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Peter Joseph Yorn is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who first gained international recognition after his debut record,... Musicforthemorningafter, was released to critical acclaim in 2001. Yorn's father is a retired dentist and his mother is a former school teacher and real estate agent. His brother Rick is a major talent manager in Hollywood, while his brother Kevin is an entertainment lawyer. Yorn taught himself to play his brother Ricks' drum kit at age nine and soon learned to play the guitar. He grew up in Montville, New Jersey, where he attended Montville Township High School. In 1990, while drumming for his band in a high-school talent contest, someone suggested that he sing The Replacements' song "Talent Show". It went over well enough that a competing band requested that he sing Neil Young's "Rockin' in the Free World" with them. Yorn was encouraged enough to maintain a focus on music while attending Syracuse University where he was a major in the department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the U.S. state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania, and on the southwest by Delaware. New Jersey is the 4th least extensive, but the 11th most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 United States. New Jersey lies mostly within the sprawling... metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. It is also the third wealthiest by 2009–2010 median household income. The area was inhabited by Native Americans for more than 2,800 years, with historical tribes such as the Lenape along the coast. In the early 17th century, the Dutch and the Swedes made the first European settlements. The British later seized control of the region, naming it the Province of New Jersey. It was granted as a colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton. At this time, it was named after the largest of the British Channel Islands, Jersey, Carteret's birthplace. New Jersey was the site of several decisive battles during the American Revolutionary War.
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