The New Jersey born-and-raised Timmy Sean Mahoney began his career performing alongside his father and uncles in the longest running Beatles tribute show in the world, Long Live The Beatles...though not quite on the stage. Right next to it, you could find three-year old Timmy acting out each era of The Beatles' career, complete with different instruments and costume changes (a bathrobe substituting for a Sgt. Pepper's uniform).
After winning talent shows by drumming along with recordings of The Beatles as a kindergartner, it would only take a few more years before Timmy would begin drumming and playing guitar professionally at the age of thirteen in The Mahoney Brothers' other production, Jukebox Heroes Live. Learning and performing the music featured in the show, including note-for-note renditions of songs by The Beach Boys, The Everly Brothers, and Buddy Holly, gave Timmy not only stage experience at a young age, but also an early master class in the basics of great songwriting and arrangement. The process of deconstructing and reconstructing classic hits gave Timmy a strong foundation to be able to begin to construct his own original songs as a young teen. He completed his first full-length album (written, performed, produced, and mixed entirely by himself) before he was old enough to get behind the wheel of a car.
The combination of Timmy's early appreciation for timeless melodies, and the setting of growing up in the 1990s, led him to fall in love with both catchy alternative rock like Weezer and Ben Folds, but also with mainstream R&B and pop - none so more than Michael Jackson. Though influences from both worlds can be heard across much of Timmy's songwriting to this day, that divide from his childhood has come to broadly define his two musical outlets in the late 2010s: Sir Video and Timmy Sean & The Celebrities. While Sir Video is heavily influenced by modern electronic pop music with an 1980s synth-funk sensibility, his solo material (with his live band The Celebrities) is an amalgamation of 1950s and 1960s rock 'n roll, harmony-laden 1970s glam, and turn-of-the-millenium powerpop.
Following the dissolution of his high school-formed band LUZER, Timmy (now going simply as "Timmy Sean" to avoid confusion with several other established music artists named Tim Mahoney) recorded and released his first official solo album in 2010. Songs From And Inspired By Noisewater, with the loose concept of being a soundtrack to an imaginary film, would land itself on more than a dozen "Top Albums Of 2010" lists. Review highlights included calling Noisewater a "power pop tour de force...one of the new decade's most impressive pop discs" (Absolute Powerpop), "a keyboard-based minor mode masterpiece" (Big Hollywood), and "If Noisewater were indeed a movie, and this album a true soundtrack, it should be nominated for best movie soundtrack. Genius...pure genius, through and through." (Bill Sullivan, BMF).