When Michael Goessling, 59, heard his biological father’s voice for the first time last year, he swore he recognized it.
\n\n“I just said: ‘What a voice that guy has!’… it just sounded so familiar, but I couldn’t place it.”
\n\nWhen they spoke over the phone that night, it clicked.
\n\n“Finally, I just said: ‘Are you Michael McDonald?’” Goessling recalled. “And he chuckled and he said, ‘Yeah, I’m afraid so.’”
\n\nMcDonald, a five-time Grammy winner who is lead vocalist of the Doobie Brothers and a successful solo artist, had a child in Missouri with his middle school sweetheart and neighbor when they were 14-years-old, Goessling told NBC News on Friday.
\n\nThe pair gave up the baby in a closed adoption to Goessling’s parents, who lived roughly 20 minutes away in a suburb of St. Louis, and went their separate ways, Goessling said.
\n\nNearly 58 years later, they reached out to their son.
\n\nIn May, Goessling said he received a letter in the mail from his biological parents asking to make contact. The 59-year-old said they tracked him down after one of Goessling’s half-brother’s found him through a 23andMe DNA test.
\n\nGoessling said he spoke with his biological mother that night and…
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