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Jay DeMarcus

American Musician

Born: Apr 26, 1971

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When you sit there, and you sing the chorus - and then you look at each other, and everybody has the hair standing up on their arms - then everybody knows you've stumbled onto something. Jay DeMarcus

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Are there people's music that I don't like? Sure, there are. Jay DeMarcus

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My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I'm so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I'm grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it's just part of who I am. Jay DeMarcus

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It's no secret that anybody who knows the music business knows that the numbers are substantially different in Christian music than they are in country music. Jay DeMarcus

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I want to be a part of bringing more visibility to the Christian music genre and give it some platforms that it may not have had before. I feel like, as blessed as we've been with Rascal Flatts, I might be able, through some of my own connections and avenues, to give them some visibility in arenas they've never had before. Jay DeMarcus

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I am living proof - and I know this for a fact - that you can find encouragement and strength through the message that's in Christian music, because I've lived it. Jay DeMarcus

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It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen. Jay DeMarcus

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I feel like we were so naive when we first got started, we didn't even know we'd be around for two years, given how tough it was when we were first starting out. Jay DeMarcus

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A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary pop music. Jay DeMarcus

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With a band like Shenandoah, you don't want to take things and deconstruct them to a point where you don't recognize them. Jay DeMarcus

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I was at a Dolly Parton concert when I was about 9 years old. I saw her at the Ohio State Fair, and it was my first real concert that I'd been to. I saw that crowd and how they reacted and how great of a performer she was and the band. Just the energy of the whole thing collectively really captured me. Jay DeMarcus

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I love my time with my kids. Jay DeMarcus

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I don't know that I could pick a better place to raise a family than Nashville. Jay DeMarcus

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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people. Jay DeMarcus

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That's what we all hope and dream to do, when we stand in front of the mirror with our Goody comb and sing into it, is to have a bunch of songs that have touched people so much that they want to hear 'em every night. Jay DeMarcus

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I remember when 'I'm Moving On' came out, and we got the response we did, I thought, 'Man, this could be for real.' That was the first time it dawned on me what we had. Jay DeMarcus

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My faith and my beliefs sustain me through all of the craziness that this life brings. Jay DeMarcus

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My mother and father are big musical heroes of mine. I think it was because it was the first memories that I have of actually hearing music and falling in love with it and wanting to be a part of it in some way. Jay DeMarcus

It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more. Jay DeMarcus

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I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did. Jay DeMarcus

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Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired. Jay DeMarcus

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