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6. Huey Lewis
Before he found success with The News he was studying engineering at Cornell, but gave it all up in the name of music.
The popular American musician, songwriter, and actor was born in New York City, but was raised in California. There he attended Strawberry Point Elementary School and showed great promise. He skipped second grade. He also attended Edna Maguire Junior High School in Mill Valley, but graduated from Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, in 1967 because he had to move due to his parents’ divorce.
He proved to be a young genius when he scored astonishing 800 on the math section of his SATs. He was only 16 when he took the exam, destined to become a great expert in engineering. The test results gave him an opportunity to go for the Ivy Leagues, and he got accepted by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Having decided to hitch-hike across America, he said he learned how to play a harmonica while waiting for good Samaritans to pick him up. It was after that that he made up his mind to enter the engineering program at Cornell University.
He was an avid student and a part of the Eta Lambda Nu, but after meeting people who shared similar interest in music, the promising boy soon lost interest in his studies, and started playing in a band called Slippery Elm. In December 1969, during his junior year, he dropped out of Cornell and moved back to the San Francisco area.
Lewis wanted to continue playing music, but also had to work in landscaping, carpentry, wedding and event planning and natural foods. The famous musician now lives on a ranch near Stevensville, Montana.
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