywood - the youngest student ever accepted by that competitive academy to the college level course. He recorded his first homebrew album at fourteen, released a few more over the next several years, played for tourists along the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, played for 500+ at the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard, and in general did the best he could to hone his craft as a songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, and performer. Street-West has a five and a half octave voice which has been developing since he began singing with the help of professional training at about age 15. Early on, as a teenager, he simply copied other rock and bues singers he admired a
