1. Adam Wakeman was born on 11 March 1974 and is an English musician and the current keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's band; he played keyboards and guitar off-stage for Black Sabbath.
15 Facts About Adam Wakeman
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Adam Wakeman created the fictional character Milton Keanes, a disillusioned jazz pianist from the 1960s and released several YouTube mockumentaries and albums under the name Jazz Sabbath, with the album Volume 2 reaching number 6 on the Billboard Jazz Chart in 2022.
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Adam Wakeman has often collaborated with his father, Rick Adam Wakeman, and has released albums with him.
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Adam Wakeman has released solo albums Soliloquy, 100 Years Overtime, Real World Trilogy and Neurasthenia.
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Adam Wakeman started playing classical piano at the age of eight.
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Adam Wakeman cites Dr John, Monty Alexander, Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater and Mark Kelly of Marillion as influences, with the solo from Marillion's "Incommunicado" one of the first he learned to play as a child.
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At the age of 24, Adam Wakeman won the Keyboard Magazine Best New Talent award and promptly started a session career of his own in London.
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Adam Wakeman recorded several albums with Rick, as Wakeman with Wakeman, and he participated on three of his father's solo albums.
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Adam Wakeman participated in Rick's tours from 1992, and he appeared in the Border TV's 1996 broadcast and VHS presentation of The New Gospels from the Isle of Man, the DVD from the Gran Rex, Argentina as well as 2009's Six Wives of Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace.
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On 2 July 2011, Adam Wakeman started his own radio show on TotalRock radio in London along with fellow members of Headspace, where he playing "the best rock, metal and prog over the last 30 years".
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Also in 2011, Adam Wakeman joined with original Whitesnake members Micky Moody and Neil Murray, Laurie Wisefield, Harry James, and Chris Ousey to form the band Snakecharmer.
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In November 2012, Adam Wakeman joined the Strawbs, a band which previously featured his brother and father, for their tour of that year, he toured with them again in 2015.
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In 2020, Adam Wakeman joined Martin Barre for his Latin-American tour.
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In February 2020, Adam Wakeman released an album under the moniker Jazz Sabbath, playing songs by Black Sabbath in a jazz style.
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Adam Wakeman stepped in to cover for Don Airey with Deep Purple in Bangalore, India December 19th 2023 after Don fell ill a week before.