
If you’re looking for a history of R&B from the 1970s onward, you don’t have to look much further than the discography for Nathan Watts. The Detroit-born bass player has lent his magic touch to everyone from Michael Jackson and his famous brothers to the Pointer Sisters, Diana Ross, Gladys Night and the Pips, the Spinners, the Temptations, and countless others.
But it’s as Stevie Wonder’s longtime sideman that Watts has earned the lion’s share of his well-deserved acclaim. Now in his fourth decade as the powerful rhythmic foundation of Wonder’s singular sound and in his 12th year as Wonder’s music director, Watts has come a long way from the rough and tumble Detroit neighborhood where he was born in 1954.





Bass Musician Magazine / Feb 2011
Robert Luther-Smith
1 year ago
Well, Nathan, I must be the first to start a conversation: great bass playing and I’m a Stevie Wonder person anyway, so I’m biased!!
And from reading this page I learnt about Bob Babbit’s bass solo on Dennis Coffey’s “Scorpio” !!
John B. Donnelly
6 months ago
You’re unique bass is simply “Wonderful”!..and i met you in Dublin 1984, at the R.D.S. Simmonscourt./It would be really something else to have you’re autograph!..(and Stevie’s too)!!..but one can only dream i guess. …Love and Peace to you Nathan,..and Stevie too….John B.