Tyler Joseph Research Paper

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Tyler Joseph is most known for being the co-founder and frontman of the American band Twenty One Pilots (usually stylized as twenty | one | pilots or twenty øne piløts). He was born in Columbus, Ohio, on December 1st, 1988. He was born to Chris and Kelly Joseph, the first of four children. He has two brothers, Zack and Jay, and a sister, Madison. He and his siblings were homeschooled for most of elementary school and middle school, before later attending a private Christian high school. Throughout his homeschooling and years in high school, basketball was always a big part of his life. His father was a school principal, and his mother a math teacher, and both coached basketball. After practicing for years at home, he went on to play point guard for Worthington Christian School's boy's basketball team. …show more content…

After seeing a performance in a High Street club, he rejected a scholarship he had recieved for basketball and decided to start playing music, starting with the keyboard he had recieved for Christmas one year. Once he learned how to play, he began to write his own lyrics, posting a self-recorded and produced album online in 2008. At first thought to be a six track EP, the rest of the album was discovered online is 2015, and the now completed No Phun Intended has a grand total of 21 songs. It is believed that Tyler was in his junior and senior years of high school when he wrote the majority of the lyrics, which touch on themes of mental illness and

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