 He is the younger child of two, with an older sister named Alice.His mother, Mary ("née" Peckham), was a piano teacher at The Pennfield School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and his father, Dr. Thomas Charles Day, is a retired professor of music history at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.His family's original surname was "Del Giorno" and his father is of Irish and Italian descent., while his mother has English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry.