Tyler Joseph
Tyler Joseph is the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in Twenty One Pilots, making songs that bring rap, rock and piano pop into conversations about fear, faith and finding your way.
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Known for
Album
Music video
Suicide Squad
Music video
AlbumOverview
- From
- Columbus, Ohio, United States
- Born
- December 1, 1988
- Work
- Singer, rapper, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer
- Band
- Twenty One Pilots, with drummer Josh Dun
- Started
- Formed Twenty One Pilots in Columbus in 2009
- Breakout
- Blurryface (2015), including “Stressed Out” and “Ride”
Mini bio
How it started.
Tyler grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and taught himself to play keyboards. He began recording music before forming Twenty One Pilots in 2009. Josh Dun joined in 2011, and the pair built their audience through local shows and videos shared online.
Finding their audience.
Vessel became the duo’s major-label debut in 2013, mixing piano, ukulele, rap and electronic textures. Blurryface followed in 2015 and became their first US No. 1 album. “Stressed Out” and “Ride” brought that sound to the Billboard Hot 100’s top five.
Songs with room for difficult feelings.
Tyler has described his early songwriting as something closer to a private journal. That openness became central to the band, with songs about experiences that can be hard to discuss aloud. He and Josh also worked with Tyler’s former roommate Mark C. Eshleman on videos before they had a record deal.
Where the story went.
Across Blurryface, Trench, Scaled and Icy, Clancy and Breach, the band built a fictional world around characters including Clancy and the Torchbearer. Breach brought that decade of storytelling to its conclusion in 2025. Their Mexico City concert then became both a film and a live album in 2026.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2026More Than We Ever Imagined (Live in Mexico City)Performer with Twenty One Pilots
- 2025BreachVocalist with Twenty One Pilots
- 2024The Line, from Arcane season 2Songwriter and vocalist
- 2016Heathens, from Suicide Squad: The AlbumVocalist with Twenty One Pilots
- 2015Stressed OutSinger and songwriter
- 2013Screen, from VesselSongwriter; vocals, piano and ukulele; additional producer
Awards
Quotes
It was more of a journal or a diary than anything.Tyler Joseph, EARMILK interview
In a June 2015 interview, Tyler explained how personal his songwriting was before he knew other people would hear it.
Trivia
- He took the band’s name from Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons, which he studied in college.
- He named Death Cab for Cutie and Sigur Rós among his favorite bands for lyrics in a 2015 interview.
- Tyler and Josh accepted their 2017 Grammy in their underwear, keeping a promise they had made while watching the awards together before they were famous.
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