Wyatt Ben Bernstein

The consummate underground outsider, an influential enigmatic and inspired avant-garde singer/songwriter, filmmaker and comedian, Wyatt Ben Bernstein was born on March 27, 1977 to Jerome D. Bernstein, a pharmaceutical salesman and Beatrice Hoge, a nurse. As a child, he was a voracious reader, music listener, and film fanatic, often spending a lot of time alone in his bedroom listening to old time radio shows like The Hitchiker with Orson Welles and "Sorry, Wrong Number," reading and listening to dozens of books on tape, and acting as the radio DJ of his own show, WWBS, to which he recorded episodes into a tape recorder. In grammer school, he was assigned the clarinet in music class, but was disappointed having initially wanting to be a saxophone player, however he excelled at the instrument, having made 1st chair in an all-county concert when he was 12 years old. Two years later, he would quit playing after losing interest in the instrument when he gravitated toward listening to early