It wasn’t easy, especially since the lawyers were my parents,” said Miller. “I had to convince two lawyers that this was a good idea. Miller attended the NYU Clive Davis School of Music before he started writing and decided to quit school to pursue his love of music. “I played in-between acts, no one really paid much attention to me,” he laughs, “But it gave me good experience with stage presence and crowds.”
Miller made his debut at a burlesque bar when he was 18. We had very different music tastes but he helped me a lot, “ Miller said. A person who really helped me and encouraged me to write was my piano teacher who was a wedding singer. “The three or four months we spent driving back and forth every day really affected me because it got me listening to music.
Instead of being bored on the two-hour commute to school he spent his time listening to music from Frank Sinatra, David Bowie and Elton John. The young artist went to high school in New Jersey while still living in New York. His guitar player Ian Bramberger and bass player, Mike Morrongiello are both from New York as well. And that was the point when I started writing my own songs.Tor Miller is an up and coming musician from New York City who visited the 105.5 Triple M studios on Friday Jan. I listened to those records pretty much nonstop, up and back. She would drop me off and I’d sit for about half an hour, waiting for school to open, listening to the music she had given me – Ziggy Stardust, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac. Each weekday he and his mother would do “a 90-minute commute. It was those six months, and the two years that followed, that would shape him both as a singer and as a songwriter. When he was 12, his parents moved from Manhattan out to New Jersey and six months later, Tor enrolled in a new school. How cool must it be to be able to shrug in explanation -oh, the singing? I never thought anything of it.)Īs Tor tells it, it took a major upheaval in his life to kickstart his conviction and self-belief, and turn him from someone who would “sing around the house all the time” into an artist on a mission. I do know that they would go to parent evenings and ask my teachers about my participation in music, and the teachers would go: ‘What? He never contributes.’ I’d sing along to the radio, but I never thought anything of it.” (one can easily lose count of the great singers who will give a similar answer when quizzed about their talent. My parents always say that I would sing around the house all the time, too, but I don’t remember that. He grew up, he says, with a dad “who was part of the Glee Club at university, and he’d sing all the time at home, all these old college drinking songs. Native New Yorker Tor Miller is endearingly vague when asked to explain the source of his singing voice.
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