Darren Watson on SoundBetter

I'm an award-winning and multiple NZ Music Award nominated vocalist with over thirty years live and recording experience at the very top level. I specialise in authentic, blues, soul, folk, and rock vocals.

I'm a vastly experienced and multi award-winning blues, soul, folk, and rock performer from New Zealand. I can give you characterful vocal performances that will give your tracks exactly that authentic feel you're after.

My home studio is well set-up and acoustically treated for recording. I have the following microphone options: Audio Technica AT4047MP, Warm Audio WA-47 (Neumann U47 adjacent condensor), input via UAD Apollo Twin, (or Twinfinity 710 preamp and Warm Audio WA76 compressor if you prefer all analog in).

I have been singing professionally in New Zealand since 1985. In that time I have been nominated for five RIANZ NZ Music Awards (that's the NZ 'Grammy'), including for Most Promising Male Vocalist and Top Male Vocalist. I've had multiple charting singles and albums from 1988 up to and including my latest 'Getting Sober For The End Of The World' which debuted at #20 on the mainstream NZ Music Chart in October 2020 and was nominated for Best Folk Album at the 2021 Aotearoa (NZ) Music Awards.

I've sung on a huge range of advertising jingles, and movie soundtracks from local clients all the way up to Australasian-wide campaigns for multi-national corporations.

PLEASE NOTE: This rate is for (non-credit) demos/pitches or amateur/semi-pro self-releases. Custom deal for more professional releases available - just ask.

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