Tim FinnBy: Tanya Everitt

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Birthplace and birthdate

Tin Finn was born on 25 June 1952 in Te Awamutu, New Zealand by two working class teachers. His life was about music his life was kinda like music too, he had his ups and he had his downs. His

birth name is really Brian Timorthy Finn but his stage name

is Tim. He also has a younger brother Neil Finn that sings.

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Family Life

Tim's fathers name was Richard, he was farmer's accountant and a teacher,

his mother Mary was a Catholic daughter of an

Irish farmland. Tim also had three siblings, there names are Carolyn, Judy and Neil.

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Education When he was 13 years old, he went

on a scholarship at the Scared Heart Collage. It was a Catholic boarding school. He took piano lesson from a

nun. He also went to Auckland University in 1971 and quit in the middle of 1972

because his music was much more important than studies. So then on, he and his buddies from university

formed a group called Split Enz, the group was a hit when his brother

Neil Finn came into the band.

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Memorable

Tim is memorable because he is a singer. He started singing in

1971 when he first walk into the music room in Auckland

University and started jamming with his friends Mike Chunn,

Robert Gillies, Philip Judd and Noel Crombie. Then he thought

music was more important to Brian than his studies.

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Quailties He is a singer (of course) and he has had a

really interesting path in his life he just started singing when he walk into the music room at Auckland University and just jammed with his friends and in life he thought that music was his life he cared about it more about studies he became famous and still hang out with his friends because they were in a band together,

there album didn't sell as good as they thought but when his younger brother Neil Finn came

into the band they were a hit, at the same time Tim was feeling happy but a little jealous too. So he started in around 1971 and went on

with singing. He was proud to be a New Zealander, he even call his band 'Split Enz' it was going to be Split Ends but the two last letters represent where the band was from.

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Key TracksTime for a Change (1975) *

Late Last Night (1975) * Another Great Divide (1977) *

I See Red (1978) * I Hope I Never (1980) *

Hard Act to Follow (1981) * Dirty Creature (1982) *

Six Months in a Leaky Boat (1982) * Next Exit (1983) *

A Fraction Too Much Friction (1983) Carve You in Marble (1986)

How’m I Gonna Sleep (1989) Chocolate Cake (1991) **

Hit the Ground Running (1993) Persuasion (1993)

What You’ve Done (1995) *** Death of a Popular Song (2000)

Songline (2001) Edible Flowers [with Neil Finn] (2002)

Couldn’t Be Done (2006)

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* Split Enz ** Crowded House

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Bibliography

Google Images

http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Finn_Tim.html

http://whitgunn.freeservers.com/Davemusic/F/finn-tim/-actpage.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278178/bio

http:/google.co.nz/TimFinn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Finn �8

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