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STYLE: “I like to play what I love, but I also want to please the crowd,” he explained. “I’ve learned most of the young kids know the old music, but the old people don’t know the young music. So if you play ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, you won’t lose. But people get bored, so you gotta throw some ’80s and ’90s into it, mix it up.”
LINEUP: Chuck DeBruyn, guitar and vocals.
FUN FACT: He used to own a bar-restaurant called Bruxelles in Nyack, N.Y.
TWO’S TAKE: He’s a man who can handle any musical situation.
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