Jewel, Counting Crows, David Wilcox, Jack Johnson, G-Love and Special Sauce, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, James Taylor, Arrested Development, Guster, Barenaked Ladies, Bebo Norman, Louis Armstrong, Sting, James Blunt, Maroon 5, Coldplay, India Arie, Michael Franti and Spearhead, U2, Nickel Creek
Before becoming L.A. Music Award's "Male Singer/Songwriter of the Year" in 2007 & San Diego Acoustic Music Award's "Best Songwriter", Tiamo's career as a singer/songwriter didn't quite materialize until he intuitively hopped on a Greyhound bus headed for
Virginia...just days after graduating from the University of Arizona. Soon after, a close friend who had read Tiamo's poetry and heard him sing insisted that he explore the combination of songwriting and performing. Needing a friendly push, Tiamo had a hard time turning down his friend's eventual offer to pay for half the cost of a guitar as long as he kept one promise...get the guitar, let it sit your living room, and as Tiamo's friend put it, "the songs will just flow out of you". Surely enough, Tiamo looked at his new guitar one rainy night, picked it up, and without any previous guitar experience, "accidentally" wrote his first song. Currently, Tiamo has climbed to No. 4 and No. 18 on the Australian top 40 radio charts and is receiving radio play in 10 countries including the U.S. Now touting a publishing catalog of over 75 songs, Tiamo has taken his passion for performing to several of the most popular hot spots in San Diego such as opening for Jewel at San Diego's highly celebrated Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay, large college campuses including University of California San Diego and San Diego State University, and other highly regarded venues such as the House of Blues, Hard Rock Cafe, and the Belly Up. He has also performed live on TV stations such as San Diego's most watched morning news show, KFMB News Channel 8, and been featured on radio stations such as KPRI 102.1 FM. With the international release of his new CD entitled "Back to Love", a vision of creating positive change in the music industry, and a gravitating persona, you can't help but cheer on this modest, rising star.
