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How Stephen Sanchez’s 2 Granddads Laid the Foundation for His Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Rising artist Steven Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: music has an undeniable fifties vibe. That's due to the
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  Speaker 1: influence of two important men in his life, his granddad's
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  Speaker 1: and both played a different but equally important role in
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  Speaker 1: his development as an artist. The Sacramento, California native tells
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  Speaker 1: Songwriter Universe, one of my grandfathers lived up in Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: and we drive up to see him twice a year,
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  Speaker 1: whipout a guitar and play for us and sing song.
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  Speaker 1: I got to watch how deeply music had embedded itself
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  Speaker 1: in people's lives. It could impact them on an emotional
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  Speaker 1: and physical scale. That was where Steven discovered his love
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  Speaker 1: of guitar and the power of music, and from grandfather
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  Speaker 1: to he found his vintage sound. He had. My other
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  Speaker 1: granddad had this house that sat between two barns. In
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  Speaker 1: one he had thousands of boxes of vinyl records and
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  Speaker 1: he'd sent me out to pick through them. Back in
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  Speaker 1: the day when DJs were done playing records on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: they throw them out, so he take them from the trash.
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  Speaker 1: Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole. Steven says one
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  Speaker 1: other influence got him ready music when he was about
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  Speaker 1: fourteen girls. His hit Until I Found You is out now.
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