Nathan Willett is the lead guitarist, vocalist and also plays piano in his band ‘Cold War Kids’ which is an American-indie rock band from a place called Long Beach, California. His nationality is an American. He along with his other band members, like Dann Gallucci, Matt Maust, Joe Plummer and Mathew Schwartz formed this band together in 2004 in Fullerton. They started from the independent record label Monarchy Music. They started their journey when Nathan Willett, Matt Aveiro and Matt Maust regularly met in Jonnie’s apartment and played music. Maust decided the band’s name when he travelled to the Eastern Europe. The Cold War Kids was signed with Downtown Records and there, they started to work on their debut albums which was titled as ‘Robbers & Cowards’ and released on October 10, 2006 with nearly 200,000 copies. The band was able to win the heart of the critics with its blues rock sound and lyrics. In spring 2008, the band went back to Long Beach after two years of continuous worldwide tours. Nathan Willet explained their music recording processes as, ‘they used to take few days to write songs in their small practice studio and record three or four songs at a time’. The band members didn’t prefer to stay in the studio much because of which they focused more on writing rather than spending whole day and long hours in the recording studio.
Nathan Willett mentioned that all the band members came from different places and everyone is quiet different from each other and that is why the band works so well.
When Cold War Kids vocalist Nathan Willett and base guitarist Matt perform together live then, their fans literally go crazy. Willett says that two of them always had that physical thing which was weird but created a great music. He also says that Matt and he, himself head creativity, but, also, this has been one important component of the band’s chemistry for the past decade. Willett explains that the band members’ friendship has today turned out to be a constantly proper working relationship. He gets surprised himself with the long lasting bond between the band members and the band because in any band it is like probable of three years at the most as it is obviously difficult for four or more people to have same perception on any particular topic.
The band’s latest album, ‘Hold My Home’, which was released in October includes new full time members Joe Plummer and Matthew Schwartz who are on drums and on keys respectively. According to Nathan Willett, the new lineup has definitely led to a breakthrough in their approach of recording.
Nathan’s wiki is not provided with clear information so we don’t know about his age, ethnicity, height, kids and many more of his biography. He is said to be married and has a wife but her identity is not made clear. It is also rumored that he had a divorce and has been dating with his girlfriend. But we are not sure about this. But, he is not a gay.
The tall American musician and singer, Nathan Willett has an estimated net worth of $7 millions. In his 7th grade, he didn’t have any idea about what kind of music he wanted to play but he was always fond of guitars. Some of his favorite bands are The Smiths, U2, Frank Ocean, Velvet Underground and Bob Dylan. His father was religious and mother, a Christian marriage and also, family counselor. So, he was grown up in a conservative family in Southern California.
He has a huge fan following in Instagram and twitter with 1,468 followers and 304 posts in Instagram and seen frequently tweeting in twitter. His shirtless pictures are very popular among his fans.