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When did The Fray start making music?

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The Fray's first song “Oceans Away” released in 2002.


“Just a couple of kids who were up to no good” is how Isaac Slade, Joe King, Dave Welsh, and Ben Wysocki describe their Denver, Colorado, band. Formed in 2002 while Slade and King were schoolmates, and later joined by Welsh and Wysocki (who were in a band with Slade called Ember near 1999), the group self-released two EPs, Movement and Reason,... Read More
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