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THE EARLY YEARS

Todd Edward Tisdale was born in Leominster, MA, on March 31, 1971. He was the youngest of Russell Tisdale and Barbara Ann Tucker's five children. Many of Todd's earliest memories are of his family listening to American Top 40 with Kasey Kasem, dancing and "rocking " to the hits (Todd and his siblings would sit on the couch and rock back and forth, moving their torso's to and fro from the back of a sofa, while listening to their favorite songs). After his parents seperated in 1979, Todd moved to West, Texas, with his mother and four siblings ( sisters, Angela and Dawn, and brothers, Sean and Stephen). There, they lived with Barbara's mother, Loraine Tucker, until 1981. While living with his grandmother, Todd learned that respect, integrity, and independence were essential to survival. When Todd was 10, his family moved to Freeport, TX, home of cockroaches and mesquitos by the gazillions. Russ moved to Las Vegas in 1982, followed by Todd and his brother, Stephen, in 1984. When he was in the eighth grade, Todd discovered that all the songs that he loved and Top 40 surveys that he obsessed over were published in a magazine called Billboard. He believes that it was the most important discovery of his life.