Tiffany Shea Band

So I gotta write a personal bio. Hmmm. Where to start? I was born into music. I remember climbing up onto my mother's piano bench in that tiny living room where she taught 35 students a week, and feeling silent contentment and inner perfection as I discovered each note. The bench seemed at least 2 stories tall from my 3-year-old point of view, and with my blanket in hand, my Mother has told me in recent years that I would pluck away at the keys for hours, without any awareness that life was happening around me. When she would try to show me something the way a teacher would do, I simply climbed down off the bench and walked away. I guess that was the beginning of the rebellion. The music, though, was in me, and I spent hours and years teaching myself piano and guitar. I spent most of my Junior High years attending after-school programs for Performing Arts. In high school and college I played Flute and sang in the Chior Ensembles and studied Voice privately. Someone wrote a song about me once entitled "Renaissance Girl," as my passion for music, art, theatre, dance and literature seemed to ooze out of my being and define my purpose.

By the 3rd year of college, I became unsettled with my lack of specific direction. I didn't want to be a jack-of-all-trades type without true focus, however I couldn't pick just one outlet as I loved (and still love) them all equally. When I was 21, a friend of mine who was in a great rock band decided it would be his mission to get me to an open mic night at Club Dada in Dallas. I had only written a handful of songs at that time, and was a horribleguitarist. (Just good enough to barely "jam" with the guys in Bruce Hall at University of North Texas in Denton on weekends). After about 3 months of coercion, I finally gave in, and that night I performed 3 of my own songs, and my entire life purpose became clear... I knew what I was put on the planet to do. The next year and a half I focused on guitar and songwriting, and then the gigs and the band came in 1997 and well, 10 years and 8 albums later, "the rest is history!"