Couple wed to their music
January 16, 2004

By SHELLEY SHEPHERD KLANER
FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Without music, Deb and Chuck McAuley might never have met, fallen in love, gotten married, raised a child and released their first CD.

They met as teenagers, singing in a high school choir in Somerville, N.J. Married for 27 years now, the McAuleys pushed their passion for music to a new level with the release of their initial recording, "Torch."

Although they had seen each other around school, it wasn't until an entrepreneurial music teacher paired them up to perform at a wedding that they discovered each other and have stuck together since. They haven't stopped singing together since those initial performances of "Annie's Song" and "The Wedding Song." And their love of music has never been far from their day-to-day activities, although Chuck McAuley works as a government relations director in the insurance industry and Deb McAuley just completed a communications degree at Sonoma State University.

"Music is a