Nick Waterhouse Biography

Nick Waterhouse is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose art springs from a simple idea: everybody wants to be somebody else. Nick was born in 1986 and grew up in Huntington Beach, a place known predominantly for its tanning salons, commercial surf culture, and UFC fighters. Van Morrison who was one of his heroes, got his start covering Bobby Bland, whose musical idol was Nat “King” Cole. In Waterhouse’s view, emulation is a journey; you never truly succeed, but as he puts it, “You become something on the way there.” In his early teens, he established his musical abilities in the midst of the burgeoning Southern California DIY scene (Burger Records, Ty Segall, McHugh’s Distillery studio), through which he refined his own idiosyncratic perspective on the spirit of American Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll. Waterhouse started performing as a teenager. “It was really motivated by fear,” he recalls. “I’m kind of an introvert, so it was an uncomfortable situation. It was a way to force a crisis.” The young artist experienced an exhilaration he’d never felt before, and hasn’t found anywhere else since. “It’s a feeling of heightened awareness that goes beyond pleasure,” Waterhouse explains. “It has something to do with seeing ahead in time and behind in time all at once. You don’t just get the immediate reward; you get the potential that rewards you the same way.” On his breakthrough single, “Some Place,” recorded at all-analog studio the Distillery, Waterhouse explored the idea of potential and self-released this single in 2010 on his own Pres label. Waterhouse is a successful recording artist, with one well-received LP and several high-profile tours and collaborations to his name. But some of his work still embodies the struggle of his early days. These days, he just sounds like himself. Whoever Nick Waterhouse wanted to be, no longer matters.

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