Waterson is a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 electronic

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

.

Dance career

Waterson performed all over the world as a dancer, most famously as a member of Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne OBE is a British classical and contemporary ballet and dance choreographer.-Biography:Matthew Bourne was born in Hackney, London in 1960. He went to William Fitt and Sir George Monoux School in Walthamstow, London...

's theatre company New Adventures

New Adventures

New Adventures is a British dance company, specialising in contemporary dance. Founded by the choreographer Matthew Bourne in 2002, the company developed from an earlier company Adventures in Motion Pictures, which was later dissolved....

, where he created roles in productions of Swan Lake

Swan Lake

Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...

(London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

's West End

West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

, Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 and Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

) as well Cinderella

Cinderella

"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...

(London and Los Angeles), the UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 tour of Highland Fling

Highland Fling

This dance is now performed at dance competitions and events around the world. It is no longer danced on a shield, but it is still the goal of the dancer to stay in the same spot throughout the dance. The Highland Fling is danced at almost all competition levels, from Primary to Premier. It is also...

as well as The Car Man and Play Without Words

Play Without Words

Play Without Words is a 2002 ballet by English choreographer Matthew Bourne with music by Terry Davies. The work is an adaptation of the Joseph Losey film, The Servant after the Robin Maugham novel of the same title.-External links:...

. He also worked with other leading choreographers

Choreography

Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...

 Ian Spink

Ian Spink

Ian Spink is an Australian-British choreographer.Born in Melbourne, he trained at the Australian Ballet School. After graduating in 1968, he danced and choreographed for The Australian Ballet, Australian Dance Theatre and the Dance Company of New South Wales.In 1974 he was offered a grant to tour...

, Bunty Matthais, Stephen Mear

Stephen Mear

Stephen Mear is an English dancer and choreographer best known for his award-winning work in musical theatre. In 2005, Mear and co-choreographer Matthew Bourne won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Choreography, for their work on the new West End musical Mary Poppins...

, Mark Baldwin, Janet Smith, Quinny Sacks and Aletta Collins.

Music career

In 2005 he began pursuing a parallel career in music and started making music with the record producer Andy Whitmore

Andy Whitmore

Andy Whitmore is a British Keyboard Player and Record Producer from London, UK. He works from his own studio Greystoke studios in Ealing, West London. Whitmore has produced 14 UK top-ten Hits including "Flava" by Peter Andre and "I've Got A Little Something For You" by MN8...

. Collaboration with Martin 101

Martin 101

Martin 101 is an avant-garde pop singer and artist. Born as Martin Wolfgang Herbert Meister in Vienna, Austria, on May 24, 1971. With a distinctive look, attitude and charisma Martin Meister became a well sought-after character for the media, advertising and music circuit. Growing up in Vienna, he...

 followed, then a club

Nightclub

A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

 track with Smokin' Jo and Pete Gleadhall (Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

) called "Strip Down (Nude)", and several tracks fronting Ichi Ni San with Harj and Kriss Darang.

Around this time he also co-created the London club-night 'Drama' with Terry Hart

Terry Hart

Terry Jonathan Hart is a Lieutenant Colonel and former NASA astronaut.-Education:Hart graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1964...

. The original club ran for over four years at various venues including Ministry of Sound

Ministry of Sound

Ministry of Sound London, commonly referred to as simply Ministry of Sound or MoS, is a nightclub based in London, United Kingdom and an associated record label. It was ranked fourth in the 2010 DJ Magazine top 100 clubs poll 2010. As well as the nightclub in London, there is another in Egypt and...

, The Cross, Browns, The Eve Club, as well as Space in Ibiza

Ibiza

Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...

. The club attracted a diverse, creative crowd from all over Europe, playing host to Dolce & Gabanna, Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

, Grace Jones

Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...

, Roisin Murphy

Róisín Murphy

Róisín Marie Murphy is an Irish singer-songwriter and record producer, known for her electronic style.Murphy first came to note as part of the electronic music duo Moloko. Her partner in the band was then-boyfriend Mark Brydon. After the two ended their romantic relationship, Murphy released her...

 and Julien Macdonald

Julien MacDonald

Julien Macdonald OBE is a Welsh fashion designer.Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Macdonald attended Cyfarthfa High School in Merthyr Tydfil. Macdonald was taught knitting by his mother, and soon became interested in design...

.

He appeared as "...featuring Waterson" on "I Love Linda" with Sleek Physique (Kinki Malinki), which received support from Pete Tong

Pete Tong

Peter "Pete" Tong is an English DJ who works for BBC Radio 1. He is known worldwide by fans of electronic music for hosting programmes such as Essential Mix and Essential Selection on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for...

, and included remixes from The Nightsylers, Spencer Collective and Dave Bernardi, and became a Top 10 hit

Hit single

A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...

 on most of the download charts.

His underground solo club hit, "Fa Fa Feel", is due for full international release on Oxyd/Universal with remixes from Olene Kadar, Shield & Oliver Lang.

He also currently writing and producing for the third solo album from Billie Ray Martin

Billie Ray Martin

-Career:Billie Ray Martin has had dance and pop hits in various collaborations and as a solo artist. Initially a guest singer for S'Express , she went on to work with the electronic/pop/house-music group Electribe 101. The group's only album was Electribal Memories because it disbanded...

 as well as tracks on forthcoming new album from Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul

Soul II Soul are a British group that was created in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and U.S. Top 5 hit, "Back to Life ".-Career:...

 diva, Victoria Wilson James and UK dance diva, Shena

Shena

Shèna is an English disco and nu-disco vocalist, who began her musical career when she graduated with honours from the Royal Academy of Music , with a Classical, Musical Theatre and Commercial Music Performer's Diploma and Teacher's Certificate.Shèna first performed in musicals Mamma I Want to...

Selected Singles

• "Strip Down (Nude)" - (JBO) (2006)
• "Rollercoaster" - (Devore) (2007)
• "Fa Fa Feel" - (Queer Cut) (2007)
• "I Love Linda" - (Kinki Malinki) (2008)
• "Boys On The Dancefloor" - (Queer Cut) (2009)
• "Paradise" - (Sinq Records) (2010)
• "Fa Fa Feel" - (Oxyd/Universal) (2011)
• "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" - (Axis Trax) (2011)

Other appearances

• Oxjam 2006 Festival Highlights (Oxjam/Pulse Rated) (2006)
• The Big Indie Comeback Vol 3 (Matchbox) (2007)
• Hotel Dubai - Mixed by Lisa Loud (Crazy Diamond) (2007)
• DJ Magazine Front Cover CD - Mixed by Kriss Darang & Jnr J (DJ Mag) (2007)
• CD Pool - July Club Mixes (CD Pool) (2008)
• Promo Only - Hot UK Club Tracks (promo) (2008)
• MixMag Front Cover CD - Mixed by Smokin' Jo from Space, Ibiza (MixMag) (2008)
• Kinky Ibiza Bangers - (Kinky Malinki) (2008)
• Club Tracks 11 - (V-Pressure) (2008)
• Jonny Trunk Presents... - (Trunk Records) (2008)
• Just Minimal Tech House - (Open Bar Music) (2008)
• Oxyd Records MIDEM Sampler - (Oxyd records) (2010)
• Axis Trax vs Rachel Ellektra - (Axis Trax) (2010)
• Oxyd City Volume 1 - (Oxyd City Records) (2010)

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