 WAYNE GRATZ - Born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, in June of 1954, Wayne acquired his love for music at a early age. At the age of five, Wayne moved to Reading, Pennsylvania. Inspired by his kindergarten teacher, Wayne began playing the piano at age six and studied piano into his high school years. He then began studying guitar. With the onset of cool keyboard bands such as Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, and Genesis, Wayne decided to return to the keyboards. A resident of Reading, PA, Wayne played in various rock bands. After high school, he began touring the U.S and Canada, ending up in Orlando, Florida in 1976.
Over the past 19 years, Wayne has released 7 albums of original compositions on the Narada Label and 4 albums of cover music on the Enso label. Wayne also contributed to some of the most memorable compositions on Narada's best selling collections, The Wilderness Collection, A Childhood Remembered, Piano Solos, and 2 Christmas Collection albums. He has also composed numerous albums for Hallmark. Wayne started his own label Wayne Gratz Music in 2002 and has composed and produced 5 albums to include: Sleepy Baby Suite, Christmas Remembered, Soul to Soul, Two Views, along with one of his most recent projects Light Lands and Shoreline, an album inspired by the paintings of Thomas Kinkade, “The Painter of Light”. Wayne’s music has been used for the Olympic games specialty segments, NBC television specials, and background music for numerous other television/radio advertisements, to include a Tiger Woods segment and background music for Thomas Kinkade’s new DVD. Wayne’s music is featured on Calm Radio, Music Choice, Sirius/XM Satellite radio and can also be heard on Whisperings Solo Piano Radio, WLOQ, and numerous radio stations around the world.
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