Tim DeLaughter

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Tim DeLaughter

Background information
Born	18 November 1965 (1965-11-18) (age 42)
Origin	Dallas, Texas, United States
Genre(s)	Alternative rock, choral, spiritual
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, keyboards
Years active	1991–present
Label(s)	Good Records
Associated acts	Polyphonic Spree Tripping Daisy Secret Machines
Website	thepolyphonicspree.com

Tim DeLaughter (born 18 November 1965 in Dallas, Texas), is a singer and songwriter. He has gained attention as a very energetic and engaging frontman for both Tripping Daisy and his current band, The Polyphonic Spree.

Following the break-up of Tripping Daisy, and prior to the formation of The Polyphonic Spree, DeLaughter opened the record store Good Records located on Lower Greenville in Dallas. Since 2001, DeLaughter has toured extensively with his new band, and has collaborated with acts such as Stereolab, Death in Vegas, Peter Gabriel and David Bowie. Most recently he scored the music for the film, Thumbsucker. The soundtrack to that film was released on September 13, 2005.

He was heavily influenced by the death of Tripping Daisy's lead guitarist, Wes Berggren. Though he was raised somewhat religiously, DeLaughter says he "started finding religion in other things that had nothing to do with the church – it was more the environment, trees and sun and weather and, you know. I found that my prosperity is through the growth of the environment, the trees and stuff. It’s weird – I see, like, the asphalt and there’s a little patch of grass that grows up in that asphalt and cars are going over it daily. We’ve all seen it, and it’s the worst environment for anything to grow, but that patch of grass that’s growing there in the middle of that asphalt with cars rolling over it somehow makes an enormous amount of sense to me. So I find a lot of religion in that as well. It’s an interesting path I’ve been on, but there again, you know, there’s my hope all over again. I think we’re all there in the same place, it’s just a different way of looking at it."

DeLaughter is married to Julie Doyle, one of the back-up singers in The Polyphonic Spree. They have four children.

The Polyphonic Spree has been touted by many as a cult of some sorts because of their closely knit band structure and their dress code (They wear robes).