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Performing was predestined for Tom TomCat Trumpet Burke.
Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the country before his family settled in Glenview when he was in third grade. With a steady pulse of Broadway tunes in his veins, Burke said he knew music was going to be his life.
I often said, and I ve felt it to be true in my heart, that I really didn t choose the trumpet. It kind of chose me, he said. As soon as I was old enough, there s pictures of me super tiny holding a trumpet.