Bruce Hornsby

==Early life and education==
Bruce Randall Hornsby was born in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]], to Robert Stanley Hornsby (1920–1998), an attorney, real-estate developer and former musician, and Lois (née Saunier), a piano player and church community liaison who had a local middle school named after her.<ref name=hitsong>{{Cite news | url=https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2015/04/how-bruce-hornsby-survived-hit-song | title=How Bruce Hornsby survived a hit song | first=Kate |last=Mossman | work=[[New Statesman]] | date=April 24, 2015 | url-access=limited}}</ref> He has two brothers, Robert Saunier "Bobby" Hornsby, a realtor with Hornsby Realty and locally known musician, and [[John Hornsby]], an engineer with whom he has collaborated in songwriting.<ref>{{cite news| title=Lois Hornsby's Activism Bears Out Her Motto| work=[[The Virginian-Pilot]]| date=July 23, 1996}}</ref> They are cousins of actor [[David Hornsby]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/370147%7C0/David-Hornsby/|title=Overview for David Hornsby|website=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=November 5, 2017}}</ref> While raised in the church of [[Christian Science]], Hornsby went to doctors and dentists as needed. He had a [[Liberalism in the United States|politically liberal]] upbringing.<ref name=hitsong/>

Hornsby graduated from James Blair High School in Williamsburg in 1973, where he played on the basketball team and was chosen by his senior class as most likely to succeed.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IikiA9FJN4cC&pg=PA119 | title=James City County | first=Sara E. | last=Lewis | publisher=Arcadia Publishing | year=2009| isbn=9780738568508 }}</ref>

He studied music at the [[University of Richmond]] for a year, at the [[Berklee College of Music]] for two semesters, and then at the [[University of Miami]], where he graduated in 1977.<ref name=Levitation>{{Cite news | url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bruce-hornsby-the-master-of-levitation-bruce-hornsby-by-mark-f-turner | title=Bruce Hornsby: The Master Of Levitation | first=MARK F. | last=TURNER | work=[[All About Jazz]] | date=October 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/um-alumnus-bruce-hornsby-remembers-his-days-as-a-hurricane-8447708 | title=UM Alumnus Bruce Hornsby Remembers His Days as a Hurricane | first=LEE | last=ZIMMERMAN | work=[[Miami New Times]] | date=May 13, 2016}}</ref>