David John Matthews (born January 9 1967) is a South African, now naturalized American, Grammy-winning lead vocalist and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band. He has also worked as a solo artist and with other musicians such as Josh Groban, most often with Tim Reynolds. An occasional actor, he has appeared in three feature films.
Dave is the third of four children born to John and Val Matthews. His siblings are an older brother, Peter, an older sister, Anne and a younger sister, Jane. When Dave was two years old, his family migrated to Yorktown Heights in Westchester County, New York, where his father, a physicist, went to work for IBM. In the early 1970s the family again moved, to Cambridge, England, before returning to New York — where his father died in 1977. The family moved back to South Africa in 1980.
Dave was encouraged to take piano lessons as a child before he picked up the guitar at age nine. Upon his graduation from St Stithians College high school, he faced a...
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