Kit Watkins is a founding member of the American progressive rock band Happy The Man, formed in Harrisonburg, Virginia in 1973. In the middle of 1979, the British progressive rock band Camel approached Watkins about replacing their keyboardist, Pete Bardens, and he accepted. In June 1979, Watkins traveled to England to join Camel, and the band recorded a new album, I Can See Your House From Here. Watkins left Camel at the beginning of rehearsals in 1980 for their next album, Nude, because little of what he had written for Camel was accepted for inclusion on the new album.