Watson was a terrifyingly gifted child, born in Ballymena County, Antrim, Northern Ireland, into a large close-knit family, and like all his sisters and brothers was encouraged from a very early age.
Young George Alfred took to music as natural as one’s first breath, blessed with long fingers and dexterity for string instruments, a gifted ear for music with a natural pitch & rhythm, it is said that he plays so many instruments it is hard to tell which is his favourite.
Mostly self-taught, he was a fine athlete, writes interesting poetry, sketching, beach driftwood art, studying different languages, a formidable chess player, and a keen bonsai gardener, this shy private composter, and multi-instrumentalist, performer, researcher, teacher and administrator, has now an extremely varied back ground in all forms of music.
Watson moved to New Zealand at age 15 and continued to make music and learn more instruments and compose, eventually worked with many top New Zealand artists.
He has sung in all the big city town hall’s throughout New Zealand, toured Australia ,settled in Perth, Western Australia. He has had a few original songs recorded by ABC (Autralian Broadcasting Corporation). Watson then moved back to Ireland for a tour, then England and Scotland and signed a publishing contract with Chapel Music in London.
George then moved back to New Zealand to support a very successful nation-wide Joan Armatrading tour, and decided to stay for a while and tour himself. A very serious road accident on the way to a recording session put a stop to that, then went into semi retirement from the live music scene, but still keep active composting instrumentals and songs and instrumentals, was encouraged back once again to live music to form the fabulous Kiwis, with D. R. Ward creating a Celtic - Kiwi type sounds with lots of space,
George has been described as a Maestro executive musician.
Keep and eye out for the website www.purekiwimusic.com
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