![]() Post-college, Tedder waited tables before securing an internship with DreamWorks SKG in Nashville, where he cut his teeth singing and producing demos for other up-and-coming talents. Dubbing their embryonic outfit This Beautiful Mess – after Sixpence None The Richer’s then-popular LP of the same name – they played a few local coffee-house gigs but disbanded when Tedder and Filkins went their separate ways after their senior year came to an end. ![]() ![]() Tedder’s first tentative attempt at forming the band that would eventually become OneRepublic came in 1996 when he befriended lead guitarist Zach Filkins while the two were attending high school in Colorado Springs. Like teenagers the world over, the young Ryan dreamed of pop stardom but, instead of merely posing in front of his bedroom mirror, he possessed the dedication and drive necessary to teach himself how to really sing: practising religiously for at least two hours every day in his early teens and learning his craft through imitating the vocal stylings of his heroes, The Beatles, Peter Gabriel and Stevie Wonder. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1979, he was encouraged to sing by his musician father and school-teacher mother at the age of seven – and has never looked back since. Even during his most formative years, Ryan Tedder was entranced by music and its myriad possibilities.
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