Tim Diaz Band

Tim Diaz

Singer-songwriter Tim Diaz delves into "the ordinary events that people overlook in their lives" and finds poetry in what others might brush off as commonplace.

"I write about feelings and dilemmas and things that are everyday," explains the veteran of the Detroit music scene. After playing in bands such as Red Sea, Spank and RCA recording artists Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise, Tim has released his first solo album titled "Three Room House". The 12-song album is a collection of musical short stories, carefully detailed and drawn mostly from events in Diaz's own life.

"I kind of started anew," Diaz recalls. "I was divorced, stepped into the love of my life and a baby...it was just a certain time and a certain feeling of starting out, I suppose, that I captured in these songs."

If you've paid even a modicum of attention to Detroit music in the past 5 years you've probably run across Diaz, who was inspired to play music by both his grandfather and his great-grandfather. Diaz did roam after graduating from high school, playing piano in a traveling gospel band and subsequently living in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Upon returning to Detroit in the `90s he began playing in some of the city's most highly regarded bands. By 2002, Tim had been recognized as a solo artist by the Detroit Music Awards with the honors of Best Rock Instumentalist- Rock/Pop (1999), Outstanding Rock Insturmentalist - Rock/Pop (2000) and Outstanding Folk Vocalist- Acoustic/Folk (2002).