Biography
Evan Call is an American-born musician, singer, and multi-instrumentalist whose work moves between bluegrass, fingerstyle guitar, metal, orchestral writing, and film scoring. Born in Lincoln, California, he did not become seriously interested in music until he was thirteen, even though his brother and sister both played violin when they were children. Growing up in a country town, he began taking bluegrass guitar lessons from local teacher John Massey, and that experience became a turning point that opened the door to a much wider musical path.
His early progress was shaped by a difficult period after he developed Occipital Neuralgia, a condition that caused constant, extreme headaches. Because the pain kept him from attending school, he continued his studies at home and sent his work to school from there. The setback also interfered with his life as a wrestler, runner, and soccer player, but it pushed him to focus intensely on music. For the next three months, he spent most of his time playing guitar until the pain had subsided enough for him to return to school, although full recovery did not come until four years later.
At sixteen, he picked up electric guitar and learned a great deal from his close friend Matt Di Giordano. That period marked his move beyond fingerstyle guitar into metal, a genre that strongly influenced his development as a musician and inspired him to begin writing his own music. From there, his interests widened further: he continued writing fingerstyle tunes and metal pieces while also exploring orchestral music, which often appears in his metal tunes, as well as video game music.
Around the same time, he became interested in singing. After singing on his own for a couple of years, he began taking classical lessons from local vocal teacher Chris Bello and also took part in a local theater production. Those experiences helped him develop as a classical and musical theater singer, and his training later expanded at Berklee into rock, jazz, Latin, and other styles. As a voice principal at Berklee, he continued broadening both his technique and his range.
His background is also shaped by a deep interest in other cultures. In addition to English, he speaks proficient Japanese and Spanish, and he plays a wide variety of instruments, including Sanshin, Ryuuteki, Hichiriki, Quena, Flauta Dulce, Ocarina, Balalaika, and Charango. Studying film scoring at Berklee allowed him to bring together everything he had learned across guitar, voice, orchestral writing, and world instruments. He currently resides in Tokyo and belonged to the music production group Elements Garden until 2016.
