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Early Days/Majesty
Kevin Moore was born on May 26, 1967, in Kings Park, a suburb of Long Island, New York. He started Dream Theater
learning the piano at the age of six and wrote his first song by the age of 12. As a teen, Moore played with
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two short-lived bands – Crystalbeast and Sidewinder – before joining his childhood friend and guitarist John
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Petrucci in a band called Centurion.
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After graduating high school in 1985, Moore enrolled at SUNY Fredonia in upstate Guest Appearances
New York to study classical music. Following one semester of college, Moore was
asked by Petrucci to join his new band Majesty – which later became known as
Dream Theater – with bassist John Myung. Petrucci and Myung had already
recruited fellow Long Islander Mike Portnoy to play drums during their short
enrollment at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Singer Chris Collins handled
vocal duties.

Moore played with the band during Christmas break and subsequently left college
to concentrate on the group full-time that summer, adding keyboard parts to songs
that had already been written by the band. After adding former Franke and the Knockouts member Charlie
Dominici as the band's vocalist and playing shows around New York, Dream Theater was signed by
Mechanic Records, a division of MCA, in 1988. For additional income, Moore gave private music theory
lessons out of his parents' basement.

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