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Adam Wakeman | |
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 Wakeman on Ozzy Osbourne'sBlack Rain world tour 2008 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | (1974-03-11)11 March 1974 (age 51) |
| Origin | England |
| Genres | Progressive rock,pop,heavy metal,jazz |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Instruments | Keyboards, guitar |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Member of | Headspace,Jazz Sabbath |
| Formerly of | Ozzy Osbourne band,Black Sabbath,Strawbs, Snakecharmer |
| Website | adamwakeman |
Adam Wakeman (born 11 March 1974) is an English musician, known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist forOzzy Osbourne's band; he also played keyboards and guitar off-stage forBlack Sabbath.[1] Wakeman has also worked withAnnie Lennox,Travis,the Company of Snakes,Strawbs,Will Young,Victoria Beckham,Atomic Kitten,Martin Barre,Uriah Heep andDeep Purple. He created the fictional character Milton Keanes, a disillusioned jazz pianist from the 1960s and released several YouTube mockumentaries and albums under the nameJazz Sabbath, with the albumVolume 2 reaching number 6 on theBillboard Jazz Chart in 2022.
Wakeman has often collaborated with his father,Rick Wakeman, and has released albums with him. He has also released solo albumsSoliloquy,100 Years Overtime,Real World Trilogy andNeurasthenia. In 2006, he created his own band,Headspace, withDamian Wilson.
Wakeman was born into a musical family as the younger brother ofOliver Wakeman and the son of long-termYes keyboardistRick Wakeman. He started playing classical piano at the age of eight. He citesDr. John,Monty Alexander,Jordan Rudess ofDream Theater andMark Kelly ofMarillion as influences, with the solo from Marillion's "Incommunicado" one of the first he learned to play as a child.[2] By the age of seventeen he had obtained grade eight from theABRSM and had recorded the first album with his father.[3] Father and son toured extensively, the two of them sitting at grand pianos to full scale rock performances with orchestra and choir. At the age of 24, Adam won theKeyboard Magazine Best New Talent award and promptly started a session career of his own in London.[3]
In the mid-1990s, Wakeman formed Jeronimo Road withFraser Thorneycroft-Smith. An album,Live at the Orange, was released after the band broke up on the Explore Multimedia label. In 2000 and 2001, he toured with his father's old band the Strawbs.
In 2006, he put together theprogressive rock bandHeadspace, with vocalistDamian Wilson, guitarist Pete Rinaldi, bass player Lee Pomeroy and drummer Richard Brook. Their EP entitledI am... was released in 2007 to coincide with support shows atWembley Arena,Birmingham's NIA andDublin's The Point with Ozzy Osbourne. They released their debut concept albumI Am Anonymous worldwide on 22 May 2012 on theInside Out /Century Media record label.
He recorded several albums with Rick, as Wakeman with Wakeman, and he also participated on three of his father's solo albums. He also participated in Rick's tours from 1992, and he appeared in theBorder TV's 1996 broadcast and VHS presentation ofThe New Gospels from theIsle of Man,[4] theDVD from the Gran Rex, Argentina as well as 2009'sSix Wives of Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace. The 2010 release,Scream, from Ozzy Osbourne featured five songs co-written by Adam Wakeman, although an error in the liner notes means the track "I Want It More" was wrongly credited to only Osbourne andKevin Churko.[5]
With over 200 pieces of music composed for several production music libraries, Wakeman started www.theperfectmusiclibrary in 2010 representing and creating music for film, television and media. As director of the company, he has placed music across most major TV networks including the BBC, ITV and Sky.
On 2 July 2011, Wakeman started his own radio show onTotalRock radio in London along with fellow members of Headspace, where he (once a month, every first Saturday) playing "the best rock, metal and prog over the last 30 years".[3]
Also in 2011, Wakeman joined with originalWhitesnake membersMicky Moody andNeil Murray,Laurie Wisefield (Wishbone Ash),Harry James (Thunder,Magnum), and Chris Ousey (Heartland) to form the band Snakecharmer.
In November 2012, Wakeman joined the Strawbs, a band which also previously featured his brother and father, for their tour of that year, he toured with them again in 2015.
In 2020, Adam Wakeman joinedMartin Barre for his Latin-American tour.[6]
In February 2020, Wakeman released an album under the monikerJazz Sabbath, playing songs byBlack Sabbath in a jazz style. He is credited as "Milton Keanes".[7]
Adam stepped in to cover for Don Airey with Deep Purple in Bangalore, India December 19th 2023 after Don fell ill a week before. In 2025, he took part inBack to the Beginning.
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