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The Bowery Brothers are an American and Canadian Country Pop duo consisting of fraternal twins Mick Dalla-Vee (Born June 12, 1959) and John Graham (Born June 12, 1959). Both were born in the Madonna House Orphanage in Fort Mitchell Kentucky and abandoned as orphans.

Biography
The Bowery Brothers are an American and Canadian Country Pop duo consisting of fraternal twins Mick Dalla-Vee (Born June 12, 1959) and John Graham (Born June 12, 1959). Both were born in the Madonna House Orphanage in Fort Mitchell Kentucky and abandoned as orphans.

Early life
Both twins were musical prodigies in their own rights even though they were separated at birth and both were unaware of each of the others existence until a chance DNA test revealed to each other, the others existence.

Mick Dalla-Vee, in the years from 1976 until 1980 toured with Canadian rock legends Shama. From that point forward Mick became not only a touring musician but a sought-after producer, arranger and engineer.

Over the past 40 years Mick has engineered and co-produced Randy Bachman’s critically acclaimed ‘By George’ album.

Mick also attained Gold and Platinum status for his work with Bachman & Turner (Live in New York City 2010) amongst other musical awards (3 gold awards, one independent album award)  Mick has played bass, keyboards, guitar, and the lead singer for Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman (The Guess Who, Bachman Turner Overdrive) since 2001, played upright bass at the prestigious Montreal Jazz Festival.

John Graham, in the years from 1979-1981 was the main songwriter and lead singer for one of Canada’s most notorious punk/R&B bands The Tumours. Their single Twilight Zone was a cult hit and charted in Canada, USSR, Finland and West Germany. The song was an indictment of the newly elected US President Ronald Reagan. The song was banned from US Radio stations, leading to the eventual bands demise. A follow single “It Hurts When I Think” penned by Victor Zupanc failed to chart.

The Bowery Brother Music
The music of the Bowery Brothers was first created and recorded within weeks of the 2 estranged boys reconnecting as a result of a DNA test. As fate would have it both boys now resided on the west coast of Canada. John in Victoria and Mick in Vancouver BC.

John specialized in the lyrics and the basic song structure, while Mick played all of the instruments, engineered and produced the first Bowery Brothers EP “Smell the fumes”.

Through another strange twist of fate the Bowery Brothers had a longtime personal connection with Live Nation Snr. VP Steve Herman.

Steve Herman, responsible for touring acts such as Gun’s and Roses and Bob Dylan. A tape was passed to Dylan’s management company CAA which landed in Dylan’s lap.

Ever the enigma, Dylan decided to invite the completely unknown duo, The Bowery Brothers on the 2017 leg of his Eastern European tour, affectionately known as the never ending tour.

The dates went over well and the Bowery Brothers continued on the tour in an unofficial capacity until the end of 2019 and Covid.

YO DAWG- Released Nov 1st 2022.

The onset of Covid-19 put and end to touring and saw The Bowery Brother return to the studio. Their first single “Hola Mexico” was released in Mexico on the Fona Visa label. The song reached Number 1 in the fall of 2022 on the Mexican Regional Billboard Charts.

Personal Life
Mick Dalla-Vee is married to Kelly Gillow-Munro and reside in Langford BC. Mick has a son Carman Dalla-Vicenza and Kelly has 2 daughters, Courtney Gillow-Munro and Katelyn Gillow-Munro.

John Graham lives in Victoria BC and has 2 grown daughters Kelleigh Graham and Emily Graham.