WINGER BIO
 
Debut Release

• Winger forms in 1987.
• Debut album, Winger, is released in 1988 on Atlantic Records, and soars far past the platinum mark in the U.S. and goes gold in Japan and Canada, establishing Winger as one of the hottest new bands on the scene.
  
• Radio and MTV hits include "Madalaine", "Seventeen", "Headed For A Heartbreak" and "Hungry".
  
• The companion home video, Winger: The Videos/Volume One, sails past the RIAA gold mark.
  
• Winger tours for over a year with the likes of Bad Company, Scorpions, Cinderella, Bon Jovi, Poison, Skid Row and Tesla.
  
• Band is nominated in 1990 for an American Music Award for Best New Heavy Metal Band.

Second Release

• 1990 release of In the Heart of the Young on Atlantic Records mines more RIAA platinum in the U.S. and gold in Japan.
  
• Hit radio tracks and MTV videos include "Can't Get Enuff", "Miles Away" and "Easy Come Easy Go".
  
• Winger tours the world for 13 months playing over 230 dates with Kiss, Scorpions, ZZ Top, Extreme and Slaughter.

Third Release

• 1993 - Winger releases the critically acclaimed Pull on Atlantic Records.
  
• The track "Down Incognito" is a smash at radio.
  
• Winger tours the U.S., Japan and Canada.

Post Metal Days (1993-2000)

After the band wraps up a tour of Japan in the Fall of 1993, the members each go their separate ways to pursue individual goals.

KIP WINGER - Moves to Santa Fe, New Mexico and builds his own recording studio. Composes, arranges, performs, engineers and produces 3 solo records, This Conversation Seems Like A Dream (1997), Made by Hand (1998) and Songs From the Ocean Floor (2000), which all receive worldwide critical acclaim. Solo tours of the US, Japan and Europe follow each release. Currently scoring music for film. Currently living in Nashville, TN - Kip continues to write, produce and record. Projects include Blackwood Creek with Brother, Nate Winger and friend Peter Fletcher.