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Andrew W.K. (born Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier on May 9, 1979) is a rock musician from the United States. Andrew W.K. was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At age 4, he began learning classical piano at The University of Michigan School of Music. He attended the private college preparatory Greenhills School for middle school before attending the alternative Community High School from 1993-1997, where he studied jazz keyboards. Andrew was a big partier. During college, he spent most of his time partying with his best friends Nathan R. Ossmann and Trayc Patchin. Most of his songs were influenced by all of the parties he would attend with Nathan and Trayc. His father is Professor James E. Krier, a well-known legal scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and co-author of the widely used Dukeminier & Krier Property casebook. In 1993, when he was 13, Andrew joined the band Reverse Polarity. His first public recording, "Mr. Surprise", came out on a compilation released by the Westside Audio Laboratories label (now known as Ypsilanti Records) out of Ypsilanti, Michigan. Over the next 5 years he was in many different bands in Michigan such as Lab Lobotomy, The Pterodactyls, Music Band, Mr. Velocity Hopkins, Kathode, The Portly Boys, Kangoo, The Beast People, Stormy Rodent, a later iteration of Scheme, the Malt Lickers, Isis and Werewolves, and Sucking Coeds. In 1994 he also started a solo project titled Ancient Art of Boar, or AAB, which ended in 1998.