Key Sentence:
- “His thing was consistent, ‘You can’t compose a decent bluegrass tune without having your heart broke,'” Bandi.
- “Thus, I think he made me extremely upset and afterward sent Aimee my way.”
It was a little more than five years prior that Chris Bandi walked into a jam-packed Chicago bar, prepared to start his bluegrass music profession as a solitary man.
“It couldn’t have been over a month after we began playing shows,” Bandi, 30, tells PEOPLE with a giggle. “In my mind, I resembled, ‘this will be unbelievable.’ You know, I’m a youthful, single person playing music at all of these bars everywhere in the country. I will have a great time.”
And afterward, a lady named Aimee strolled in. “It was fortunate and insane,” says Bandi of meeting the lady who’d before long become his sweetheart. (They, as of late, praised five years together.) “It truly caused me to acknowledge how little the world truly is.”
After five years, however, the only thing inclining vigorously on Bandi’s heart is in that the affection for his new life never had the chance to meet one of the men he cherished the most: his granddad.
“He spent away a half year before me meeting Aimee,” Bandi says. “He was a Marine who served in the Korean War, and let me advise you; he was a man of numerous accounts. He was an immense golf player and a colossal down-home music fan. He showed me how to wager on racehorses. We had a great relationship, and he trained me a great deal about existence.”
The savage planning between losing his granddad and meeting his long-term sweetheart proceeded to fill in as the musical spine. One of Bandi’s most charming tunes, “Would Have Loved Her,” a wistful marvel of a tune that honors the pings of torment that accompany the magnificence of fate.
“His thing was consistent, ‘You can’t compose a decent down-home tune without having your heart broke,'” Bandi says. “Thus, I think he made me extremely upset and afterward sent Aimee my way.”
It’s this blend between the lovely and the horrendous that had been a thought that Bandi would bring into numerous a composing room for some time. Yet, in 2019, Bandi at long last discovered the melody’s predetermination when he collaborated with individual musician Zach Kale.
“It was the last composing meeting before Christmas break, and I said, ‘Zach, I have this thought. However, if we choose to compose it, we need to sort of burrow profound because it will be a profound melody,” says Bandi. Who has effectively made great waves inside down-home music with his hit tune “Man Now Enough?