Last year’s breakout star recommends composer/pianist Rachel Grimes’ ‘molasses-sweet melodies.’ By James Montgomery Owl City Photo: Universal Republic In 2007, Adam Young was working a string of odd jobs and living in his parents’ basement in Owatonna, Minnesota (population 22,434). In 2009, under the guise of Owl City , he toured the world, landed at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Fireflies” and sold nearly 700,000 copies of his second album, Ocean Eyes.
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