Harry Waters
Harry William Waters (born 16 November 1976) is a British piano and Hammond organ player, associated with progressive rock and jazz.
Background
Waters is the son of former Pink Floyd bass player and lyricist Roger Waters and his second wife Lady Carolyne Christie, the niece of the 3rd Marquess of Zetland.
Musical career
Waters is heard at the age of 2 in the original recording of "Goodbye Blue Sky" on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall. The song opens with him saying "Look, mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky" before the music starts.
Waters has played on tour with his father since 2002, replacing keyboardist Jon Carin on the In the Flesh tour, and later playing alongside Carin since the Dark Side of the Moon Live tour in 2006.
In 2004 he toured with Marianne Faithfull and the Ozric Tentacles. He is a fan of Phish and The Grateful Dead and has played in several jam band cover bands.
Waters is also a jazz musician who has teamed with the likes of Ian Ritchie (saxophone player for Roger Waters), forming the Harry Waters Quartet. Some demos of his jazz work are available to download from Waters's official website.
Harry Waters, Jr.
Harry Waters, Jr. is an American stage and film actor. He created the role of Belize in the first production of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes in 1991. He is best known for his portrayal of Marvin Berry in Back to the Future (1985), which earned him a gold record for his rendition of "Earth Angel."
Career
Born in Denver, Waters is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin. He worked as an actor in New York City on and off Broadway for more than a decade as well as at theatres around the country. Venues include the Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, and the San Jose Repertory Theatre.
He was a member of the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop in Harlem, which has developed the work of new, African American playwrights, directors, designers, and actors since 1973.
He is working in collaboration with novelist/playwright Jewelle Gomez on a play about James Baldwin, titled "Waiting for Giovanni" and scheduled for the 2011-12 (San Francisco) New Conservatory Theater season. The project's development is being sponsored by Intersection for the Arts.
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