McLean grew up in the predominantly white, middle-class suburb of New Rochelle, New York, in the late 1950s.
“My life has been a journey of finding myself and finding things that I could do that I didn’t believe I was capable of.” “Singing was really the thing I could do that would seem to get me paid attention to in a good way,” McLean tells American Songwriter while seated inside the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum in Nashville hours before his induction.
