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At the age of 11, Denver received an acoustic guitar from his grandmother.
He learned to play well enough to perform at local clubs by the time he was in college.
He adopted the surname " Denver " after the capital of his favorite state, Colorado.
He decided to change his name when Randy Sparks, founder of The New Christy Minstrels, suggested that " Deutschendorf " wouldn't fit comfortably on a marquee.
Denver attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock and sang in a folk-music group called " The Alpine Trio " while pursuing architecture studies.
He was also a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.
Denver dropped out of the Texas Tech School of Engineering in 1963, and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he sang in folk clubs.
In 1965, Denver joined the Chad Mitchell Trio, a folk group that had been renamed " The Mitchell Trio " prior to Chad Mitchell's departure and before Denver's arrival, and then " Denver, Boise, and Johnson " ( John Denver, David Boise, and Michael Johnson ).
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