Branch and Dean is a brand-new duo made up of two guys with a lifetime of history between them. 

Steve Branch and Marlon Dean grew up in the small Jacksonville suburb of Macclenny, Fla., in an area where music was king. They got to know one another when Dean’s schoolteacher mother heard Branch, a former student of hers, sing at a county fair talent show and took him under her wing. The two small town boys gradually began singing together, whether onstage at local bars and festivals or at home during Dean family gatherings.