Gavin DeGraw

The son of a prison guard, Gavin DeGraw got his big break when his track I Don't Want To Be was chosen as the theme song for the teen TV drama One Tree Hill. He started playing piano at the age of eight, studied at the Berklee College of Music and built up his reputation playing his well-crafted soft rock songs in New York clubs. His first major album Chariot was released in 2003, including the hit single Follow Through, helped by the novel and highly successful idea of re-recording it the following year as an acoustic album under the title Chariot (Stripped). DeGraw cemented this early breakthrough with two more albums Gavin DeGraw (2008) and the rawer sound of Free (2009) - recorded in less than two weeks with producer Camus Celli - and he found an enthusiastic audience all over the world. Another of his songs, Follow Through, was used in a TV advertisement for Carte D'Or ice cream and More Than Anyone featured in TV series What I Like About You.