Artist Profiles: William Gramling

“I'm proud to use Nord keyboards because they behave like the lovingly built, over-engineered instruments they were designed to emulate. Nord gear is a pleasure to play and it makes me sound great!” - William Gramling, keyboardist for Colbie Caillat

Gear: Nord Electro 2 73, Nord Stage EX 88

Bio:
William Gramling was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He began picking out melodies on the piano at an early age, and before long he was studying classical piano, playing in church, and drumming in the school band. All the while Will was soaking up as much music as he could get his ears on—hymns in his Southern Baptist church, country and rock ‘n roll from his grandparents, classic rock and folk from his parents’ record collection, and whatever was on the radio. Will relocated from Texas to Los Angeles in 2002 to attend the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California where he received a BA in music in 2006. During his time in school he began playing locally in LA, collaborating with several singer-songwriters. Since then Will has toured on 5 continents with Jesse McCartney and Colbie Caillat and produced a couple independent records. He has also appeared on several TV shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Live from Abbey Road, and a strange episode of All My Children.

Discography

2007 – Coco [Deluxe Edition] – Colbie Caillat – Keyboards
2009 – Breakthrough – Colbie Caillat – Keyboards