Before the Denver Broncos’ DeMarcus Ware was laying hits quarterbacks in the NFL, he was hitting high notes.
As the Players’ Tribune writes, the outside linebacker was in an R&B band in high school with a few of his friends. They called themselves Mirage, which is a great name for an R&B band, particularly one capable of a simmering slow jam like “Sometimes,” the single Ware has shared from the band’s one and only album.
According to Ware, their recording sessions were far from professional:
We tried the low-traffic bathrooms at school — spent hours putting towels up, down, around and on the floorboards, trying to find “good acoustics” (like we’d been told you were supposed to).