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Band History | Dave Matthews | Boyd Tinsley | Carter Beauford | LeRoi Moore | Stefan Lessard
Leroi Moore was born an only child on September 7th, 1961 in Durham, North Carolina. He would be raised, however, in Charlottesville, Virginia by his parents Roxie and Albert Moore. He was attracted to music at an early age, influence by his mother who liked to play hymns on an small, old organ in the Moore house.
Leroi began playing the alto saxophone in his junior high school band and it wasn't long before he took up the tenor sax as well. In high school, he continued to play in the school band and even played football for a little while. After he graduated from high school, he went to James Madison University and studied the tenor saxophone. He started listening to some of the greats like Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, and around that time Leroi also picked up the saprano sax.
Over the next ten years, Roi played around Charolettesville and Richmond, Virginia, frequently with groups that contained John D'earth and Dawn Thompson. It was durring these gigs that Dave and LeRoi first met and bonded. At first Roi was unaware that Dave was a musician, as he thought the future band frontman was simply a bartender. Yet they often had meaningful conversations dealing with the evils of racism and bigotry. However, when Dave later revealed his musical talent to Moore, Moore agreed to help Dave make the demo that the bartender had wanted to make.
LeRoi Moore will almost always be found with a pair of sunglasses while on stage to help fight stage fright. But he uses the adrenaline from the fear, to turn his disadvantage into an advantage. Moore, who carries eleven instruments with him on tour, may not always stand out while reserved in the shadows onstage, but the accomplished saxophonist is definitely not shy with his music.
Bio written by Jim Powell
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