The passion and essence of Nathan’s music has penned him in the hearts of musical innovators, listeners, and lovers all over the world. This top 30 Billboard vocalist, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist is known best for his showmanship, unique talent, enthusiastic energy, and funk as a collaborator with many of smooth jazz top GRAMMY winning, nominated, and Billboard artists. He has crisscrossed the globe, touring with luminaries of the smooth jazz/ RnB industry like Nick Colionne, Lin Rountree, Paul Brown, Dawn Robinson (En Vogue/ Lucy Pearl), Irene Cara, Stokley (Mint Condition), and many more premier industry artists.
His 2012 release of “For All Eternity” accompanied by the heartfelt tribute to his wife, who passed away of cancer in 2010, “My Angel” has noted the true passion of what music lovers crave in what they coin as – Music From The Heart. In 2014, he collaborated with James Lloyd (Pieces of a Dream) on to release his first top 10 Billboard song “Play It Forward”. This placed Nathan on the radar of many established artists looking to make a new sound in the smooth jazz industry. His musical talents have taken him to more than 36 countries from Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Alaska, and many other parts of the world.
In 2018 Nathan released his debut album SMOOTH GROOVE, in which, 2 of his songs accomplished great success on mainstream media – “Inspiration” which made the top 30 on the Smooth Jazz Billboard charts at #22 and “Smooth Groove at #20. Currently, Nathan has completed his new album entitled, “SoulMate” which made its debut on September 4, 2019. The success of this project has already been deemed to be great with the acceptance of his new single hitting mainstream media (SIRIUS XM, iHEART Radio, etc…) entitled “Swing City” featuring the 2019 NAACP Image Award Winner – Jazmin Ghent. Swing City is currently making great achievements as a top 10 hit on the Billboard charts and Smooth Jazz Network Charts with his first #1 on the Mediabase charts.
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