Tyler Joseph

Tyler Joseph was romantically associated with Jenna Black, his high-school friend’s sister-in-law, for several years and on July 8, 2014 the two got engaged.

He tied knot with Jenna on March 28, 2015 and at present the couple lives in Columbus. Sometimes, Jenna accompanies him in his street performances.

His net worth is estimated to be around 10 million USD.

Tyler Joseph was born on December 1, 1988, in Columbus, Ohio, US as the second child among four children of Kelly and Chris Joseph. His three siblings are brothers, Zack and Jay, and sister, Madison.

His father was a school principal remained basketball coach of ‘Worthington Christian High School’ from 1996 to 2005. His mother used to teach mathematics in Olentangy school district before taking basketball coaching of ‘Olentangy Orange High School’ in 2013.

Joseph, who was initially homeschooled by his mother, attended ‘Olentangy High School’ and graduated in 2005. He started playing basketball early and played for Worthington Christian in the point guard position. In 2008, his team attained second position in the Division IV state tournament.

Inspired by the performance of a songwriter at a High Street club, he turned down Otterbein University’s offer for a basketball scholarship and instead resolved to pursue a career in music.

He started off playing music with an old keyboard he received years back from his mother as a Christmas present. He would mimic radio melodies, compose songs and practice singing. However, his actual exposure to music happened in 2006 through DC Talk, a Christian hip hop group.

While still in high school he started working on his solo music career and released an EP titled ‘No Phun Intended’. He recorded the EP in his basement during his senior year in high school from 2007 to 2008. Till 2015 it was available on his PureVolume account.

Some tracks of ‘No Phun Intended’ were redone into fresh songs for ‘Twenty One Pilots’. For instance ‘Save’ was reworked and made available as free download for sometime on official website of the band. Again, the track ‘Trees’, re-worked later, found place on the albums ‘Vessel’ and ‘Regional At Best’.

He conceived the idea of forming a band and in this pursuit founded ‘Twenty One Pilots’ with his high school friends, Chris Salih and Nick Thomas in Columbus, Ohio in 2009. He named the band inspired by ‘All My Sons’, a 1947 play by Arthur Miller.

The band released its self-titled debut album ‘Twenty One Pilots’ independently on December 29, 2009. The album, all the fourteen tracks of which were written by Joseph, climbed at #139 in the US Billboard 200 chart and sold 115,000 copies.

Following the release of ‘Twenty One Pilots’, the band toured across Ohio. It was the only album that saw contributions from Salih and Thomas as they left the band in 2011.