Ben Watt (born 6 December 1962,
Barnes, London) is a British musician, DJ, and record producer, best known as one half of the duo,
Everything but the Girl.
Family
Watt is the son of British bandleader
Tommy Watt and has four half brothers and sisters. He is the youngest of the family. Watt lives with his spouse and creative partner
Tracey Thorn in
Hampstead, North London. They met at Hull University in 1981 and after 28 years as a couple, in 2009, they married at the Chelsea Registry Office. They have twin daughters, Jean and Alfie, born in 1998, and a son, Blake, born in 2001.
Recording artist
Watt began recording in 1981 on the indie label
Cherry Red - and went on to make the album
North Marine Drive, a collection of folk-jazz solo recordings in 1983. He then joined forces with vocalist
Tracey Thorn. For 18 years they wrote and recorded together - creating nine studio albums as Everything but the Girl (EBTG), signing to
Warners in 1984, and then
Virgin in 1995. These albums and many of their singles achieved UK and US chart success, the song "
Missing" reaching number two on the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100 in 1995. In the mid-nineties, the band shifted focus from alt-pop towards electronica, charting with
Walking Wounded,
Protection (with
Massive Attack),
Temperamental and other work.
DJ and remixer
Lazy Dog
In 1998, Ben Watt established the London
deep house Sunday...
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