Someone wrote a song about me once entitled "Renaissance Girl," as they said that my passion for music, art, theatre, dance, literature, history and world culture seemed to define me in a lot of ways...and I guess they were right. In their description of me, though, they left out the ever-changing colors of my hair as another defining attribute!! For the record, my official position on hair stlye choices is that it is just another place to make art! Ultimately, however, I hope that people will be able to define me by someone who is kind, patient, compassionate, open-minded, trustworthy and FUN.

After a few years at college where I studied both art and music, I became unsettled with the lack of specific direction for my life. I didn't want to be a jack-of-all-trades type, however I couldn't pick just one outlet as I loved (and still love) them all equally. However, I knew I would need to focus my energies into something that would turn into a career.

I was 19 years old and a friend of mine (who was in my favortie local rock band) decided it would be his mission to get me to an open mic night at Club Dada in Dallas. I had only written a handful of songs at that time, and was a horrible guitarist. I had just started playing guitar -- from a napkin-sketch lesson with 4 chord positions on it-- given to me by a friend. Why? Because I wanted to 'jam with the guys' in the dorms, of course.... 

My friend came to my house and "kidnapped" me, taking me to my first 'gig' (well, a gig in a training bra sorta way), and that night I performed 3 of my own songs, (which I have on tape and totally sucked)-- but the experience was a rush that changed my life entirely. I felt at that moment that I knew what I was put on the planet to do. The next year and a half I focused on guitar and songwriting, and then the gigs and the band came in 1997 and well, 2,200+ gigs-on-a-couple-of-continents-touring-in-support-of-13-albums later, "the rest is history!"

Being alone painting or writing, working with amazing people while recording & producing in a studio, or being on stage with my guitar & band are the only places I really feel entirely normal...

 "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

-Emily Dickenson

There have been times when I couldn't express my life-place thru music or writing, so I paint. When there are no colors to accurately capture the inner hues, I can always just sit in my favorite comfy chair, put on my iPod, and find other peoples’ art & music somehow capturing my nebulous feelings perfectly.

Music and Art provide Release. My hope is to be an Artist who can provide expression for anyone listening, reminding us that we all love the same, cry the same, and hope the same. There is a thread of connectedness in raw human emotion. We are never alone in our life-place. I am You are Me. My personal goal in life is to be a humble, reverent vessel of the higher, greater plan & purpose. We all come here to learn, teach and grow. There is comfort in being quiet, being open, and clinging unwaveringly to the abundance of Grace.

So... Sing. Laugh. Live. Love. Hope. Dream. Dance. Believe. Forgive. Accept. Inspire. Understand. Trust. Transcend. Embrace. Release. Shine!

-Tiffany Shea

"It’ll all be ok in the end.  If it's not ok, it's not the end."