In spring 2022, Zach Montana grasped his dream.

Zach is sitting in his dad’s truck after a shift at work. He finds a CD in the player. He listens. “Whoa, this is really good … Oh my God. That's my dad.”

The track he’s found is one of his dad’s unreleased disco recordings from the 1970s. So, he opens TikTok and hits the record button. And his life changes forever.

The video blows up overnight. It goes viral — to the tune of over 1 million likes on this video to date. He has no time for his classes. He’s taking phone calls, responding to texts.

“Everybody wants a piece all of a sudden. Everybody wants to blow you up. I was 20, and I bought it.”

Major publications reach out, and then he gets a call from the team behind “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” They invite Zach and his dad to perform the song

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