He has appeared with such luminaries as Jose Feliciano, Jesse Colin Young, David Foster, Marc Cohn, Kenny G, Alex De Grassi, Montreaux and many others. John Nilsen is a pianist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and one of the Pacific Northwest’s most successful performance and recording artists.  Nilsen's label, Magic Wing, has a catalog of twenty titles, all distributed internationally. John Nilsen’s record sales far exceed a million copies, a rare accomplishment in the music industry.  240 of his compositions and arrangements receive performance and mechanical royalties.