Torben Tietz

Born in 1989, I grew up in a small city near to Augsburg, Germany. For the first 15 years of my life, music didn't play a big role except for what was clinking from the kitchen radio. Things changed rapidly when i got injured and was not able to do sports - "my" thing during this time - for a long time. So I borrowed a guitar from a neighbour, took some lessons and started listening to what should become my musical influences. Spending hours and hours trying to learn the intro "Under the bridge" in front of the TV, i got more and more addicted of playing.

First thing that really blew my mind was "Reptile" by "The Strokes". I've been listening to these two guitars playing this great stuff certanly for more than a billion times.
At the age of 17 I got into my first band, stayed there for 3 years, and after finishing school I got to a point, where music had become a very important part of my life. So I decided to go to school once more and spend one year at the Downtown Music Insitute, Augsburg doing the "Intensivlehrgang Popmusik" in order to improve my skills. After finishing the diploma with 1,42 (which does not say anything, but sometimes numbers can be impressive) I somehow decided to study physics in Erlangen, what I am doing to this very day.
During these two and a half years i played guitar in a musical and met my second band, where i started to sing almost 2 years ago.

The last 6 months i spend as an Erasmus-student in Portugal where I started to sing and play alone in the streets of Porto, in front of the bars in Coimbra and in the bars of Lisbon. It's not that I haven't been writing songs before, but staying in Portugal made me begin to write more stuff than ever. Also, I decided that I will take the music-thing more seriously and see how far I can get with it. To be continued...