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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.
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.
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.
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...
Aug 2, 2018 · For this edition, we interview the composer behind the sinister opening theme music to Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and member of vocal ensemble DeVotchKa, Nick Urata.
Nick Urata, BMI award winning composer and songwriter, is most notably known as the front man and founder of the internationally acclaimed band DeVotchKa – who earned a Grammy nomination for their soundtrack Little Miss Sunshine: the Sundance hit which garnered four Academy Award nominations.
Feb 15, 2023 · During their conversation, Urata talks to Mile High Stash about his career as a Hollywood film and TV composer and living “a double life,” where fans in Colorado know him from DeVotchKa while Hollywood folks sometimes don’t even know he’s in a band.
After his Chicago-based alt-country band failed to gain a following, Nick Urata set for the Denver-Boulder area in 1997 and formed Devotchka (from the Nadsat vocabulary of A Clockwork Orange, meaning “young woman”), braiding a sound that was haunting, sweeping, ecstatic and romantic.
Nick Urata Founder and frontman of DeVotchKa Film composer @nickurata.
Mar 16, 2011 · Shrewd Mexicali-influenced gypsy punks, DeVotchKa, came to the fore in the year 2000 when native New Yorker, Nick Urata, a soon-to-be pedigreed Chicago musician, left the cold Midwest confines to link up with fellow Chi-town deserter, ex-bassist Jon Ellison to form an early version of his exotic band in Denver.
