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Tim Rice-Oxley
Background information
Birth name	Timothy James Rice-Oxley
Also known as	Tim Rice-Oxley
Born	( 1976-06-02 ) 2 June 1976 (age 48) Oxford , England
Genres	Alternative rock pop rock folk rock
Occupation(s)	Musician producer songwriter
Instrument(s)	Piano keyboards vocals bass
Years active	1995?present
Member of	Keane Mt. Desolation

Timothy James Rice-Oxley (born 2 June 1976) is an English songwriter and musician, best known for being the keyboardist, backing vocalist and songwriter of the alternative rock band Keane . In 2010, he formed a side-project, Mt. Desolation , with his Keane bandmate Jesse Quin .

Life and career [ edit ]

Timothy James Rice-Oxley was born in Oxford to Charles Patrick and Margaret Rice-Oxley. He has a younger brother, Tom, born in 1979. He had piano lessons when he was a teenager but admitted to hating them and never practising pieces because they were all classical music , which he found boring. After his parents stopped his lessons, Rice-Oxley developed a liking for piano and so taught himself how to play, mainly because of the Beatles . ^[1]

Keane [ edit ]

Rice-Oxley provides live and studio backing vocals for Keane, except for the studio songs " Sunshine ", " This Is the Last Time " (demo version) and " Your Love " where he sings the lead vocals, as well as some Under the Iron Sea DVD and Perfect Symmetry demos.

Compositions [ edit ]

In 2006, Rice-Oxley co-wrote the songs " Early Winter ", and "The Girl Inside" (unreleased) on Gwen Stefani 's second solo album, The Sweet Escape . "Early Winter" has been performed by Keane live. The song " Perfect Symmetry " from the album of the same name is considered by Chaplin to be one of the best Rice-Oxley has written. In 2009, he co-wrote the song "Everything Is Beautiful" for Kylie Minogue 's eleventh studio album, Aphrodite . ^[2]

Rice-Oxley composed all the songs for the side-project Mt. Desolation with Jesse Quin in 2010. That same year Rice-Oxley provided the main vocal in Keane for the first time on the song "Your Love", which appeared on the experimental EP Night Train . He sang the song live. In 2013, he co-wrote the song "Jump" with Gary Barlow for the latter's solo album, Since I Saw You Last .

In 2016 he co-wrote the song "Magnificent Time" by Travis .

Mt. Desolation [ edit ]

Mt. Desolation is an alt-country side-project that Rice-Oxley formed with bassist Jesse Quin . The band also consists of members of Mumford & Sons , The Killers and The Staves . Mt. Desolation released their self-titled debut album on 18 October 2010. The band toured the UK and Ireland in September 2010 and the US and Canada in October 2010. ^[3]

The band's second album, When the Night Calls , was released on 25 May 2018. It was followed by a short tour of the UK in June 2018. ^[4]

Personal life [ edit ]

Rice-Oxley lives in Polegate , East Sussex. He has two daughters, Lilac and Anna.

Reportedly, the effects of touring took their toll on Rice-Oxley's marriage to Jayne, and they split up in 2012 after seven years of marriage. ^[5]

Awards [ edit ]

Rice-Oxley won an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year in May 2005.

Discography [ edit ]

With Keane [ edit ]

With Mt. Desolation [ edit ]

Studio albums

• Mt. Desolation (2010)
• When the Night Calls (2018)
• Through Crooked Aim (2023)

References [ edit ]