Karl Watson

About Karl Watson

Born and raised in the Washington DC Metropolitan area, Karl Watson is MD/DC'S newest jazz/soul instrumental artist/producer. Karl grew up in a family of musicians and singers and was playing publicly and also in church by the age 7 years old. He grew up listening to a wide variety of music but found his greatest expressions in "jazz" music. Karl started his own music production company, KAYWATT MUSIC in September of 2010 where he started working on producing his own music, and released his first urban jazz album " SOUL jOURNEY" a year later in September of 2011. After listening to more "straight ahead " jazz pianist like Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Joe Sample, to name a few, Karl got inspired to go back to UDC and is pursuing a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies. Karl loves the holiday time of year and decided to release a Christmas album in 2013 called 'A Winter Wonderland' where he is utilizing those jazz skills and "being musically free" as he says. For variety sake he spotlights the smooth voice of Afro-Blue's own Mariah "midge" Maxwell and Watergirl Music's own Denise Barclay.