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MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
MEET DEAN
About Dean and his music
Dean is an American-born guitarist, bandleader, producer & international artist, blending acoustic song-writer and blues-rock elements into his own style of introspective music.
He is the founder of the Ultimate Artist Academy, an online portal of courses and coaching for proficient to intermediate guitar playing songwriters. Dean began playing at the age of 6 in small towns in west-central Wisconsin, USA and first learned guitar from a Catholic nun, sister Mary Paul Marie.
career highlight
Humble Beginnings
Guitar lessons from a Catholic nun eventually led to playing “Kumbaya, My Lord” in church as a boy. He somehow survived, and later started his first band with his best friend in High School and played the “odd gig” at the local roller rink.
His touring resumé covers hundreds of shows in the upper midwest but also New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, as well as Hamburg, Berlin, Remscheid, & Osnabrück, Germany and Vienna, Austria.
His current EP, One More Lifetime was recorded by a multi-platinum & gold recording engineer, Tom Garneau.
He is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.