Andrew Wyatt
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Wyatt performs with Miike Snow at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California
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| Birth name | Andrew Wyatt Blakemore |
| Origin | New York City, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2003–present |
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Andrew Wyatt Blakemore, known simply as Andrew Wyatt, is an American musician, songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Manhattan, New York, he has played in New York bands such as The A.M. and Black Beetle. He is currently the vocalist in the Swedish electronic pop band Miike Snow. Wyatt has worked extensively with other artists, writing and/or producing songs with Carl Barat, Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson, Flume, Dragons of Zynth, Coco Sumner and others. Andrew Wyatt's songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing.
Wyatt grew up on Perry Street in Manhattan in the 1980s. At 18, he and musician Greg Kurstin formed the short-lived experimental pop band Funkraphiliacs, whereupon he was signed to Capitol Records as a solo artist. He worked on the album in Bath, UK, at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios for about a year, with the Pet Shop Boys and Siouxsie Sioux producer Stephen Hague, until chemical dependency and psychological issues forced him into hospitalization at New York's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. Surmising that a major label release with its incumbent pressures was not realistic, it was decided that a period of respite was needed. Wyatt moved to a small mountain town in Boulder, Colorado for several years, where he briefly attended the University of Colorado.
After briefly studying at classical conservatory, he returned to New York City and shortly thereafter formed the group The A.M. with Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, formerly of Jeff Buckley's band. The group released one album on Universal UK before disbanding in 2005.
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