User:Mrtimmoa

Early Years

T-Birrd was Born Timothy G. Moa on July 9th 1983 to parents of partial Tongan, Portugeese and Danish ancestry and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. Moa’s Father worked as a Warehouse Manager for Ford Motors and passed away in 1995. His Mother was a homemaker. His parents raised Tim and his three older brothers and younger sister in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church where he spent a lot of time singing up the front with the youth group. In 1994 His parents made him take up Clarinet lessons in his older brother’s footsteps (his siblings learnt to play clarinet, piano, trumpet and violin between the four of them). It was his elder brothers record and tape collection that was responsible for Birrd’s musical education, who showed him Prince, New Edition, Jodeci, NWA, 2 Live Crew. He mentions his older siblings quite often when asked about his taste in music. In Junior High Birrd was the lead singer in the school band. He later moved to Australia in 2001 and worked in the Finance industry for Volkswagen. It was during his time at Volkswagen he decided to put his production and rapping/singing skills to use.

The Dark City Project Darkcity was formed in November 2006 (later re-named as The Dark City Project). The other two members of the group Moses “Mr Mo” Havea and Conrad “Conz” Ta’akimoeaka are both first cousins of Birrd.