Michael Tighe

"Tiggers" redirects here. For the Winnie the Pooh character, see Tigger.

Michael Tighe is an American singer/songwriter, guitarist, and actor.

Biography

As a teenager, Tighe was in many New York Downtown theater productions in the 1990s, where he met Jeff Buckley.^[1] Though having had no experience, he was drafted into Buckley's band, with which he toured until the singer's death in 1997. He wrote the verse riff for the song "So Real" for Jeff Buckley, and helped in writing "Vancouver", "Dream Brother", "Moodswing Whiskey" "Demon John" and "The Sky Is a Landfill".

Afterwards, he was a member of Black Beetle which included Parker Kindred, Joan Wasser (Dambuilders) and Oren Bloedow (Elysian Fields) and The A.M.. Reputedly, he has done some dates in Europe with Elysian Fields, as well as a few tracks on several of their albums as bass player.

Recently he recorded a cover of Britney Spears's song, "Toxic" with Mark Ronson which was a minor hit in the United Kingdom. He is currently working on his debut solo album under the moniker, 'Tiggers.'

Notes

1. ^ Michael Tighe (2000-05-05). "Jeff Buckley You and I". Huntingbears. http://www.huntingbears.net/buckley/mtighech.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-28. 

References

• http://www.jeffbuckley.com/rfuller/buckley/faq/08band.html
• http://www.huntingbears.net/buckley/mtighech.htm
• http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Tighe

External links

• Michael Tighe at the Internet Movie Database

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