Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, West Coast singer/songwriter and keyboardist
Will Champlin grew up in a musical family and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. When his family relocated out East, he would spend his breaks in Nashville, where he honed his songwriting chops and immersed himself in the local music scene, even contributing a song to
Heather Hadley's Grammy-winning
Audience of One LP.
Champlin eventually moved back to Los Angeles, where he contributed piano to
Michael Jackson's last album, toured with the likes of
Chicago,
Glen Frey, Max Weinberg, and
Billy Ray Cyrus, embarked on a tour in the Middle East to entertain the troops, and became a father. In 2013 he auditioned for season five of The Voice, where he chose
Adam Levine as his mentor, and made it to the season finale. ~ James Christopher Monger