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Based in Denver, Colorado, the quartet is made up of Nick Urata, who sings and plays theremin, guitar, bouzouki, piano, and trumpet; Tom Hagerman, who plays violin, accordion, and piano; Jeanie Schroder, who sings and plays sousaphone, double bass, and flute; and Shawn King, who plays percussion and trumpet.
Nick Urata is a Grammy-nominated composer who scored films like Crazy, Stupid, Love and Paddington. He is also the founder and front man of the band Devotchka, and has acted in some of his own projects.
Feb 11, 2015 · DeVotchka front man Nick Urata is becoming a Hollywood mainstay, writing the score for Paddington and several others. His band headlines a Valentine's Day show at the Fillmore Auditorium in...
Born in NY, Nick Urata is best known as founder and front man of the influential band Devotchka. In 2007, the band gained worldwide recognition and a Grammy nomination for the soundtrack of Academy Award winning film, Little Miss Sunshine.
Following the band’s 2012 tour DeVotchKa frontman Nick Urata was left feeling conflicted. On one hand, his band was as popular as ever, playing their critically-acclaimed songs from over seven albums to fans at sold- out shows around the globe, and Urata was enjoying a burgeoning career as a film score composer, with a GRAMMY nomination ...
Feb 7, 2007 · “We were on tour somewhere between Wyoming and Idaho when a friend called and said we were nominated,” says Devotchka frontman Nick Urata. “I was shocked.”
Aug 20, 2018 · Denver-based vocal quartet DeVotchKa’s songs always reach, and the space they’re reaching through could be any number of things: a desert, an empty dance hall, possibly just a quiet room. And through it all, frontman Nick Urata’s soulful voice rises above dense, taut arrangements to capture heartbreak, existential crisis, elation ...
