Ed Masuga is the youngest of ten siblings. After bringing him home as a newborn with the birth tag "Boy Masuga" on his wrist, his parents ended up calling him "Boy" for the first few years of his life. When they started calling him "Danny," a shortened version of his given name, he refused, preferring to go by his middle name. So struck was he by a popular country star of the time, young Ed Masuga would reply to those calling him "Danny" by saying, "I'm not Danny. I'm Eddie.
Eddie Rabbit." His drifting family was never satisfied in any one place for too long, and he grew up bouncing between shacks,
motels,
casinos,
trailers, forests, and
barroom kitchens. At the age of two years he saw his dad compete on the game show "
Name That Tune," and though the appearance netted just a
jukebox and a trip to
Puerto Rico, Ed's future as a traveling musician had been fully inspired. Masuga moved to the
San Francisco Bay Area to attend college at
UC Berkeley, and initially became known in the
folk music community while performing at student
co-op houses. His sister is the writer
Katy Masuga. ==Discography==