"Watermelon Sugar" received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance and a Brit Award for British Single of the Year. Rowland's guitar solo in the song "She," which was (according to Styles) written while they were both under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms, has been praised by Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone as "a cosmic guitar voyage." Fine Line was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2020 Brit Awards, and for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. He also did session work for the album on electric guitar, drums, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, and background vocals. Mitch Rowland playing She on the guitar in 2021.įollowing Live on Tour, Rowland co-wrote five additional songs on Styles' second album, Fine Line, including the single " Golden," which eventually peaked at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100. According to Styles' then-music director and producer Thomas Hull, Rowland had "never toured like before" so he was having to "learn on the road." In September 2017, Rowland, Styles, and producers Tyler Johnson and Thomas Hull (also known as Kid Harpoon), recorded "Watermelon Sugar" in Nashville on a day off from Live on Tour. After the album's release, he accompanied Styles as lead guitarist in his band for Harry Styles: Live on Tour. Rowland ultimately co-wrote and played guitar and percussion for nine songs on Harry Styles, including Styles' debut single, " Sign of the Times," which debuted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. According to Styles, Rowland had never been in a studio before. He contacted Rowland, who he was also rooming with at the time, about whether or not he would be interested in the gig. Ryan Nasci was the audio engineer on tracks for the album that would become Harry Styles when a session guitarist dropped out last-minute. Styles (left) and Rowland (right) playing London's O2 Arena in 2018. After leaving Lionel the Jailbird, he played in the band Total Navajo with audio engineer Ryan Nasci. After attending college at the University of Cincinnati, he played drums for the indie rock band Lionel the Jailbird. He played in the jazz band at Dublin Coffman High School. Rowland grew up 15 miles outside of Columbus, Ohio in the city of Dublin, Ohio.
Rowland, along with Styles, Johnson, and Hull, also won the Brit Award for Song of the Year for "Watermelon Sugar" at the 2021 Brit Awards. " Watermelon Sugar," a song he co-wrote with Styles, Tyler Johnson, and Thomas Hull, was nominated for and won Best Pop Solo Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021. Mitchell Alexander Rowland (born July 13, 1988) is an American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as a touring guitarist and for co-writing songs on all three of Harry Styles' solo albums.
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