Editing CEvin Key (section)

==Early life==
Key was raised in [[Vancouver]] in what he considered a dysfunctional family.<ref name=Terrorizer /> Due to an alcohol problem their father developed following his service in [[World War II]], he and his siblings, an older brother and younger sister, had to learn to fend for themselves at a young age. His mother, who he considered "glammy", often put makeup on him and was untroubled with his use of [[marijuana]]. His father initially disapproved of his behavior, but changed his attitude when Key began dyeing his hair at the age of 17 and would later come to fully support his career as a musician.<ref name="WeirdEnergy">{{cite journal |title=Weird Energy: An Interview with cEvin Key |journal=Sonic Envelope |publisher=Litany|date=1996 |url=https://www.waste.org/~skumm/weird.html |access-date=February 19, 2019}}</ref> Key would often turn to music as a way to escape his home life and the difficulties of high school, and he soon found himself learning to use drums and synthesizers.<ref name=Terrorizer />

<blockquote>I had a weird and very dysfunctional family. There's no training for dysfunction ... Luckily my family had a piano and an organ that had one of those weird drum machines in it, and I sort of had the luck to be able to have these things around me, to take out frustrations on.<ref name=Terrorizer /></blockquote>

In 1978, his parents sent him to live in [[Japan]] with a Japanese family, an experience that he considered valuable to his development as an individual. He was required to learn Japanese as his surrogate family, who treated him as a son, could not speak English. He said of his experience: "When you are that age, a whole new culture is a major upheaval. But for the better". He had been planning to live in Japan and was offered a job at a [[Tokyo]] radio station as an interviewer when he received an invite from Gary Smith to join [[Images in Vogue]].<ref name="NewEmpire">{{cite journal |last1=Radish |first1=Diakon |title=Cevin Key: Music for Cats and Video Games (1997) |url=http://litany.net/interviews/newempire.html |journal=New Empire |publisher=Litany |access-date=January 31, 2019}}</ref>