Editing Dallas Austin (section)

=== Early life ===
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During a 2019 interview with [[DJ Vlad]],<ref name=":0" /> Dallas Austin detailed previously unknown or unconfirmed events involving his life and career. Austin was born in [[Columbus, Georgia]] and graduated from a Columbus High school. His mother and father owned a night club called “The Party Club”, where Austin would play instruments and DJ’d during the day time. After his father died, Austin’s mother moved her family and her restaurant/nightclub downtown and lived next door to the restaurant.<ref name=":0"/>

As a child, Austin became interested in music at the age of 7 and asked his mother to buy him a keyboard. She was initially reluctant because she thought he would become bored and quickly move on to a different interest. In order to convince his mother to make the purchase, he proposed she initially buy him a small machine. In addition, he successfully negotiated terms for obtaining new instruments: if he continued to make progress with learning how to use the machines she purchased, she would buy him larger, more intricate keyboards on a yearly basis.<ref name=":0"/>

As young men, Austin’s two brothers were frequently in and out of jail. When he was a teenager, one of his brothers threw a keyboard across his bedroom. This upset Austin greatly, as he felt music was his way out of the environment in which his family lived, and ended up as a defining moment in Austin’s life. He felt that he could no longer continue living in Columbus and boarded a bus to Atlanta with the intention of living with his aunt. In order to keep their family together, his mother decided to move as well, although it took several months before she and Austin’s brothers could join. After she saved money and began working in an Atlanta restaurant, the family was able to reunite; however, the [[Ku Klux Klan]] were a persistent presence in the neighborhoods in which the family lived.<ref name=":0" />