Andy McKee

Andy McKee can be an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist with adept, technically skillful skills and whose taking part in details upon bluegrass, progressive rock and roll, and classical music. Though named a growing skill in the fingerstyle acoustic guitar community because the early 2000s, McKee accomplished sustained prominence in 2005 following the video for his track “Drifting” proceeded to go viral. Given birth to in 1979 in Topeka, Kansas, McKee 1st began playing acoustic guitar at age group 13. Originally affected by such virtuoso rock and progressive rock and roll functions as Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Metallica, McKee ultimately found himself attracted to the acoustic fingerstyle strategy of performers like Preston Reed, Michael Hedges, Don Ross, as well as others. Mainly self-taught, McKee gained his GED and stop high school to target full-time on acoustic guitar playing. The chance paid, and in 2001 McKee required third put in place the Country wide Fingerstyle Electric guitar Competition in Winfield, Kansas. Also in 2001, McKee released his debut single album, Nocturne. 2 yrs later, he earned initial place in the Miscellaneous Acoustic Device category of the brand new Jersey Condition Fiddling and Choosing Championships. In 2004, McKee released his second single record, Dreamcatcher, and completed in second put in place the fingerstyle competition on the Canadian Electric guitar Celebration. In 2005, McKee released his third record, Art of Movement, on Candyrat Information, featuring the tune “Drifting.” For this period, McKee’s on the web video for “Drifting” started nabbing a large number of sights on YouTube, aswell as garnering a substantial amount of up votes on the news headlines aggregator site Digg. Eventually, “Drifting” became a highlighted video on YouTube, having gathered over 49,000 sights. McKee’s viral achievement quickly pass on to his various other movies, which helped him sell his albums and propelled him to a fresh level of worldwide reputation. In 2007, operating his newfound influx of achievement, McKee released his 4th solo record, The Gates of Gnomeria. That same season, he made an appearance on vocalist Josh Groban’s vacation record Noel. In 2008, McKee teamed with fellow fingerstyle guitarist (and early impact) Don Ross for the duo record THE MATTER THAT Came from Someplace. A year afterwards, he returned using the EP Common Surface. This year 2010, McKee shipped his sixth record, Joyland, on Razor & Link. Also this year 2010, McKee guested on guitarist Lee Ritenour’s record 6 String Theory. In 2012, McKee reached a fresh level of publicity once more when he opened up for Prince on many of the renowned pop artist’s Australian tour schedules. In 2014, McKee released his second EP, Mythmaker.