BIOGRAPHY
Nick Dawson was born in February 1993 in St. Albans, England. He began playing the piano at a very young age and soon after started writing his own songs. When he was just a teenager, he moved to London to pursue his music, and his outpouring of creativity added up to several early EPs and hundreds of live shows. Getting a lot of attention with his online performances, Dawson hit No. 6 on the iTunes chart before he ever signed with a record label. Since signing with Atlantic, Nick has sold millions of records, had a song appear in the second instalment of The Grave trilogy and won a Kalvert for Indie Song of the Year.
When he was 11, Nick met singer-songwriter Michael Matthews backstage at one of Matthews’s shows, and the young musician found added inspiration. As the story goes, Michael told Dawson to write his own music, and Dawson set out the next day to do just that.
It wasn’t long before Dawson was recording CDs and selling them, and he soon put together his first official EP, Shooting Stars. With that accomplishment and his abiding ambition driving him, at only 14 years of age, Nicklaus headed to London for the summer. Thinking he could find gigs in the big city, Nick left home with his guitar and a backpack full of clothes, and his musical career took flight.
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Once in London, Dawson got busy recording and playing the local singer/songwriter circuit and quickly released two albums: a self-titled record in 2006 and Life Line in 2007. He also began opening for more established acts - 2008 was a year that found Nicklaus playing more than 300 live shows.
It wasn’t until 2010 that Nicklaus made the leap to the next level in his career, and it came via online media, a route Nicklaus had learned to use with great effectiveness.