Matthew Robert "Matt" Wilson (born March 28, 1963)
[Minnesota, Birth Index, 1935–2002] is an American singer-songwriter best known as the frontman of the band
Trip Shakespeare
Trip Shakespeare was an American Rock music, rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota and active from the mid 1980s to early 1990s. The band included Dan Wilson (musician), Dan Wilson and John Munson, who would later go on to be f ...
.
Career
While Wilson was an English concentrator at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
, he met
John Munson
John Munson (born December 13, 1966) is an American musician who is best known as the bass player for Semisonic. He was also a member of Trip Shakespeare during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Trip Shakespeare
Matt Wilson, lead vocalist of ...
and Elaine Harris and formed the band Trip Shakespeare. After the breakup he was a drummer for a Minneapolis band called
Polara. He also produced albums for Steel Shank, Magnet, The Wonsers, and Velma.
In 1998, he released an album called ''Burnt, White and Blue'' on his own label, Planet Maker Records.
He had an online project called "Main Output" at MattWilson.com (which is now owned by a different Matt Wilson) where he posted songs in progress (like "The Follidaze of Highland Heights", "Raking Service" and "Troublemaker") and funny photo journals but eventually abandoned it.
From 2001 to 2005, Wilson and John Munson performed as
The Flops
The Flops were a collaboration of John Munson (bassist of Semisonic and Trip Shakespeare) and Matt Wilson (frontman of Trip Shakespeare).
They played several shows, mostly in Minneapolis, between 2001 and 2005. They covered material from the Tri ...
, renamed "The Twilight Hours" in 2008.
Wilson's brother
Dan Wilson later co-founded the band
Semisonic
Semisonic is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Minneapolis in 1995, consisting of Dan Wilson (musician), Dan Wilson (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), John Munson (bass, keyboards, backing vocals, guitar), and Jacob Slichter (drums, pe ...
.
Wilson has performed as Matt Wilson and His Orchestra and as a member of
The Twilight Hours
The Twilight Hours is a band formed by Matt Wilson and John Munson. Munson and Wilson also played together in Trip Shakespeare and The Flops, and Munson is also known for his work with Semisonic, The New Standards, and John Munson and the Witne ...
.
References
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1963 births
Living people
Singer-songwriters from Minnesota
Trip Shakespeare members
Harvard College alumni