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Joe LaPree

Singer

Oct 27, 2026

2:33
So I like to go back a little bit, get a little history on how this all formed together, you as well as your bandmates.
2:43
Got you.
2:43
Yeah.
2:43
So for myself, musically, I've always been really interested in music, but I never really took any formal lessons for anything until I was, I'd say, 14 or 15.
2:55
I took opera lessons because my parents knew that I liked to sing and they had the foresight and the wherewithal to say, well, if you're going to learn to sing, you should learn to do it at the highest level, so we'll sign you up for some opera lessons.
3:06
And that was actually a really pivotal moment for me right off the jump because my instructor, Michael Ashby, who might still be, but was teaching at Community Music School in Trapp, is also a professor at Ursinus and assists with the Philadelphia Boys Choir.
3:21
He was just a prolific instructor, and I took to his instruction style right away and then also the style of music right away as well.

9 MINS LATER

12:26
the album itself?

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