Big Blue Hearts

Big Blue Hearts may remind listeners of Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and the Everly Brothers. However, lead singer David Fisher grew up listening to his mother's collection of albums by singer-songwriters such as Carole King, James Taylor and Carly Simon. One of her friends was a DJ at an underground rock station in Baltimore where Fisher discovered Gary Numan, the Tubes, the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. At age 6 or 7, he got heavily into Kiss and decided he would grow up to be a singer. Fisher's family moved to Springfield, Va., when David was 2. By the time he was 4, his parents had divorced, and his mother had married a man she'd met in AA. Because he worked in construction, a change in seasons could mean that work would become available. Constantly moving, Fisher attended 14 different schools by the time he finished high school. In fourth grade, he was given an acoustic guitar and eventually progressed from playing