The guys in Eli Young Band always dreamed of making it in music, but they met in college, where they were each pursuing degrees. While Mike Eli never really had a back-up plan, he says, “I’ve always had it in my head that I was gonna make this work, but I was also living in reality and understanding that it might not. So we finished our degrees.”
Mike considered getting a degree to teach music, or something in the biology field, but he says, “I have a degree in marketing and logistics and business administration, and I probably would be somewhere in the financial sector probably working at Fidelity or something,” had music not become his career.
Fortunately, Mike’s degree in marketing and business has come in handy while navigating the business side of the music business, but he says, “Had it not worked out I probably would, like I said, Fidelity would have been all over Mike Eli I guess, I don’t know.”
Eli Young Band is currently sitting in the top ten on the country songs chart, with their latest single, “Love Ain’t.”
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“I’ve always had it in my head that I was gonna make this work, but I was also living in reality and understanding that it might not. So we finished our degrees, I have a degree in marketing and logistics and business administration, and I probably would be somewhere in the financial sector probably working at Fidelity or something. But I went through some different things. I thought about teaching music at one point when I was younger and quickly realized I didn’t want to do that. And I really loved science and so then I started majoring in biology and quickly realized that if I was gonna make the music thing work that the business side of things might help as we were kind of developing the band. Had it not worked out I probably would, like I said, Fidelity would have been all over Mike Eli I guess, I don’t know.”