Mike Dawes

Mike Dawes

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Alias :マイクドーズ

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# Easy Listening # Folk # Pop

Bio

Mike Dawes is an English Fingerstyle guitar player known for composing, arranging and performing multiple parts simultaneously on one instrument using unique extended and micro-techniques.His debut record with CandyRat Records gained strong critical acclaim and spawned a variety of world tours and singles, notably a viral virtuoso arrangement of "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye.The lead single on Dawes' second release ERA, an arrangement of "One" by Metallica, went viral with over 30 million hits in its first week of release.Dawes is also lead guitar player for Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues featuring heavily on multiple DVD and PBS releases, notably Spirits...Live, which debuted at #2 on the US Billboard chart.Dawes currently tours 10 months of the year and has amassed around 50 million video views online.He was voted the 'Best Acoustic Guitarist in the World right now' by MusicRadar & Total Guitar Magazine in a December 2017 readers poll.