Howard Hewett

City Winery Nashville Presents Howard Hewett live on January 12th at 7:30pm

With his silky smooth, straight-from-the-heart soulful style, Howard Hewett is gifted with one of the most instantly recognizable voices in contemporary music. A writer for Rolling Stone magazine once described him as “the premier vocalist in the post-Marvin Gaye era of romantic pop.”

He began his career as a pre-teen singing gospel music in Akron, Ohio with his older sisters as the lead singer of The Hewett Singers. Hewett’s Mother, Charlena Hewett-Brown, was a major Gospel Promoter in the Akron-Canton area. Nepotism was alive and well in Hewett’s family, so once the group was formed they would open for all the shows his mother promoted, which included performing with Gospel greats such as the Pilgrim Jubilees, James Cleveland, Albertina Walker, and the Caravans, Bill Moss and The Celestials, and on and on! At 15, Hewett moved into the R&B field, forming local groups around the Akron area and ending up with a 7 piece funk band called LYFE! Band and Show! He stayed with the band through High School, then set his sights on Los Angeles, CA., finally relocating there in 1976.