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David John Matthews (born January 9, 1967) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and political activist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist for the Dave Matthews Band (DMB). Matthews was born in Johannesburg, and moved frequently between South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States while growing up. Matthews started playing acoustic guitar at the age of nine. From 1991 to 2003, Matthews predominantly focused on songwriting and performing with the Dave Matthews Band, which he started in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991. He also has done various solo performances and produced other records. During the period from 2000 to 2010, his band sold more tickets and earned more money than any other act in North America. The band's 2012 album Away from the World made them the only group to have six consecutive studio albums debut at number one on the Billboard charts. This record was extended to seven consecutive number one albums with the 2018 release, Come Tomorrow. In addition to music, Matthews has had multiple acting roles. He has also won two Grammy Awards: one with the Dave Matthews Band in 1997 for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group ("So Much to Say") and one in 2004 for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ("Gravedigger") from his solo album. Early life David John Matthews was born on January 9, 1967 in Johannesburg, the third of four children of John and Val Matthews. At age two, Matthews moved with his family to Yorktown Heights, New York, where his father, a physicist, started working for IBM. In 1974, the Matthews family moved to Cambridge, England, for a year, then returned to New York, where his father died from lung cancer in 1977 when Matthews was ten years old. At some point, while residing in New York, Matthews attended his first concert, when his mother took him to a performance by Pete Seeger. The family returned to Johannesburg in 1977. Matthews naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1980. Upon Matthews's graduation from secondary school in 1985, he was faced with conscription into the South African military just as civil disobedience to the practice was becoming widespread. As a Quaker (and consequently pacifist), Matthews left South Africa to avoid service. Matthews moved to New York in 1986 where he worked for IBM for a short time, then joined his mother that same year in Charlottesville, Virginia, a town Matthews's family had lived in before he was born. In Charlottesville, he became part of the local music community, rehearsing in a warehouse owned by Roulhac Toledano. Although Matthews had started playing the guitar at age nine, it was only in Charlottesville that he started performing publicly. Matthews met local star (and future collaborator) Tim Reynolds through mutual friend, Nic Cappon. In time, Reynolds had Matthews join him on stage, and Matthews was persuaded to record some of his own songs. This led to his first professional musical gig at a modern dance performance by the Miki Liszt Dance Company, based at McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, singing "Meaningful Love", composed by John D'earth and Dawn Thompson. In 1991, he hatched the idea to form his own band. Before recording his first demo, Matthews bartended at Miller's in Charlottesville. Formation of Dave Matthews Band After writing his first few songs, including "I'll Back You Up", "The Song That Jane Likes" and "Recently", Matthews formed Dave Matthews Band in early 1991 with LeRoi Moore, Carter Beauford, Stefan Lessard, Peter Griesar (who left the band in 1993), and Boyd Tinsley while working at Miller's as a bartender. The band's first show was on March 14, 1991, as part of a benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance at Trax Nightclub in Charlottesville, Virginia. Matthews's older sister Anne, who lived in South Africa, was murdered by her husband in early 1994. Her husband then died by suicide on or around January 27 of that year. The event had a profound effect on Matthews's outlook on life and was referenced in a few of his songs. On January 29, 1994, he performed with Tim Reynolds at the Wetlands in New York, where he dedicated that performance "to her [Anne's] memory". Dave Matthews Band's Under the Table and Dreaming, released later that year, was dedicated to her. Anne Matthews was survived by her two children, and they traveled to the United States following her death. Dave and his younger sister Jane (after whom the Dave Matthews Band song "The Song That Jane Likes" is named) took responsibility for the children's upbringing. Other musical work Matthews focused primarily on songwriting and performances with Dave Matthews Band from 1990 to 2003. The band's sound blends acoustic guitar, bass, saxophone, drums and violin. In 1994, DMB signed with RCA Records. Since that period, he has occasionally ventured outside the band in various solo performances and records. Matthews sang on the track "Sing Along" on Blue Man Group's second album The Complex in 2003. Later that year he released the solo album Some Devil, which went platinum; its single "Gravedigger" won a Grammy Award in 2004. Dave Matthews drew motivation for this song from the long-running Monster Jam celebrity Grave Digger. To support the album, Matthews toured with a group of musicians (many of whom performed on "Some Devil") under the name Dave Matthews & Friends. Dave often collaborates with banjoist Béla Fleck. Fleck is the frontman and namesake of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones; Matthews appears as guest vocalist with the band on their 1998 release, Left of Cool. Both Fleck and the Flecktones' bassist Victor Wooten have made numerous live appearances and in studio with the Dave Matthews Band. Wooten soloed in the second part of the Daniel Lanois song "The Maker", and also in "#41" on the 1998 live album Live in Chicago. The Flecktones also opened for DMB on several tours. Matthews performed a duet with Emmylou Harris on "My Antonia" on her 2000 album Red Dirt Girl. They also appeared together on the musical television show CMT Crossroads, where the two performed Matthews's "Gravedigger" and the folk song "Long Black Veil". Matthews played a cover of Neil Young's song "The Needle and the Damage Done" at the 2010 tribute MusiCares Person of the Year, honoring Young on January 29, 2010. The Dave Matthews Band opened for the Rolling Stones on their Bridges to Babylon Tour (1997–1998), and Matthews sang "Wild Horses" and "Memory Motel" with Mick Jagger. Acting Before he was known as a musician, Dave Matthews was an amateur actor, appearing onstage in several productions at Charlottesville's Offstage Theatre and Live Arts theater in the early 1990s; the role for which he is best remembered is as a used car salesman in Offstage Theatre's "Just Say No," directed by John Quinn, co-starring Kylie Suture. He played Will Coleman in the 2003 adaptation of the novel Where the Red Fern Grows. In 2005, he played in Because of Winn-Dixie as Otis, .... Discover the John Matthews popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Matthews books.
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Jack Kennedy
Chris Matthews“Filled with the vitality and spirit that made Jack Kennedy such a magical figure. Chris Matthews shows the cunning and determination beneath that magic. It’s an awesome and deligh...
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To the Moon and Back
Karen KingsburyFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a “heart tugging and emotional” story in the Baxter Family collection that will “touch readers deeply” (RT Book Revi...
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Vanessa
Wensley ClarksonThe compelling and disturbing true story of Vanessa George and the evil abuse she doled out upon the children of more than 300 families.As a nursery worker, wife and mother, she wa...
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Love Story
Karen KingsburyThe instant New York Times bestseller featuring everyone’s favorite familythe Baxtersin a deeply emotional novel “faithful fans will no doubt relish” (Publishers Weekly). When John...
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This Country
Chris MatthewsA “quintessentially American” (Policy Magazine) memoir of politics and history from Chris Matthews, New York Times bestselling author and longtime host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chr...
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Blood and Sand
Frank GardnerOn the June 6, 2004, while on assignment in Riyadh, BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright...
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The Shamanism Bible
John MatthewsThis evocative guide to Shamanism takes you on a journey from its origins in Europe, North America, Siberia and the Arctic Circle through to contemporary rituals to try today. Illu...
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Wild Awakening
Greg J. MatthewsIn this “powerful story about the healing every man needs” (John Eldredge, New York Times bestselling author), a nearfatal attack by an enraged grizzly bear leads to an unexpected ...
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Forgiving Paris
Karen KingsburyThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of lifechanging fiction brings her signature “emotional, hearttugging” (Woman’s World) prose to this wise and worldly novel of forgiveness ...
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Broken Glory
Ed Sanders & Rick VeitchBobby Kennedy's last campaignan homage to a leader who might have changed history and a reconstruction of the conspiracy to stop him, in a magisterial feat of epic investigative po...
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John Matthews v. Minnesota Tribune Company
Supreme Court of MinnesotaMaster and servant dismissal of employe sale of employer's business right of employe to severance pay. 1. The sale of its newspaper publishing business in toto to another compan...
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The Skeleton Crew
Deborah HalberSolving cold cases from the comfort of your living room…The Skeleton Crew provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes–wannabes who race to beat out l...
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The Baxters
Karen KingsburyThis warmhearted and moving prequel to the “hearttugging and emotional” (RT Book Reviews) #1 New York Times bestselling Baxter Family Series follows the family members as they face...
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Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy
Katherine Ellison & Susan M. Kim“It’s not often that the tireless work of editors, archivists and educators is treated with the same scholarly level of appreciation typically allotted to writers and poets. In the...
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In This Moment
Karen KingsburyFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes an inspiring Baxter Family novel about a beloved high school principal who starts a Bible Study to improve the lives...
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I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes“I Am Pilgrim is simply one of the best suspense novels I’ve read in a long time.” David Baldacci, #1 New York Times bestselling author“A big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.”...
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John Matthews and Beulah Matthews v. Larry
Eastern District, Division Two Missouri Court of AppealsThis is an action in which the plaintiffs, John and Beulah Matthews, sought damages from defendant insurance agent Larry Schumacher and MFA Mutual Insurance Company (MFA) for failu...
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Just Once
Karen KingsburyThe #1 New York Times bestselling author “known for her deeply heartfelt novels” (Woman’s World) writes a sweeping World War II love story about a young woman torn between two brot...
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Palace of Treason
Jason MatthewsRed Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!The thrilling sequel to Red SparrowCIA insider Jason Matthews’s compulsively readable New Yor...
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A Distant Shore
Karen KingsburyThe #1 New York Times bestselling author and “inspirational fiction superstar” (Publishers Weekly) presents this high stakes love story of danger, passion, and faith.She was a chil...
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Someone Like You
Karen KingsburySoon to be a major motion picture starring Sarah Fisher!Science raises questions only hope and faith can answer in this instant New York Times bestselling “tale of forgiveness and ...
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Nightfall Berlin
Jack Grimwood'Noteperfect, multilayered, rugged as a T34 tank. Grimwood is about to become your new favourite thriller writer' IndependentA tense, atmospheric and breathtaking thriller that dro...
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Matthew
Michael J. WilkinsThe NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each pass...
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OMG Posters
Mitch PutnamTHE ULTIMATE COLLECTION OF GIG POSTERS FROM TODAY’S TOP ROCK AND INDIE BANDSLaunched in 2007, OMGPosters.com has become one of the world’s favorite art blogs, showcasing thousands ...
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Red Sparrow
Jason MatthewsNow a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! From the New York Times bestselling author and veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews comes the electrifying mo...
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They Walk Among Us
Benjamin Fitton & Rosanna FittonA Chilling Casebook of Horrifying Hometown Crimes How well do you really know your friends?Neighbours, friends, doctors and colleagues. We see them every day. We trust them implici...
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On Liberty - with full text by John Stuart Mill and modern introduction by Rupert Matthews
Rupert MatthewsOn Liberty is undoubtedly the most influential and best known of the works by the British philosopher John Stuart Mill. And unlike many philosophical works, it is written in relati...
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A Spy in Exile
Jonathan de Shalit“Thrilling.”The Wall Street JournalFrom the author of the internationally bestselling “supremely effective, cunningly crafted” (The Providence Journal) thriller Traitor, a cerebral...
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Truly, Madly, Deeply
Karen KingsburyINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLERIn love for the first time, a son’s decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thoughtprovoking novel from the #1 New York T...
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When We Were Young
Karen KingsburyFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a classic story about second chances, featuring the beloved Baxter family and a young father who finds his whole wor...
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Traitor
Jonathan de ShalitIn the exhilarating tradition of I Am Pilgrim comes a sprawling, international highstakes thriller that pits the intelligence of one man against one of the most successful spies ev...
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Red Sparrow Trilogy eBook Boxed Set
Jason MatthewsRed Sparrow is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton!Now available in a single collection, the complete electrifying New York Times bestselling tr...
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Going the Distance
Christina JonesThe first instalment in the addictively charming Milton St John Trilogy!Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is something else altogether...'Christina Jones is one of the best ...
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Two Weeks
Karen KingsburyAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwrenching and redemptive story about a couple desperately waiting to brin...
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The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness
Laura Kemp'Witty, Warm, and Wonderful. I loved it!' Milly JohnsonSometimes all it takes to make the world a better place is a small act of kindness...'A truly wonderful and heartwarming read...