The Group Portrait: Playing and Praying Together
New York magazine|April 24 - May 07, 2023
The de la Mottes are big on TikTok. But can they make the rent?
Kathryn Jezer-Morton
The Group Portrait: Playing and Praying Together

THE DE LA MOTTES, a family band of nine kids who play string instruments, are out of a Norman Rockwell painting, rosy-cheeked and tidily dressed, a vision of white Americana circa 1950. If your daily travels take you through Port Authority, Times Square, or Rockefeller Center late afternoons, you may have seen them. You may have wondered how it is that they’re so good or what sect of Christianity they are affiliated with. Above all, you may have asked yourself: How do you live here with that many kids?

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