Ten Questions for Rob DeBoer from Four80East

1. How old were you when you first started playing piano?
My parents started me in lessons at age 4. At that point we didn’t even have a piano - I started leaning on a fold-out paper keyboard!

 2. Who was/is your biggest musical inspiration?
Johann Sebastian Bach.

3. Where do you make your home?
A small farm in the rolling hills about 90 minutes northeast of Toronto.
 
4. Do you have any pets?
Two dogs, Mabel and Otis, brother and sister. They are Doberman/Mastiff/Rottweiler/Cane Corso and they have the best life. Also four horses - Guinness, Hailey, Jack, and Soda.

5. What is the best concert/gig you have ever done?
The next one 

6. What is the best concert you have ever attended?
In recent years, I’d have to say Anderson Paak at Echo Beach in Toronto.

7. Do you have an all-time favourite song or album?
I couldn’t pick a favorite, but Billy Joel’s “The Stranger” is definitely up there!

8. What musician would you still most like to work with?
Bjork

9. If you weren't a musician what would you be?
Probably a contractor! Seems like whenever I’m not making music, I’m building or renovating something.

10. What is your favourite thing about Vancouver?
Anywhere you can get to the ocean and mountains in the same day is pretty special!

Vickie van Dyke
~Midday Host