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Music runs in the family for CB30. The duo, made up of real-life brothers Christian and Brody Clementi, grew up surrounded by music. Their father, Jay Clementi, and grandfather played music together and it wasn’t long before Christian and Brody followed in their family’s footsteps. “Brody and I grew up around bands and around him having songwriters in and out of the house,” Christian says of their father, Jay, whose band The Lucky Bucks signed to Warner Records in the early 2000s. Eventually, Jay focused more on songwriting and has since co-written songs for Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker and Martina McBride. Christian, 20, started playing guitar in middle school. Early on he learned to play Justin Bieber covers while Brody, 17, would harmonize. It took a football injury for the Clementi family to realize music was in the brothers’ future. “I got a concussion one year in football and took a year off,” Christian recalls. “I was in seventh grade and our dad was like, ‘Well, we should do something productive with our time.’ We were already playing guitar and singing a little bit so he's like, ‘Let's try to write a song.’” Christian and Brody wrote a song titled “Be My Girl” with their father. Brody started singing harmony alongside Christian and CB30 was born. While Jay was writing with and producing his sons in their early years, now Christian is at the helm co-writing and working with producers Paul DiGiovanni (Jordan Davis, Adam Hambrick) and Pete Good (Brandon Ratcliff) on th