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John Charles Wiltshire-Butler or John Charles Butler (born 1 April 1975) is an American-born Australian APRA and Aria-award winning singer, multi-instrumentalist musician, songwriter, record label owner and producer. He is the front man for the John Butler Trio, a roots and jam band, which formed in Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia in 1998. The John Butler Trio has recorded five studio albums including three that have reached number one on the Australian charts: ''Sunrise Over Sea'', ''Grand National'' and ''April Uprising''. His recordings and live performances have met with critical praise and have garnered awards from the Australian Performing Right Association and Australian Recording Industry Association. Butler was born in the United States and moved to Australia at an early age. He began playing the guitar at the age of sixteen. In 2002 Butler, along with several partners, formed their own record label. He is also the co-founder of a grant program that seeks to improve artistic diversity in his home country of Australia where he resides with his wife and children. ==Early life and education== John Charles Wiltshire-Butler (or John Charles Butler) was born on 1 April 1975 in Torrance, California, United States.() His Australian father with British, Greek and Bulgarian ancestry, Darryl Wiltshire-Butler, and American mother, Barbara (''née'' Butler – unrelated), divorced and Butler migrated to Western Australia with his father, brother and sister in January 1986.〔〔 He was named after his paternal grandfather, John Wiltshire-Butler, a forestry worker who died fighting a bushfire in Nannup.〔 He moved to the small town of Pinjarra when he was eleven, and he attended the local primary and secondary schools.〔〔 Butler's genealogy was investigated on an episode of the SBS Television series ''Who Do You Think You Are?'', which aired on 1 November 2009.〔 The show traced his family history from his deceased grandfather – reading war diaries – through to ancestors in Bulgaria and the events of the 1876 April Uprising.〔 Butler began playing guitar at the age of sixteen after his grandmother gave him a 1930s dobro belonging to his deceased grandfather.〔〔 In 1996, Butler attended Curtin University in Perth and enrolled in an art teaching course but abandoned his studies to pursue a career in music.〔〔 Butler was a participant in the Western Australian skateboarding scene and is recognised for his involvement with the internationally renowned "Woolstores" street spot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Butler (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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