Troy Duffy
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And it's your fans.
Well, the brother thing, you know.
Our folks did drama in high school and college.
Our dad is like a CPA that took ballet and stuff like that, random weird stuff.
It was just a combination.
He was doing his plies and thinking about dollar signs.
Our mom actually went to North Texas State as a vocal major.
And that's actually a really well-known music school.
And so she's a singer, and our dad, we joke, is a frustrated poet.
And so somehow or another, we ended up being songwriters and singers.
The way it started, and we've told this story many times, but it's essentially we heard, you know, we had it in the jeans, I guess.
The jean pool was there.
We heard classic rock and roll, and there was a compilation of songs from the late 50s that we sort of had high exposure to because we spent a year... Our dad at the time worked for an oil contractor that took him to Latin America, and we all moved to South America for a year.
I was, you know, six or seven.
He just... Almost like songwriting...
began to be hammered into our heads.
And Splish Splash is, to me, one that's still in my face.
Oh, you know what?