Acting
Nathan Watts
Born
1954-03-25 (72)
Place of birth
Detroit, Michigan USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
2 titles
Nathan Lamar Watts (born March 25, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan.) is an American session bassist, best known for his work with Stevie Wonder from the 1970s to the present. He has served as Stevie Wonder's musical director since 1994. Born in Detroit, Nathan Watts started playing the trumpet while he was still in elementary school, inspired by Lee Morgan. Watts was part of a trio that featured other future prominent session musicians Ray Parker Jr. on clarinet and drummer Ollie Brown and frequented Motown's Hitsville Studios to attend rehearsals and recordings of The Funk Brothers, the base-band of the label. When Parker abandoned the clarinet in favor of the guitar, he convinced Watts to swit…
Known for
7.7A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.
Classic Albums
1997
7.1LIVE AT LAST was filmed at the O2 in the London during 'A Wonder Summer's Night' tour in 2008, his first tour in over a decade which sold over 120, 000 tickets in the UK alone. The track list traces a lifetime of innovation and accomplishment stretching from Wonder's teens with "My Cherie Amour" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" as well as iconic hits that redefined pop and R&B music, including "Superstition," "Higher Ground," "Living For the City," "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and "I Wish," while reaching into his classic albums for such enduring fan favorites as "All I Do," "Overjoyed" and "Knocks Me Off My Feet..."
Stevie Wonder: Live at Last
2009