Tim Kingsbury

Early life[edit]

Kingsbury spent his early years living in and around Guelph, Ontario.^[1] He comes from a musical family; his mother Birdie was a pianist and a music director and Parkwood Gardens Community church in Guelph, and Kingsbury sang in the church choir.^[2] His brother Brett is a professional classical pianist. After piano lessons as a child, Kingsbury stopped playing music until a friend of his mother gave him a guitar when he was fourteen. He began to teach himself to play and write music.^[3] Kingsbury attended John F. Ross in Guelph^[4] where he began playing in bands when he was sixteen.^[3] Christian rock was an early influence for Kingsbury,^[2] especially the music of pioneering American Christian rock artist Larry Norman.^[3] Kingsbury cites his later influences as Pavement and Palace and Dinosaur Jr.^[3] He played with Gentleman Reg while in high school, only playing one show outside of Guelph.^[5]