1. Steven John Wilson was born on 3 November 1967 and is an English musician.
65 Facts About Steven Wilson
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Steven Wilson is the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Porcupine Tree, as well as being a member of several other bands, including Blackfield, Storm Corrosion and No-Man.
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Steven Wilson is a solo artist, having released eight solo albums since his solo debut Insurgentes in 2008.
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Steven Wilson's honours include six nominations for Grammy Awards: twice with Porcupine Tree, once with his collaborative band Storm Corrosion and three times as a solo artist.
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Steven Wilson is a self-taught composer, producer, audio engineer, guitar and keyboard player, and plays other instruments as needed, including bass guitar, autoharp, hammered dulcimer and flute.
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Steven Wilson has worked with artists such as Elton John, Guns N' Roses, XTC, Opeth, Pendulum, Yes, King Crimson, Fish, Marillion, Black Sabbath, and Anathema, and has built a reputation for his work remixing classic pop and rock records into new stereo, 5.1 and Dolby Atmos versions.
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Steven Wilson said his taste in music diverged from his peers in the 1980s:.
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Around the same time that Steven Wilson was part of Altamont, he was in a progressive rock band called Karma, which played live around Hertfordshire and recorded two cassette albums, The Joke's on You and The Last Man To Laugh.
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In 1987, Steven Wilson launched the two projects that would make his name.
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The single briefly charted and, although sales were not outstanding, Steven Wilson had now gained credibility in the record industry.
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Steven Wilson began to release a series of CD singles under his own name.
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Steven Wilson has written reviews for the Mexican edition of the Rolling Stone magazine.
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Steven Wilson produced and contributed backing vocals, guitar and keyboards for Opeth on the albums Blackwater Park, Deliverance, and Damnation, contributing lyrics for one song in Damnation.
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Steven Wilson is featured on a Fovea Hex EP Allure on bass guitar.
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Steven Wilson has worked with a range of other artists, including OSI, JBK, Orphaned Land, Paatos, Theo Travis, Yoko Ono, Fish, Cipher and Anja Garbarek, by performing songwriting duties as well as performing musically.
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Steven Wilson is featured on the Pendulum album Immersion, with his vocals featuring on "The Fountain".
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Steven Wilson made a guest appearance on Dream Theater's 2007 album, Systematic Chaos on the song "Repentance", as one of several musical guests recorded apologizing to important people in their lives for wrongdoings in the past.
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Steven Wilson did an interview with German musician and composer Klaus Schulze.
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Steven Wilson has become known for his 5.1 surround sound mixes, with the 2007 Porcupine Tree album Fear of a Blank Planet nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Mix For Surround Sound" category.
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Steven Wilson has worked on several other surround sound projects, which have included remixing the Jethro Tull and King Crimson back catalogues, as well as Marillion's 1985 album Misplaced Childhood.
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Steven Wilson did the remix for In the Land of Grey and Pink by Canterbury scene band Caravan.
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Steven Wilson is responsible for the 5.1 and new stereo mixes of the 1992 XTC album Nonsuch in 2013, as well as the Gentle Giant albums The Power and the Glory and Octopus in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
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In 2018, he released Yes: The Steven Wilson Remixes, consisting of the albums The Yes Album, Fragile, Close to the Edge, the double album Tales From Topographic Oceans, and Relayer.
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Between 2003 and 2010, Steven Wilson released a series of six two-track CD singles under his own name.
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Separate from the Cover Versions series, Steven Wilson has contributed a cover version of the Cardiacs song "Stoneage Dinosaurs".
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The song was featured on Leader of the Starry Skies: A Tribute to Tim Smith, Songbook 1, which is a fundraising compilation album released in December 2010 to benefit the hospitalised Cardiacs leader Tim Smith, whom Steven Wilson has cited as a major inspiration spiritually, if not necessarily in style.
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Steven Wilson announced his first solo tour in Europe and North America to promote his solo albums.
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On 16 December 2011, Steven Wilson announced new European tour dates for the second leg of his Grace for Drowning tour, running in April and May 2012.
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Steven Wilson won the "Guiding Light" title at the Progressive Music Awards in 2012.
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On 12 December 2016, Steven Wilson began recording his fifth solo studio album with engineer Paul Stacey in London.
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On 5January 2017, Steven Wilson posted a teaser clip of himself and Ninet Tayeb recording a new song titled "Pariah".
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Steven Wilson mentioned that harmonica player Mark Feltham is going to be playing on the next record and released a clip of him contributing to a song titled "To the Bone".
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Steven Wilson embarked on major tours of the UK, Europe and North America in 2018 and 2019 to promote the album.
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On 26 May 2019, Steven Wilson confirmed on his Instagram account that the writing and recording process on his sixth studio album was underway.
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On 24 December 2019, Steven Wilson announced that his as yet untitled sixth studio album was close to completion and promised further news in early 2020.
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On 5 March 2020, Steven Wilson began a teaser campaign across his online channels, centering on modern themes of consumerism, product branding and manipulative social media.
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On 12 March 2020, Steven Wilson announced that his sixth solo album The Future Bites would be released on 12 June 2020.
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In May 2020, Steven Wilson launched "The Album Years", an audio-only podcast with his partner in No-Man, Tim Bowness.
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On 22 September 2020, Steven Wilson relaunched The Future Bites with a revised album tracklist and the release of a new single, "Eminent Sleaze", along with the release of a video produced by Crystal Spotlight.
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On 29 October 2020, Steven Wilson released a video for "King Ghost", the third single to be taken from The Future Bites.
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On 24 November 2020, Steven Wilson released "12 Things I Forgot", the fourth single from The Future Bites.
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On 22 March 2021, Steven Wilson announced that due to uncertainty surrounding live performances amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, The Future Bites Tour would be cancelled.
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Steven Wilson stated that he would now concentrate on upcoming music projects, including his seventh studio album, a conceptual work entitled The Harmony Codex planned for release in mid-2023.
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Steven Wilson revealed an autobiography, Limited Edition of One, which was published by Little, Brown and Company on 7 April 2022.
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Steven Wilson began working on his eighth studio album called The Overview in February 2024, and it was tentatively scheduled for release in early 2025.
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Steven Wilson began experimenting by recording music in his home until he had the hunch it could become someway marketable.
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When Steven Wilson signed to Delerium label, he selected what he considered the best tracks from these early tapes.
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Steven Wilson continued exploring the ambient and trance grounds and issued The Sky Moves Sideways.
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Steven Wilson started writing Porcupine Tree's next album in early 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel, alongside work on the second album for his side-project Blackfield.
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At a European show in August 2008, Steven Wilson said Porcupine Tree was beginning work on material for their next album with an eye toward a release in 2009.
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In 2010 after this tour, the band became inactive as Steven Wilson committed himself to his solo work and other members began working on their own separate projects.
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In 2001, Steven Wilson met and began to collaborate with Israeli rock musician Aviv Geffen, with whom he created the band Blackfield.
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Later that year Steven Wilson decided to take a secondary role in the band, feeling that with so much of his time and attention devoted to his solo career, there was not enough left for him to properly fill the role of co-leader of Blackfield as well.
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Steven Wilson still contributed to the band's fourth album in 2013 as singer and producer.
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Steven Wilson left the band after a short European tour in February 2014 and a final date in New York City on 1May 2014, due to his increasingly tight schedule with his solo career and upcoming projects.
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In June 2015 and June 2016, Steven Wilson was seen in recording sessions with Geffen and Alan Parsons.
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For live shows, Steven Wilson plays barefoot, a habit that goes back to his early childhood.
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Steven Wilson has injured his feet as a result: in one of his early shows, he ended up with a syringe inserted in his foot and had to get a tetanus vaccine.
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Steven Wilson prefers to keep a low profile, following the example of musicians from bands like Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Tool, but he shares snapshots of his life on Instagram.
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Steven Wilson shared the news that he married his girlfriend Rotem in September 2019, subsequently sharing the news and a wedding picture on his Instagram page.
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Steven Wilson's wife has two girls from her previous marriage.
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Steven Wilson's family has set up an Instagram account for their dog Bowie Wilson, named after David Bowie.
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Steven Wilson is a vegan and an atheist, and although fascinated by the subject of religion, he is a strong critic of organised religion.
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In 2016, Steven Wilson was named one of the 15 best progressive rock guitarists through the years by Guitar World magazine.
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Steven Wilson was ranked the seventh best prog guitarist of 2016 by a MusicRadar readers' poll.