Willie Nile

USA

Born: 06 May 2011

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Pop/Rock, Country

Styles: Rock & Roll/Roots, Roots Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, New Wave, Rock & Roll, Americana, Alt-Country, Alternative Country

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Born and raised in Buffalo, singer/songwriter Willie Nile came from a musical family -- his grandfather was a vaudeville pianist who played with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Eddie Cantor, and his uncles played boogie-woogie. Nile's older brothers, meanwhile, brought home the music of Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and Fats Domino, all of whom he heard from the time he was three or four years old. Nile himself began playing piano at age eight and took classical music lessons until he was a teenager, when he taught himself his f...

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