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About Me

NICK GARRETT -- Bass-baritone, pianist, songwriter, arranger. He's sung over 33 major operatic roles, performed in front of millions, including royalty.
Nick was a founding member;and bass-baritone, for the multi-million selling artist Amici forever, composing and arranging all the vocal arrangements on their most recent album Defined.
Nick is now embarking on his solo recording career and as a true classical crossover performer, Nick Garrett has done it all. In a recent press interview Nick explains,"....'crossing over' means that I am first and foremost an opera singer, but I love experimenting and I have a connection with world music and jazz, easy listening and rock and pop, as well as classical music. I do think that crossover needs to evolve. Its not good enough now just to overlay a beat with some strings. Audiences have become more sophisticated and they want to see real talent and true ability from a cross-over artist. After all how can you be cross-over if you havent crossed-over from anywhere? I enjoyed arranging Defined for Amici forever. I am proud of my contribution to the album and although I no longer sing with the group its gratifying to know that my music lives on through them."
According to the HMV review, "Garrett, has the knack of identifying what famous classical melodies will work for voice and cleverly rearranging them as Italianate operatic showstoppers."
Having taught himself to play the piano from the age of seven, Nick was accepted by Trinity College of Music to study singing, composition, piano and conducting before wining a much coveted singing grant from the Wolfson Foundation.
Since the launch of his official website , a staggering 1 million visitors have hit the site within just 5 months and his VIP Inner Sanctum Members are growing daily. Whether performing live or on CD, the unmistakable, rich and powerful voice of Nick Garrett resonates in the hearts and minds of all who hear him. Listen to his own compositions and see why he has been tipped by the music press as "....the one to watch in 2006."

My Interests

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Member Since: 3/20/2006
Band Website: nickgarrett.net
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Influences: classics, Thom Yorke etc.
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Type of Label: Major

My Blog

official forum

I'm sure most of you have discovered that we've decided to take down the forum over at nickgarrett.net. I cannot thank you all enough for your fantastic contributions to it over the last 3...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Wed, 21 May 2008 09:39:00 PST

a quick ’hello’

All good with me...hoping to see a few familiar faces at the Leeds Town Hall on March 16th. Love to all the GG's as always Nick xx
Posted by Nick Garrett on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST

Happy 2008

Stopping by to do a quick blog over here to sincerely wish everyone a very Happy and Healthy New Year and to apologise for being AWOL during the latter part of 07. Everyone here and o...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:26:00 PST

A Review of my CD

Thought you might want to read this review of my album which classical x wrote and it may interest some of you who are not so familiar with what's on it to dig deep and buy a copy...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:10:00 PST

NICK GARRETT CD available NOW on pre-order from www.nickgarrett.net

To all my friends over here who are enjoying my music I thought you might like to know that ... My CD mini album is now available as a pre-order from my official website at www.nickgarrett.net ...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:20:00 PST

OFFICIAL MY SPACE

Due to my crazy schedule I wanted to personally let all 'my friends' over here know that my management team, who are fantastic, will now be helping me with the day ...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:39:00 PST

THERE'S A PARTY OVER AT MY OFFICIAL SITE !!

AUGUST 20th is (according to those in the know!) the one year birthday of my official website and there's going to be quite a cyber party by the looks of what's going up on my For...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:58:00 PST

NEW LOOK TO MY OFFICIAL WEBSITE

There's a bit of a 'face lift' over at my official website www.nickgarrett.net - hope you like the new image on the HOME PAGE and now there are a couple more 'screen savers' to download too. Why...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:11:00 PST

SATURDAY AUGUST 26TH at CLASSICAL IN THE PARK

I am delighted to announce that I will be performing live in concert on SATURDAY AUGUST 26TH at "CLASSICAL IN THE PARK" at Congleton Park, Congleton, Cheshire. This spectacular c...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:34:00 PST

Classicalx's competition winner Lyndsey has a date with Nick

As featured on classical x Classicalx's competition winner Lyndsey has a date with Nick. Lyndsey had been overjoyed to discover that she had won the Classicalx Competition to be Nick's guest ...
Posted by Nick Garrett on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:14:00 PST