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Mat Kearney

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 1, 1978

Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.

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There's this song called 'Brad Chester,' which is like the depths of my family. It comes from a very personal place.

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Being from Oregon, it's part of who I am.

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There's something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We're really impressionable during that period. The cement's still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season.

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Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.

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I do know great books help shape who I am and how I look at life.

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I'm really influenced by '90s hip hop. A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul were my heroes growing up.

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'Young Love' is about falling in love and dealing with your past so you can move forward. I wanted it to be a clear record.

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I love Michigan.

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I've never shaped or crafted my music for any specific group of people. Whoever connects with it is fine with me. I don't care where they come from.

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I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

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I don't know how much I'm connected to the hip-hop scene, but I definitely lend from that urgency.

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My goal is to try to avoid a genre.

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I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

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I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.

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It's silly to throw things out or label things. You know, is U2 a Christian band, or was Johnny Cash a Christian country singer? I don't know, but they're pretty open about their faith.

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For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the 'Law & Order' TNT promo spot, he thought, 'Wow, my son has made it.'

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When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain.

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I'm a '90s music kid.

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Growing up in Eugene, Oregon, there was everything from The Notorious B.I.G. to Weezer playing in my car.

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