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Big Baby Ernie
4+ albums
NJnew jerseyHammondasbury parkasbury
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When Ernie DeLuise, a.k.a. Big Baby Ernie, was a young boy growing up on the Jersey Shore, he began playing music with a keyboard he stole...from his little sister. As Ernie recalls, she went to two lessons and quit after she got the keyboard and six free lessons for Christmas. I snuck it into my bedroom and played around with it. From that point forward, music would become the blueprint of twenty seven year-old Ernie's life path, ultimately inspiring him to persevere and not take no for an answer from both critics and audiences alike. To understand Ernie's devotion to music, one need only look to his father and grandfather. "I was born into it. My father and grandfather were both musicians", Ernie explains. The latter was a professional pianist at the age of twelve. Ernie's grandfather played in movie houses in lower Manhattan to support his mother and siblings. As a teenager, Ernie's father would tag along when he was learning to play bass, eventually becoming a working musician himself. Consequently, vinyl was omnipresent in the household when Ernie was growing up. "I would flip through my fathers records and ask him to play the ones with the cool covers, which were usually The Beatles and Stevie Wonder". Ernies initial inclination was to express the visual imagery of the music. I was always inspired to draw the lyrics of the songs, "Art was my introduction to music and I still think of it in those terms." Despite Ernie's growing talent in the visual arts, music gradual
