Influences: the ubiquitous voodoo of the world, Jeff
Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Son House, Coldplay, The
Beatles, The Blues (in all or its many incarnations),
Calogero (French), Nick Drake, Jorge Luis Borges,
Hayehudim(Isr'li) Radiohead, Nirvana, Asi Mei,
Smashing Pumpkins, Middle-Eastern music, Tim Burton
movies, Nirvana, Joe Satriani, Stevie Ray Vaughn,
William Blake, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Erik Satie,
Shakespeare, The Pixies, Mahavishnu Orchestra
Born in 1983, to a classical guitarist father and a jazz
pianist mother, Andres Wilson was named after the
famed classical guitarist Andres Segovia. Many would
later remark that there was a hint of kismet at work in
his title. A born artist, Andres first showed prowess as
an actor and model. He spent his formative years
reciting lines behind the camera or atop the stage as
the star of television commercials and theater.
Traveling the continental United States as an actor,
jarring decibels of Nirvana, 50's rock, Jimi Hendrix, and
Guns N' Roses perpetually pierced through his
headphones. His grandmother's affinity for the blues
also implanted itself firmly in his aural memory, as the
family would often sing along with Lightning Hopkins
and John Lee Hooker boogies while riding along the
wide highways between Boston, L.A. and New York.
Andres absorbed the beauty of a song's hook and its
desperate cries concurrently with the undulating open-
roads and the vast hollow of America.
When he had more or less settled back at his home in
suburban Massachusetts, after much begging and
pleading with his family, Andres received an electric
guitar for his thirteenth birthday and a rock star was
born. His broadening awareness of various musical
styles manifested itself in his guitar playing, and it
would eventually affect the often complex, but always
pop/blues-rooted sound that he has made his own. At
sixteen years old, he was touring New England with his
underground / outsider-music pianist mother and
earning a reputation as the best young lead guitar
player in Boston through his work in metal bands like
Tribal Demise and 69 Days. After graduating from
Lawrence Academy, where he was the recipient of
graduation awards for music and writing, Andres
enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston
where he completed a summa cum laude B.M. in the
Professional Music major (Fall 03'). Andres has also
studied classics, linguistics, and creative writing at
Harvard University.
The music of Andres Wilson blends his myriad of
influences into intense, melodic, and richly poetic
songs where his voice rises and soars over the always-
bluesy thrashing of inventive harmonies from his
acoustic guitar. Sinuous, violin-like guitar lines
embellish the groove with inventive pulchritude. Live
shows are defined by jaw dropping,compositional
guitar heroics and moments of vocal transcendence.
He is influenced, like everyone despite how they
manifest this notion, by a dumbfounded understanding
of the metaphysical and a weakness in the face of love.
Andres has played in all of the largest venues
throughout New England and New York, and he has
won several guitar and songwriting competitions. Now,
he is poised to make the world listen to a unique sound
that must be heard.