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William Ackerman
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Within Vinony's link graph, William Ackerman is referenced by 96 other articles, and connects out to Germany, jazz and pop music.
It sits within the topics 1949 births, 20th-century American composers and 20th-century American guitarists.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Will Ackerman Collection
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Film & TV
Palo Alto, California, USA
Known for
- Solace: A Windham Hill Collection1999
- Kenny Loggins - Outside From the Redwoods — Guitar1994
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1949-11-16
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 65,369
- Total plays
- 836,028
Tags
Will Ackerman is a guitarist and composer of acoustic-based instrumental music. He founded and ran for many years the influential new age record label Windham Hill Records. Born in West Germany, he was adopted by a couple who lived in Palo Alto, California. A self-professed poet and musician who briefly studied guitar with Robbie Basho, Ackerman grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After attending Stanford University, Ackerman dropped out to become a carpenter. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Palo Alto
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Educated at
- Northfield Mount Hermon School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Windham Hill Records
- Official website
- williamackerman.com
- Residence
- Dummerston
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- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- official blog URL
- williamackerman.com/blog
- date of birth
- 1949-11-16
- official shop URL
- williamackerman.com/shop
- social media followers
- 6720
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