Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin Shane DeGrawis an American musician and singer-songwriter. He rose to fame with the single "I Don't Want to Be" from his debut album Chariot which became the theme song for the television drama series One Tree Hill. Other singles from the album included notably "Chariot" and "Follow Through". His second self-titled album was released in 2008 and included the top-twenty single "In Love with a Girl"...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth4 February 1977
CityFallsburg, NY
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From being around live audiences in a lot of cities, I've more developed a desire to hear them react, more than I used to,
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As I've played for a wider variety of audiences, I've become more concerned with showing them a good time, ... I hope that when they leave, they feel like they got something different, and that it was worth it to come out on their time off, when they have to work the whole rest of the week. Now that I'm on the road all the time, time off is more valuable to me. So I figure I'd better make it worth their time.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.
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I like to do the splits onstage
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There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
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I don't take my clothes off in my videos
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I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.
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Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on
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My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it
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When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.