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Benjamin Brian Thomas Watt (born 6 December 1962) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, author, DJ and radio presenter, best known as one half of the duo Everything but the Girl. [1]

99 relations: Alternative rock, Atlantic Records, Author, Autoimmune disease, Baillie Gifford Prize, Barnes, London, BBC Radio 6 Music, Bernard Butler, Billboard Hot 100, Blanco y Negro Records, Caroline Records, Charles Webster (musician), Chelsea, London, Cherry Red Records, Chrysalis Records, David Gilmour, Deep house, Dennis Ferrer, Disc jockey, DJ Awards, DJ Mag, Electric Zoo, Electronica, England, Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, Estelle (musician), Everything but the Girl, Ewan Pearson, Exit (festival), Fever Dream (Ben Watt album), Figurines, Folk rock, Giant Step, Good Vibrations Festival, Groove Armada, Guitar, Hampstead, Hendra (Ben Watt album), Hiss Golden Messenger, House music, John Tejada, Kevin Coyne, Keyboard instrument, List of DJ Awards winners and nominees, London, Los Angeles Review of Books, Love and Its Opposite, Marissa Nadler, Marylebone, Maxwell (musician), ..., Meshell Ndegeocello, Missing (Everything but the Girl song), Musician, New wave music, North Marine Drive, Notting Hill Arts Club, Organ (music), Patient (memoir), Phonograph, Piano, Pink Floyd, Programming (music), RAK Studios, Record label, Record producer, Register office (United Kingdom), Remix, Robert Wyatt, Romany Bain, Rough Trade Records, Sade (singer), Sandy Rivera, Singer-songwriter, Singing, Sire Records, Space (Ibiza nightclub), Spoken word, Suede (band), Sunshine Anderson, Synthesizer, Television presenter, Terence Trent D'Arby, The Daily Telegraph, The End (club), The Falling (2014 film), The Guardian, The Libertines, The Unbending Trees, Tim Buckley, Tommy Watt, Tracey Thorn, Uncut (magazine), University of Hull, Virgin Records, Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Records, William Boyd (writer), Winter Music Conference, Zero 7. Expand index (49 more) »

Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Autoimmune disease

An autoimmune disease is a condition arising from an abnormal immune response to a normal body part.

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Baillie Gifford Prize

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize) is an annual British prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language.

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Barnes, London

Barnes is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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BBC Radio 6 Music

BBC Radio 6 Music (also still known as BBC 6 Music or BBC 6) is one of the BBC's digital radio stations.

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Bernard Butler

Bernard Joseph Butler (born 1 May 1970) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blanco y Negro Records

Blanco y Negro Records (Spanish: "White and Black"), a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records and Mike Alway of Cherry Red.

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Caroline Records

Caroline Records is an American record label that started as a subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Records America during the early to mid-1970s.

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Charles Webster (musician)

Charles Webster is a British electronic music producer and DJ who specialises in producing house music, amongst several other genres, including downtempo and jazz.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red Records is a British independent record label founded by Iain McNay in 1978.

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Chrysalis Records

Chrysalis Records is a British record label that was created in 1968.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Deep house

Deep house is a subgenre of house music.

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Dennis Ferrer

Dennis Ferrer (born 1970) is a New York-based DJ, producer and remixer.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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DJ Awards

DJ Awards is a nonprofit organization which organizes the annual electronic music DJ Awards event, which is the oldest and only international ceremony that solely awards DJs.

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DJ Mag

DJ Magazine (also known as DJ Mag) is a British monthly magazine dedicated to electronic dance music and DJs.

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Electric Zoo

Electric Zoo is an annual electronic music festival held over Labor Day weekend in New York City on Randall's Island.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), also known as Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) or allergic granulomatosis, is an extremely rare autoimmune condition that causes inflammation of small and medium-sized blood vessels (vasculitis) in persons with a history of airway allergic hypersensitivity (atopy).

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Estelle (musician)

Estelle Fanta Swaray (born 18 January 1980), simply known as Estelle, is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress from West London, England.

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Everything but the Girl

Everything but the Girl (sometimes referred to as EBTG) was an English musical duo, formed in Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, producer and singer Ben Watt.

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Ewan Pearson

Ewan Pearson is an English electronic music producer/remixer who works under various aliases including Maas, Sulky Pup, Villa America, World of Apples, and Dirtbox.

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Exit (festival)

Exit (Егзит / Egzit) is an award-winning summer music festival which is held at the Petrovaradin Fortress in the city of Novi Sad, Serbia.

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Fever Dream (Ben Watt album)

Fever Dream is the third solo studio album by English singer, songwriter, author, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Watt.

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Figurines

Figurines is an indie rock band from Denmark, formed in the mid-1990s.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Giant Step

Giant Step is a media, events and marketing company headquartered in New York City.

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Good Vibrations Festival

Good Vibrations Festival commenced in 2004 and is an annual Australian music festival held in Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast and Perth.

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Groove Armada

Groove Armada are an English electronic music duo, composed of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Hendra (Ben Watt album)

Hendra is the second studio album released by the English singer, author and multi-instrumentalist Ben Watt on April 15, 2014 through Unmade Road, under exclusive license to Caroline International.

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Hiss Golden Messenger

Hiss Golden Messenger is an American folk music band, originating from Durham, North Carolina, led by MC Taylor.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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John Tejada

John Tejada is a Vienna born, Los Angeles raised electronic composer.

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Kevin Coyne

Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 – 2 December 2004) was an English musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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List of DJ Awards winners and nominees

This is a list of DJ Awards winners and nominees.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles Review of Books

The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) is a literary review journal covering the national and international book scenes.

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Love and Its Opposite

Love and Its Opposite is the third solo album by former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn, released on 17 May 2010.

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Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler (born April 5, 1981) is an American musician and fine artist based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Marylebone

Marylebone (or, both appropriate for the Parish Church of St. Marylebone,,, or) is an affluent inner-city area of central London, England, located within the City of Westminster and part of the West End.

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Maxwell (musician)

Gerald Maxwell Rivera better known by his stage names Maxwell and Musze, is an American (of Puerto Rican and Haitian descent) singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Meshell Ndegeocello

Michelle Lynn Johnson, better known as Meshell Ndegeocello (born August 29, 1968), is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and bassist.

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Missing (Everything but the Girl song)

"Missing" is a song by British popular music duo Everything but the Girl, taken from their eighth studio album Amplified Heart (1994).

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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North Marine Drive

North Marine Drive is the debut album of Ben Watt.

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Notting Hill Arts Club

The Notting Hill Arts Club is a music and arts venue in Notting Hill, central London, England.

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Organ (music)

In music, the organ (from Greek ὄργανον organon, "organ, instrument, tool") is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands on a keyboard or with the feet using pedals.

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Patient (memoir)

Patient is the name of a 192-page memoir by musician Ben Watt.

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Phonograph

The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Programming (music)

Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.

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RAK Studios

RAK Studios is a recording studio complex with residential facilities located near Regent's Park in central London, United Kingdom.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Register office (United Kingdom)

A register office, much more commonly registry office (except in official use), is a British government office where births, deaths and marriages are officially recorded and civil marriages take place.

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Remix

A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item.

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career.

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Romany Bain

Romany Bain (22 March 1924 – 29 March 2015) was a British journalist and showbusiness interviewer.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Sade (singer)

Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Fọláṣadé Adú; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade, is a British Nigerian singer and songwriter.

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Sandy Rivera

Sandy Rivera is an American record producer, House music DJ and label owner.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Space (Ibiza nightclub)

Space was a Superclub on the island of Ibiza, Spain from 1986 to 2016, owned by STANCA.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.

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Suede (band)

Suede are an English alternative rock band formed in London in 1989.

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Sunshine Anderson

Sunshine Jocelyn Sian Anderson (born June 7, 1974) is a female American R&B and soul singer and songwriter.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Television presenter

A presenter is a person who introduces or hosts television programs (or segments thereof such as an infomercial advertiser).

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Terence Trent D'Arby

Sananda Francesco Maitreya (born Terence Trent Howard, March 15, 1962), better known by his former stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, released in July 1987, which included the singles "If You Let Me Stay", "Wishing Well", "Dance Little Sister" and "Sign Your Name".

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The End (club)

The End was a nightclub in the West End of London, England.

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The Falling (2014 film)

The Falling is a 2014 British mystery drama film written and directed by Carol Morley.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Libertines

The Libertines are an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât (vocals/guitar) and Pete Doherty (vocals/guitar).

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The Unbending Trees

Hailing from Budapest in Hungary, The Unbending Trees are a musical project, and specialize in sparse chamber ballads and slo-core pop.

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Tim Buckley

Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Tommy Watt

Tommy Watt (31 October 1925, Glasgow - 20 May 2006, Bristol, England) was a Scottish jazz bandleader.

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Tracey Thorn

Tracey Anne Thorn (born 26 September 1962) is an English singer, songwriter and writer.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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University of Hull

The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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William Boyd (writer)

William Boyd (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.

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Winter Music Conference

The Winter Music Conference (WMC) is a week-long electronic music conference, held every March in Miami Beach, Florida, United States since 1985.

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Zero 7

Zero 7 are an English musical duo consisting of Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Watt

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