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Paul Richard Furay was born in Yellow Springs, Ohio on May 9, 1944. Furay learned to play the guitar, and in his teens joined his first band, a local group called the Barons. After completing high school, Furay enrolled at Oberlin College, and when not busy with classes, he took part in a student choral group. Their performances took the group to New York City, where Furay was drawn into the city's thriving folk music scene. He was playing folk venues in Greenwich Village when he was approached by producer and songwriter Ed E. Miller, who was putting together a Broadway show rooted in folk music. Furay joined the cast of Miller's project, America Sings, but the show closed after just two weeks. Hoping to salvage something from the failed show, Miller recruited nine members of the cast to form a commercial folk group he dubbed the Au-Go-Go Singers. The group lasted just long enough to cut an album in 1964 before breaking up, but one of Furay's bandmates was a singer from Texas named Stephen Stills, and they struck up a friendship. Furay had quit the Singers before they evolved into a group called the Company, where during a date in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, they shared a bill with the Squires, featuring a guitarist and songwriter named Neil Young. Stills relocated to Los Angeles, and after Young made his way to California, they decided to form a group. Remembering his talented friend from his Greenwich Village days, Stills invited Furay to join Buffalo Springfield. They made their debut in 1966, and in March 1967, they landed a Top Ten single with Stills' song "For What It's Worth."
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