sentences:  Phyfe started and ran an automotive engineering company for nearly ten years.In 1992, however, nourished by his grandparent's appreciation for song, Phyfe's study of languages in college and his travels abroad to England, France, Mexico, and Spain as well as his experience later as a musician in New York City's Greenwich Village, he sold the company and turned to music as a full-time profession.In the mid-1980s, Phyfe and his wife Paula became festival performers at the Michigan Renaissance Festival.