Tim Finn was born in 1952 in Te Awamutu, New Zealand to working class teachers. He showed an early interest in music and formed the band Split Enz with friends from university in 1971. While Split Enz had some success, the band found greater commercial success when Tim's brother Neil joined. Tim Finn is a singer and songwriter who was a founding member of Split Enz and later Crowded House, contributing to both bands' hits over several decades of music career.

1. Tim Finn
By: Tanya Everitt
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2. Birthplace and birthdate
Tin Finn was born on 25 June 1952
in Te Awamutu, New Zealand by
two working class teachers. His
life was about music his life was
kinda like music too, he had his
ups and he had his downs. His
birth name is really Brian
Timorthy Finn but his stage name
is Tim. He also has a younger
brother Neil Finn that sings.
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3. Family Life
Tim's fathers name was
Richard, he was farmer's
accountant and a teacher,
his mother Mary was a
Catholic daughter of an
Irish farmland. Tim also had
three siblings, there names
are Carolyn, Judy and Neil.
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4. Education
When he was 13 years old, he went
on a scholarship at the Scared Heart
Collage. It was a Catholic boarding
school. He took piano lesson from a
nun.
He also went to Auckland University
in 1971 and quit in the middle of 1972
because his music was much more
important than studies. So then on,
he and his buddies from university
formed a group called Split Enz, the
group was a hit when his brother
Neil Finn came into the band.
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5. Memorable
Tim is memorable because he is
a singer. He started singing in
1971 when he first walk into the
music room in Auckland
University and started jamming
with his friends Mike Chunn,
Robert Gillies, Philip Judd and
Noel Crombie. Then he thought
music was more important to
Brian than his studies.
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6. Quailties
He is a singer (of course) and he has had a
really interesting path in his life he just started
singing when he walk into the music room at
Auckland University and just jammed with his
friends and in life he thought that music was
his life he cared about it more about studies
he became famous and still hang out with his
friends because they were in a band together,
there album didn't sell as good as they thought
but when his younger brother Neil Finn came
into the band they were a hit, at the same
time Tim was feeling happy but a little jealous
too. So he started in around 1971 and went on
with singing. He was proud to be a New
Zealander, he even call his band 'Split Enz' it
was going to be Split Ends but the two last
letters represent where the band was from.
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7. * Split Enz
** Crowded House
*** ALT
Key Tracks
Time for a Change (1975) *
Late Last Night (1975) *
Another Great Divide (1977) *
I See Red (1978) *
I Hope I Never (1980) *
Hard Act to Follow (1981) *
Dirty Creature (1982) *
Six Months in a Leaky Boat (1982) *
Next Exit (1983) *
A Fraction Too Much Friction (1983)
Carve You in Marble (1986)
How’m I Gonna Sleep (1989)
Chocolate Cake (1991) **
Hit the Ground Running (1993)
Persuasion (1993)
What You’ve Done (1995) ***
Death of a Popular Song (2000)
Songline (2001)
Edible Flowers [with Neil Finn] (2002)
Couldn’t Be Done (2006)
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8. Bibliography
Google Images
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Finn_Tim.html
http://whitgunn.freeservers.com/Davemusic/F/finn-tim/-
actpage.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278178/bio
http:/google.co.nz/TimFinn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Finn
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