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People US
|September 25, 2023
THE BAND NEARLY BROKE UP AT THE HEIGHT OF THEIR CAREER. WITH RENEWED PASSION, THEY'RE BACK AND CLOSER THAN EVER
COUNTRY DUO DAN + SHAY
The first time Dan Smyers heard Shay Mooney sing was in a tent fashioned from thrift-store sheets in the middle of Smyers's Nashville home-where he had no locks or heat-in December 2012. "I recorded a voice memo of him singing and labeled it 'best singer in the world," Smyers, 36, recalls of the humble house party where their band Dan + Shay came to be.

This story is from the September 25, 2023 edition of People US.
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