Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Cedric Bixler-Zavala (b. 4 November 1974, Redwood City, San Mateo, California) is an American vocalist, songwriter, and drummer. He is best known as Mike Watt in 2011, also singing and playing guitar with his band Zavalaz (since 2013). He is a technically proficient and versatile tenor vocalist, an expert at controlled falsetto and head voice singing, with the working range G♯2–D6 that extends as low as E2 and as high as C7.

He was born in a family of Mexican origins, the son of Dennis Jose Bixler (b. 1945) and Rosie Maria Zavala; even though Cedric's parents were bilingual, he never learned proper Spanish. The Bixler family soon relocated to El Paso, Texas, where Cedric first met Sarah Reiser, both 17, died in a car accident in 1997.

In 1998, Cedric launched his first t project with Tremulant EP (GSL54).