CENTENNIAL, CO – SEPTEMBER 04: Denver Bronco DeMarcus Ware talks to media after practices at Dove Valley in Centennial, September 04, 2014. Ware talks about the regular-season opener against the Indianapolis Colts. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Before the Denver Bronco’s DeMarcus Ware was laying hits quarterbacks in the NFL, he was hitting notes.
As , the outside linebacker was in an R&B band in high school with a few of his friends. They called themselves Mirage, which is a great name for an R&B band, particularly one capable of a simmering slow jam like “Sometimes,” the single Ware has shared from the band’s one and only album.
According to Ware, their recording sessions were far from professional:
We tried the low-traffic bathrooms at school — spent hours putting towels up, down, around and on the floorboards, trying to find “good acoustics” (like we’d been told you were supposed to). We tried out-of-service elevators — spent hours trying to get that echo just right. Honestly, we tried every amateur trick in the book.
The article goes on to talk about music’s role in Ware’s life, from those talent show days with Mirage to his recent guitar-playing habit. (He sports a Gibson Les Paul and what appears to be an ES-335 in the photos accompanying the piece.) Read the whole thing .
Listen to DeMarcus Ware sing alto on Mirage’s “Sometimes” below.
