"I started playing violin when I was 4. I got super burned out [in middle school], so my violin teacher just taught me fiddle music for three years," Alexander says. "I played all these standard ...

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While its presence in pop culture and the major charts ebbs and flows ... an unknown entity in search of an anthem. Still, that violin hook would probably hit hard in any time period, and Glynne ...