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I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley.…

— Jake Owen

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to…

— Jana Kramer

I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.

— Lauren Daigle

My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to…

— Wynton Marsalis

My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened…

— Talib Kweli

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul…

— Clare Bowen

I started at such a young age learning every style of music, the country and the bluegrass and the western swing and the rock…

— John 5

When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney…

— Gabriella Wilson

My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge Bruce Springsteen…

— Lucy Dacus

I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist…

— Gerard Cox

My mom and grandfather are my first teachers of music. Those experiences and the process of exploring music as a discipline through them and…

— Guillermo E. Brown