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 This is part of a report I did on Ty for my English class. Most of it is from the biography I got from his fan club and the rest is from an article on Ty in the March/April 1995 edition of Country Fever by Neil Haislop.
-Becky


Ty was born on December 5, 1963 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ty�s dream to become a country music singer started when he was five years old at 1713 West Minster Road in Oklahoma City on the day his grandfather, Ed Lester, introduced Ty to music. Ty would sit on his front porch with his grandfather and they would play old country songs on a guitar. They had favorites back then, including Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzel, and Roy Acuff. Later Ty liked newer country artists like Don Williams, John Conlee, and Keith Whitley. When Ty turned sixteen his grandfather gave him the guitar they used to play saying, �Here, take it.� To this day Ed Lester is Ty�s biggest influence.

In junior high and high school Ty began playing in bands. His chorus teacher, Winifred Rose , gave him reinforcement in his vocal abilities. Ty still credits Rose for giving him encouragement.

Playing in bands did not mean Ty could hang out in honky tonks with his friends. His parents kept a close eye on him. �My dad has very traditional values,� Ty said, �Family is very important to him. And my mom is the kind who waited up for her boys just to see if we�d been behaving.� (Ty has a younger brother, Greg England.)

While Ty was in college at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, he played acoustic sets at Aunt Molly�s, a coffee shop in the basement of the university�s student union. One night a student, Ted Larkin, introduced Ty to another student attending Oklahoma State who also loved music, Garth Brooks. Ty and Garth became fast friends. The two later became roommates. Until then, Ty�s dreams didn�t seem possible. Garth showed him that they could become reality. Before Garth graduated, they made a pact that if one of them ever got into the music business , the other one would help him along.

Unfortunately, Garth got Ty so worked up about music that his grades started slipping and Ty�s father brought him home to a job and night school. Ty finished his degree and worked as an automotive plant representative. He was on the road selling paint when Garth called him from Nashville.

�It was just three months after I graduated from college,� Ty explained, �I had a real good job marketing automotive paint, and Garth called me. He said, �I�ve just signed my record deal and I need to know if you�re coming here to be in my band.� I said, �Man let me think about it.� The next day I called him and said, �I thought about it. I�m coming.� I gave two weeks� notice and left.� Ty remained in Garth�s band, Stillwater, for about six years, all the time knowing he would eventually leave and start a solo career of his own. At the end of 1994 Garth took a year off and suggested to Ty that it would be the perfect time to start his own career.



Ty's Music

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Ty England:

�Redneck Son�

�Should�ve Asked Her Faster�

�Smoke In Her Eyes�

�Her Only Bad Habit Is Me�

�New Faces In The Fields�

�A Swing Like That�

�You�ll Find Somebody New�

�The Blues Ain�t News To Me�

�It�s Lonesome Everywhere�

�Is That You�


Two Ways To Fall:

�It Starts With L�

�Two Ways To Fall�

�I�ll Take Today�

�Never Say Never�

�The Last Dance�

�Kick Back�

�Irresistible You�

�Backslider�s Prayer�

�All Of The Above�

�Sure�









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