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Daniel Adam Smith

Daniel Adam Smith is an Austrian musician and performance artist.

Daniel Adam Smith (formerly, Daniel Molksmith) was born in 1967 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Gerald and Marie Smith, both retired employees of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is survived by both of his parents and by his sister, Rachel Smith. Smith grew up attending Pennsylvania public schools; in 1986, he was graduated from the Central Dauphin High School of Colonial Park, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg.

Youth and Adolescence

From all practical accounts, Smith was a popular and well-liked individual growing up in the late 1970's and early-to-mid 1980's in Pennsylvania. Blessed with a certain gregariousness, a genial, handsome demeanor, and by a dotting (if not downright obsessive mother), Smith's childhood was happy and rarely lonely. He was athletic although not famously so at his high school, playing American football, and occasionally getting involved in schoolyard brawls. He was marked by a certain boyish confidence which has apparently never abandoned him. Sometime in the very early 1980's he began playing guitar and purchased his first instrument, a cheaply-made Ibanez electric guitar with tremolo, later allegedly stolen by one of his first music teachers, the jazz guitarist Dick Kirshner.