Tim Rice-Oxley
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Timothy James Rice-Oxley |
| Also known as | Tim Rice-Oxley |
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2 June 1976 Oxford, England, UK |
| Genres | Alternative rock, piano rock, pop rock, folk rock |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
| Instruments | Piano, bass, keyboards, backing vocals, keytar, guitar, synthesizer, recorder, harpsichord |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Associated acts | Keane, Mt. Desolation, Gwen Stefani, Kylie Minogue |
Timothy James "Tim" Rice-Oxley (born 2 June 1976), is a musician, producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for being keyboardist, singer and songwriter in the British band Keane. In 2010 he formed a side-project, Mt. Desolation, with his Keane bandmate Jesse Quin.
Rice-Oxley was born in Oxford, England to Charles Patrick and Margaret Rice-Oxley. He had piano lessons when he was a teenager but admitted to hating them and never practising pieces because they were all classical music which he found boring. After his parents stopped his lessons, he developed a liking for piano and so taught himself how to play, mainly because of The Beatles.
It was revealed in early 2010 that he was working on a side-project called Mt. Desolation along with his bandmate Jesse Quin, which resulted in an album release and supporting tour.
Currently, he provides live and studio backing vocals for Keane, except for the studio songs Sunshine, This Is the Last Time (demo version) and Your Love where he sings the lead vocals, as well as some Under the Iron Sea DVD and Perfect Symmetry demos.
In 2006, Rice-Oxley co-wrote the songs Early Winter, and The Girl Inside (unreleased) on Gwen Stefani's second solo album, The Sweet Escape. Early Winter has been performed by Keane live. The song Perfect Symmetry from the album of the same name is considered by Chaplin to be one of the best Rice-Oxley has written. In 2009, he co-wrote the song Everything Is Beautiful for Kylie Minogue's eleventh studio album, Aphrodite.
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