One of John Ford Coley’s earliest music memories involves an unlikely place. As a young boy, he would accompany his father on trips to the barbershop. While his father got his hair cut, Coley would use the chair’s footrest as a piano and pretended to practice. At just 6 years old, the young Coley set out on a mission to become a pianist.
During his childhood he took piano lessons and dove into the world of classical music. He studied Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach—two of his favorite composers—and many of classical music’s essential artists.
