Pouring his heart out in catchy jazz-pop piano ballads, Bruce Hornsby's
sophisticated, sentimental songwriting made him the thinking man's crooner on
the late 1980s, and led to album sales of over 10 million. Born on November 23,
1954, in Williamsburg, Virginia, he started out playing Allman Brothers covers
with his elder bother at college, before teaming up with his younger sibling
John and moving to Los Angeles to work as songwriters and session musicians. He
landed a deal with RCA in 1985 with his backing band Range and found huge
success with second single "The Way It Is." Wr...