At the end of September in the early
1980s, a young man named W. Timothy Bailey, Jr. was born into a musical family.
The Kansan fell in love with the art around age 3, beating pots and pans, listening
to jazz and gospel. By age 11 he was writing lyrics, and by 13, he was crafting
tracks when not practicing violin or viola. Timothy studied at the Youth
Performing Arts School in Louisville, KY as a sophomore and junior in High
school, and graduated from Sumner Academy of Arts and Science in Kansas in
2002. Prior to moving to Los Angeles in 2004, Timothy majored in music
technology at the Kansas City Kansas Community College where he also sharpened
his jazz chops.
During this time Timothy also became a first
call bassist on the KC gospel scene, accompanying legends like Richard
Smallwood, Kim Burrell, and Dr. Bobby Jones among others. In 2005, Timothy
graduated from the Los Angeles Music Academy, where he furthered his bass
studies on a full scholarship. While in LA, he's been blessed to accompany
artists like Denice Williams, Chante Moore, Kenny Latimore, Natalie Cole, Ahmir
"?uestlove" Thompson, Natasha Beddingfield, Too $hort, Brian Kennedy,
Rachelle Ferrell, Judith Hill and many more, playing legendary venues like the Key Club,
the House Of Blues, the Hollywood Bowl and everything in between. Timothy has
appeared on television shows such as CDUSA, the KTLA Morning News and the Ellen
DeGeneres show. He's traveled the country with the likes of Chris Brown, El
DeBarge, Tyrese Gibson, J*Davey, Jamie Foxx, Lalah Hathaway, Gary Taylor and
Billy Davis and Marilyn McCoo of 5th Dimension. Timothy spent a portion of 2006
touring with the award winning play "U Don't Know Me - The Musical",
and in 2009 spent a month in Italy with Tyscott recording artist Cedric Ford
and Heart Of Worship.
Lately, the bassist has been working
with some of the world's most notable musicians like The Tonight Showís Paul
Jackson, Jr, Wayne Linsey and Teddy Campbell, Soul Seekers John
"Jubu" Smith, and Nisan Stewart, producers and world-class musicians
Terrace Martin and Mike Bereal, and many others. Mr. Bailey is also quite
active in the studio. His bass stylings were featured on Hidden Beach's Unwrapped Vol. 7 Back 2 Basicsî (where he played nearly all of the bass on the
album). Tim, also become a trusted session musician for producers like Laythun
Armor (Anita Baker, The Winans), JR Hutson (Jill Scott, Musiq Soulchild) and
Boom Batt Productions (Nelly, Bobby Valentino). To date, the 28 year-old, who
now goes by "Twizz" or "t.bailey", has placed songs on many
major and independent albums. Among those, rapper Mims "Music Is My
Savior", Rahsaan Patterson's "Wines and Spirits", and the Tamela
Mann (of Tyler Perry's 'Meet The Browns' fame) project entitled, 'The Master
Plan' which spent over 50 weeks in the top 10 of Billboard's Gospel charts. He
also produced and mixed the latest Terrell Carter ('Crazy Lunatic Psycho Fool')
and Josh Vietti ('Street Violin') projects in their entirety. Television shows that
have featured his music include MTV Cribs and Laffapolooza. The ASCAP member
who's production was featured on albums nominated for Stellar Awards and BET
Awards, grabbed the attention of FoxxKing Entertainment and BUG Music, who
signed Timothy to a publishing deal in 2008. Twizz' name and production company
"TooTwizzlin Productions" can be found along the pages of Billboard,
XXL, Soultracks.com and Giant Magazine.
Timothy (now a husband and a father)
serves as Music Director/Minister of Music at Community Bible Church in
Pasadena, CA. He is the founder of the band called, 'The WUNs (Whatever U
Needs)', co-founder of The WUNs Group (www.thewunsgroup.com) and co-founder of
the new production group, 'The Beat Traffickers.' But he'll be coming soon to a
city, country, radio or television near you.