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Charlie Puth is headed out on tour — and he wants to impress your dad

LOS ANGELES - Charlie Puth was deep into a takeout salad at a Burbank rehearsal studio when he heard two members of his road band discussing his song "How Long," specifically the best way to navigate a move from one section of the tune to another.

"Wait, are you guys talking about the turnaround?" the singer asked, springing up from the floor, where he'd been sitting cross-legged in pajama-style pants, a vintage keytar slung around his neck as he ate.

At 26 years old, Puth has already scored three top-10 singles, including one - "See You Again," his sentimental duet with Wiz Khalifa from the "Furious 7" soundtrack - that spent 12 weeks at No.1 and established Puth as a baby-faced purveyor of toothless pop banalities. But

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