Drake White is pretty comfortable talking to people one on one or in large groups, and he credits his mom’s garage front beauty shop for helping him with that. Drake explains that when he was around six or seven or eight, “We had a garage beauty shop, and so there was always traffic in and out. And the lines would get busy, and kinda the story goes is there would be people sitting waiting on their turn and I would be out there and she would be like, ‘Well just talk to ‘em’. So, it gave me an opportunity to learn how to talk to women especially, and talk to just all kinds of people, but really learn how to hold people’s attention and kinda distract them, if you will, for a little while they sit there waited on my mom to get finished.”

Drake is putting all that garage practice to good use on stage as he opens for Zac Brown Band this summer. He’s getting a chance to expose new fans to his music, including his latest single, “Livin’ the Dream.”

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Drake White – mom cosmetology in garage :34
“So we had a little garage, early on, when I was like six, seven, eight years old. We had a garage beauty shop, and so there was always traffic in and out. And the lines would get busy, and kinda the story goes is there would be people sitting waiting on their turn and I would be out there and she would be like, ‘Well just talk to ‘em’. So, it gave me an opportunity to learn how to talk to women especially, and talk to just all kinds of people, but really learn how to hold people’s attention and kinda distract them, if you will, for a little while they sit there waited on my mom to get finished.