- published: 20 Aug 2013
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Reggie Watts (born March 23, 1972) is a Brooklyn-based comedian and musician. His shows are mostly improvised and consist of stream of consciousness stand-up in various shifting personae, mixed with loop pedal-based a cappella compositions. He performs regularly on television, radio, and in live theater. His comic skills come into play in improvisational performance, as well as performance of written music.
Born in Germany as Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts, Watts is the only child of Christiane and Charles Alphonso Watts; his mother is French and his father is African-American. His father was an officer in the United States Air Force and the family lived in Germany and Spain before relocating to Great Falls, Montana, where Watts was raised and graduated from Great Falls High School. Watts also took piano and violin lessons from the age of five until he was 16.
Watts moved to Seattle at age 18 where he briefly attended the Art Institute of Seattle before eventually studying jazz at Cornish College of the Arts. He went on to play in a number of Seattle bands of wildly varying styles/genres, including Hit Explosion, Swampdweller, Action Buddy, Chiarrscuro, Clementine, Smell No Taste, Wayne Horvitz 4+1 Ensemble, Das Rut, Synthclub, Elemental, Eyvand Kang Seven Nades, Free Space, etc. He became the front man for soul, rock, and hip hop group Maktub, with whom he has recorded five albums.
Actors: Reggie Watts (actor), H. Jon Benjamin (actor), Zachary Mortensen (producer), Robert Bogue (actor), Geneva Carr (actress), Nora Zehetner (actress), Sonja O'Hara (actress), Benjamin Dickinson (actor), Benjamin Dickinson (writer), Alexia Rasmussen (actress), Odette Warder (actress), Benjamin Dickinson (director), Sasha Vitelli (miscellaneous crew), Gavin McInnes (actor), Richard Bird (actor),
Genres: Drama,