Education
He was introduced to jazz and popular music early and studied jazz at school.
artist engineer singer songwriter
He was introduced to jazz and popular music early and studied jazz at school.
He performs in various genres, including Rhythm & Blues, soul, hip-hop, and popular. Wansley started performing in church, school, and on the street. He has been performing since the early 1980s.
At 21, he formed a band called Boys Will Be Boys.
Their repertoire included covers, including INXS songs. In the early 90"s Wansley went on to become the bass player in the Seattle band The Rangehoods, taking over for Bruce Hewes.
He also was the bass player and singer for the original hard-funk band, Lifering, with David Scott Cameron on guitar, Jeff Stone on guitar, and David Nielsen on drums. He later on fronted a band called the Ghetto Monks and saw some success.
He sang hooks in recordings by Doctorate. Sane and Street Level Records for a decade.
He also took part in the summer of 2011 in the opera Porgy and Bess. graduated from Lakes High School in Lakewood, Washington. Prior to the break-out performance of "Thrift Shop", was a full-time software test engineer for companies such as Microsoft, Adapx, and Volt. Sane called him and introduced him to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to do the hook for "Thrift Shop" in 2012. has toured with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis and performed with them on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live.
He is also featured in the official music video of the song.
After the international success of the song, he is working on an European Parliament of 6 tracks of his own called Wander with the planned debut single from the European Parliament to be "Tell Maine One More Time". is planning to write a book about a series of sayings he has coined over the years, to be called The Book of. In 2015, Wansley returned to his career as a quality-assurance engineer for the software company Tableau.