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Lawrence Watson celebrates thirty years of performing throughout the New England areas and around the world. He was the featured artist in the annual “Passion Caribe” dance and music festival in Barranquilla Columbia, South America and recently served as a judge on WGBH’s Sing That Thing! — a local TV series designed to showcase the best amateur choirs in Greater Boston and beyond.

Watson is currently a Professor of Ensembles in the Performance Division at Berklee College of Music. He has been a member of the Voice Department since 1994 and is the Resident Artist at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at the Harvard Law School.

Founder, President and Artistic Director of SaveOurSelves Productions and Consulting, Watson remains committed to the preservation and performance of African descent musical expression. The Motto of the company, “If we don’t SaveOurSelves no one else will.”

Mr. Watson has been special guest with billing on concerts with Al Green, Smokey Robinson, Oleta Adams, Little Richard, Gladys Knight, The Neville Brothers, Tata Vega, Jean Carne, and The Boston Pop Orchestra. He has also been the soloist at several events honoring three Supreme Court Justices, President Nelson Mandela, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, The Honorable Reverend Desmond Tutu, and President Barack Obama.

He holds a degree in Secondary Education and History from the New York State University (SUNY) at Oswego, graduate degree (MPS) from the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University and a certificate in Educational Management from Harvard University.