Guitarist and singer Dann Huff was born in 1960 and was raised in a musically gifted family. Their father, Ronn Huff, worked as a conductor and arranger. Dann favored the guitar. He took a few lessons; some even classical, but mostly played by ear. When he was 13, a session guitarist spent some time teaching him a scale, and that kind of set the young Dann Huff on the career path he followed. In high school, Huff, along with Gordon Kennedy, was part of a little band that played at school assemblies and such. When Huff was only 16 years old, he began performing on demos in Nashville.