HOT GALLERY: Empty Those Spit Valves and Check Out These Former Band Geeks Who Hit It Big in Hollywood
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Norah Jones
This eighth grader at Colleyville Middle School in Texas graduated from band sax to jazz diva with 2002's Come Away with Me. Jones did her musical roots proud and went on to release five more highly acclaimed albums.
Leave it to Tommy Lee to make band geeks look cool. Back in 1978, sophomore Tommy Lee hit the skins in the Royal Oak High School marching band in Covina, California.
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Steven Spielberg
Dapper young Spielberg, seen here in his junior year at Arcadia High
School in Phoenix, Arizona, grew up to direct and produce some of the most-loved movies of all time.
Former Alias heroine Jennifer Garner pulled a band-geek double whammy by sporting some studious spectacles as a senior at George Washington High School in Charleston, West Virginia.
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Emeril Lagasse
Junior chef Emeril Lagasse kicked it up an octave on the trumpet at
Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School in Fall Fiver, Massachusetts. Lagasse has been a judge on Top Chef and hosts a cooking show Emeril's Florida.
