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Profile: Musician Bill Deasy

(KDKA) Bill Deasy is a local musician who wrote the song, "Your Home," featured on KDKA-TV. Deasy says the song is "the story of someone leaving then being drawn back– called by the rivers."

ARTIST PROFILE: BILL DEASY

What's Your Hometown?:

I grew up in Penn Hills but have also lived in Oakmont and Shady Side, which is where I currently reside.


Does Your Family Still Live Here?

My mom and dad moved out of my childhood Penn Hills home a few years back and live in Oakmont now. All my siblings are still in town as well.


Where Did You Go To School?

I went to Saint Bartholomew's grade school (our house was right beside it…literally a one-minute walk,) Central Catholic High School in Oakland and Grove City College in Grove City (obviously.)

Brief aside to the grade school thing: I met my wife there when we were in the fourth grade. She inspired my very first song – "She's a Big Jerk" which I still dust off from time to time. We lost touch through our formative years but reconnected in our twenties.


Given your success, you could have moved away to Nashville or anywhere else. What kept you here?

Pittsburgh inspires me. Plain and simple.

I'm always traveling away to tour or write with people in other cities and each time I return I think something along the lines of, "Man, I love this town." I love the rivers and the view of the city through the tunnels and the kind people and the cool neighborhoods. All of that stuff is conducive to being an artist and staying inspired.


What do you think is our area's best kept secret?

Maybe it's the cultural district. In just a few city blocks there are all of those amazing theaters. It might also be the fact that we're not a "steel town" any longer – that we've diversified.


Where did you get inspiration for "Your Home?"

When I was first approached by KDKA to write a song with a "home" theme I wasn't sure exactly what I'd come up with. I reflected upon people I know and on my own experience and decided to write a story which I find to be pretty common around here: the story of some one leaving then being drawn back – called by the rivers.


* You're planning to re-release "The Miles," to add this new track. How does "Your Home" fit in with the rest of the songs on the CD?

"Your Home" is actually a perfect bookend for the title track on my new record. The chorus on that song goes:


"This road I'm on is my own to travel.

Sometimes paved and sometimes gravel.
Up ahead it waits and winds who knows how it unravels –
The miles."

And the character in "Your Home" has discovered that his or her road was, in fact, leading back to Pittsburgh – which isn't a bad place at all for your road to end!

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