{"id":6385,"date":"2017-01-24T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/24\/steve-watsons-career-is-musical-medley\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:54:59","slug":"steve-watsons-career-is-musical-medley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/steve-watsons-career-is-musical-medley\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Watson&#8217;s Career is Musical Medley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Watson&#8217;s music career is studded with names like Bruce Hornsby, Dolly Parton, and noted music producer Michael Post. In the &#8217;80s, Watson spent about 10 years in LA as a studio musician playing for hit TV shows like Magnum P.I., LA Law, The A-Team, and Hill Street Blues. In 1990, he opened a music business, and has since recorded his own music, earning\u00a0a spot on\u00a0<em>Billboard&#8217;s <\/em>Contemporary Jazz\u00a0chart. But the most gratifying part of\u00a0his nearly 40-year career? In a piece by Donna Isbell Walker in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/money\/business\/being-my-own-boss\/2017\/01\/21\/steve-watsons-career-musical-medley\/96238160\/\"><em>The Greenville News<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, Watson says, &#8220;It\u2019s very satisfying to know that I\u2019ve helped a lot of people get into [the music business], and I feel confident they\u2019re going to do well in what they do.&#8221; As a faculty member at Furman University and the Fine Arts Center, and through private lessons, Watson estimates he has impacted over 2,000 students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Watson&#8217;s music career is studded with names like Bruce Hornsby, Dolly Parton, and noted music producer Michael Post. In the &#8217;80s, Watson spent about 10 years in LA as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}