Editing Duncan Sheik (section)

==Early life==
Sheik is a native of [[Montclair, New Jersey]]. Following his parents' divorce, he split time between his father's house in New Jersey and his mother's home in South Carolina.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/insidejersey/2010/03/jersey_boy_duncan_sheik.html|title=Duncan Sheik gets his Jersey on in South Orange|first=Lisa|last=Rose|date=March 8, 2010|website=nj.com}}</ref> He is the half-brother of Broadway actress Kacie Sheik.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fox|first=Sandra Diamond|date=November 18, 2015|title=Happy Birthday To Garrison's Duncan Shiek|url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/putnam/news/happy-birthday-to-garrisons-duncan-shiek/587493/|website=Putnam Daily Voice}}</ref> Sheik's [[Juilliard]]-trained grandmother introduced him to the piano, and he later took up the electric guitar. By age 12, he was playing guitar with high school students in a cover band.<ref name="latimes.com">{{cite web|last=Matsumoto|first=Jon|date=April 15, 1997|title=Waiting to Exhale : 'Barely Breathing' Singer-Songwriter Duncan Sheik, Busy Touring, Can't Wait to Get Back in the Studio|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-15-ca-48742-story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621050618/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-15-ca-48742-story.html|archive-date=21 June 2019|website=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref> After graduating from [[Phillips Academy|Phillips Academy, Andover]] in 1988,<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Jenn|date=8 April 2015|title=Duncan Sheik to roll out new material at Drury show|url=https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/duncan-sheik-to-roll-out-new-material-at-drury-show,330133|website=The Berkshire Eagle}}</ref> Sheik studied [[semiotics]] at [[Brown University]];<ref>''Loveline'', September 8, 1996.</ref> while at Brown, he played guitar in a band with fellow Brown student [[Lisa Loeb]]. Following his graduation from Brown in 1992, he moved to Los Angeles.<ref name="latimes.com"/>