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Born in Los Angeles in 1987, Robert Francis grew up surrounded by music. His father is a classical music producer and eccentric owner of one of the largest collections of sheet music in the U.S. One of Francis’ earliest memories is his father “blasting music at full volume in his cluttered office under fluorescent lights until 4 a.m. while I was trying to sleep in the room next door. ” His mother, one of nine sisters, grew up in Mexico in a town so small that “it’s just dirt, clay huts, boarded-up buildings, and a town drunk who walks around in the beating sun with a jug of Bacardi,” Francis says. After Robert studied piano for several years, his mother encouraged her then seven-year-old son to learn guitar so he could play the traditional ranchera songs she grew up singing with her sisters. When Francis was nine, family friend Ry Cooder gifted him his first National Slide guitar. He also fell in love with Wim Wenders’ 1984 film Paris, Texas, for which Cooder composed the soundtrack. “It inspired me,” Robert remembers. “I got the idea in my head that I wanted to drop out of school and travel when I was 10 years old.”

By the time he reached eleventh grade, he decided school was not for him and left. He spent a little over a year living dangerously and upsetting all those close to him until he met a girl who would then change his life. “It was a really tumultuous romantic relationship that lasted on and off for a few years,” he says.

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