Personal Life
Mat Devine was born on April 16, 1974 in Norwalk, Connecticut. He spent his early years in Norwalk and nearby Westport, Connecticut. Eventually his family moved to West Nyack, NY, where he attended Clarkstown High School South. In his junior year, his family moved again to Lake Forest, Illinois, where he graduated from Lake Forest High School. He enrolled in Illinois State University as an English major, and after 2 years, he transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he graduated with a BFA in Film.
He lived in Chicago until August 2010 when he moved to New York City, where he now lives. He has two sisters.
Devine’s first studio experience was in the home of director John Hughes, where Hughes’s son, John Hughes III, recorded four of Devine’s songs. Hughes and Devine went on to record several songs together at Chicago Trax and Gravity Studios with engineer Critter.
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