Personal Life
Dan Wilson was born in Minneapolis. He attended Harvard University where he majored in visual arts (printmaking) and received the Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding artistic talent and achievement. He had a successful painting career, represented by Thomas Barry Fine Arts, with his works in numerous private and corporate collections. He set his painting aside in the late 1990s to focus on music. His brother is musician Matt Wilson of the band The Twilight Hours, whom he also played with in Trip Shakespeare.
Wilson is married to Diane Espaldon, and has two daughters - Corazon or "Coco", born in 1997, and Lily, adopted from the Philippines at age 2 in 2009.
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