Surprise" was included on Plant the Flower Seeds, a compilation by the Ypsilanti, Michigan-based record label Westside Audio Laboratories, marking his first publicly-released recording. In 1993, at the age of 14, he joined the band Slam, later to be called Reverse Polarity. He later attended the private college preparatory Greenhills School for middle school before attending the alternative Community High School from 1993 to 1997, where he continued to study piano and keyboard. by an elementary school teacher to differentiate him from his classmates Andrew Cohen and Andrew Gilchrist. He has recalled early family trips to Midnight Mass as having had an enormous impact on his love for music. At the age of 4, Wilkes-Krier began learning piano at the University of Michigan School of Music.
His younger brother, Patrick, was a golf pro and is now a golf coach in Michigan. Krier, a legal scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and co-author of the widely used Dukeminier & Krier Property casebook. In the years following its release, Wilkes-Krier has undertaken a number of other musical and non-musical ventures including television and radio work, motivational speaking, and writing.Īndrew Wilkes-Krier was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. moniker.Īfter gaining initial attention with the 2000 EP Girls Own Juice, Wilkes-Krier rose to prominence with the release of his debut studio album I Get Wet in November 2001. He performed in a number of local bands before eventually moving to New York, where he produced his first recordings under the Andrew W.K.
Raised in Michigan, Wilkes-Krier began his musical career in the mid-1990s. Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9, 1979), known professionally as Andrew W.K., is an American conceptual performance artist, rock singer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor.
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