Taylor Dayne comes home for a Suffolk show
New York-native Taylor Dayne is diverging from her tour route with Swedish pop-rock group Roxette for a hometown show on Long Island.
On Sept. 17 at 8 p.m., the three-time-grammy-nominated, multi-genre-spanning American music icon will hit The Suffolk stage (118 E. Main St., Riverhead, 631-727-4343), bringing her hits back to the place that inspired them.
“When I’m coming back home, I see my sisters, I see my brothers, I see my people and I understand them,” says Dayne. “Just being out there on Long Island, I’m like ‘My God, you were my story.’”
Earlier this year, Dayne and her friend Celeste Fierro opened Saylor Beach House (111 Main St., Greenport, 631-477-0627) establishing more permanent roots on Long Island.
Dayne was born in New York City and moved to Baldwin, then Freeport, before she turned 5 years old.
She described her home life as “not very privileged,” but music, the arts and a broad way of thinking were always at the center of it. Songs wafted through the apartment buildings she lived in while her parents were collecting records from emerging artists like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Crosby, Stills & Nash. At the community pool, Dayne listened to teenagers’ transistor radios playing the top 40 and was inspired to explore the arts for herself.
“I felt like music could save my life,” says Dayne. “If I could really, really practice and really start sounding like the person that’s singing this song called My Cherie Amour, what couldn’t I do?”
