Early Life
Music was a major part of Malloy's life from an early age. His father, Jim Malloy, is a world renowned and Grammy Award-winning recording engineer. Throughout the early 1950s through the late 1970s, Jim Malloy worked with some of the most influential artist of the time. Among the artist that Jim Malloy worked with are Elvis Presley, Sam Cook, Eddy Arnold, Frank Sinatra and Henry Mancini. Jim was known for be willing and able to record a wide variety of genres, including classical, Jazz, Orchestral, Rhythm & Blues, Country, Mariachi bands and Pop. In the early part of David's life, his father worked in recording studios around Los Angeles, CA, but at age 13 David's family moved to Nashville, TN. It was in Nashville that David would discover his passion for music. David took his first guitar lesson at age 15 and immediately knew that he wanted to write and produce music for a living.
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