Will Blunderfield

Will Blunderfield
Will Blunderfield at Robson Street in Vancouver, July 2010.
Background information
Birth name	Mark William Kent Blunderfield
Born	(1985-07-18) July 18, 1985 (age 31) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genres	World, pop, mantras
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, yoga teacher, performance artist
Instruments	Vocals, piano, synthesizer, harmonium
Years active	2009–present
Labels	Sony Music Nettwerk/Nutone Records Warner Music Group
Associated acts	Sarah McLachlan Krishna Das Bif Naked
Website	www.itunes.com/willblunderfield

Will Blunderfield (born July 18, 1985) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and yoga teacher. He is signed to Nettwerk Records/Sony Music (WMG). Blunderfield's music is influenced by his roots in New York City's musical theater scene and by spiritual hymns & mantras which he first became familiar with as a child in the British Columbia Boys Choir. He is an ambassador for lululemon athletica, Vega, and Manduka Yoga Mats.Xtra identified Blunderfield as one of the few openly gay Canadian artists to launch a career on a major label. In 2012, Blunderfield achieved mainstream fame in Japan where he has toured extensively and where Long Time Sun, the first single off the international version of his album became a radio hit.

At 17, Blunderfield moved from Vancouver, Canada to New York City to study theatre on scholarship at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy along with other graduates-cum-musicians Jason Derülo, Janelle Monáe and Jason Mraz. His original plan was to pursue a career on Broadway, but he soon changed his mind and decided to pursue music and yoga, a discipline which he was introduced to while at the school and, according to him, has the potential to change the world.

Blunderfield performs and teaches around the world at workshops, retreats and conferences. He became a yoga enthusiast in the Bikram school, but now teaches a blend of Bikram Yoga and his own invented style. In late 2010, Nettwerk Music Group CEO and yoga enthusiast Terry McBride, who had previously managed artists such as Coldplay, Avril Lavigne, and Sarah McLachlan, signed Blunderfield to the label's yoga-inspired Nutone Records alongside Donna De Lory, Wade Morissette and Krishna Das.