Ty Jeffries has two childhood strands of memory about performing . Firstly he recalls his actor/director father Lionel at home learning scripts or being on film sets with him in England and Hollywood.The second is equally remarkable – his own musical career – becoming a musician at age 5 and attending the prestigious Purcell School of Music aged 13.
Not only was he studying piano and composition but also writing songs – with his first commercial contract being signed when he was 14.Thwarted in his desire to go to RADA , he took a degree in Music and Drama at Middlesex University.
Already fascinated with the likes of Garbo and Bette Davies, he increasingly became interested in the phenomenon of the “ failed diva” – the many we don’t know.