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Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews (born January 9, 1967 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is the guitarist from Dave Matthews Band.

At the age of two, Matthews and his family immigrated to Westchester County, New York, where his father, a physicist, went to work for IBM. Then, in the early 1970s, he moved to Cambridge, England, before returning to New York—where his father died in 1977. The family moved back to South Africa in 1980, where Matthews went to a few different schools.

The key move for Dave Matthews was when he relocated in 1986 to Charlottesville, Virginia, where his parents had lived before he was born. Though he also logged time back in South Africa and in Amsterdam, it was in Charlottesville where Matthews—who took piano lessons as a child before picking up the guitar at age nine—became part of the local music community and hatched the idea for his own band.

Dave formed The Dave Matthews Band in early 1991 while he was tending bar in Charlottesville.

Dave and his wife Ashley have twin girls, Stella and Grace.

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