My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he played in a swing band on weekends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
Both of my parents were musicians.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.