Tiffany was born in Wilkes-Barre, PA on October 25, 1980. She is the oldest of four children (all girls). She got her earliest influences in music from her grandparents who were both musicians. Throughout the years, she picked up several musical instruments including the piano, accoustic guitar, and accordian. She would always spend hours as a child listening to music and singing in her room. She began studying dance at the age of three (tap and ballet; she picked up jazz dance at the age of 7) with Kathy Burke (niece of famed dancer/actor, Gene Kelly) and continued to study throughout school and into college (later picking up modern dance, lyrical dance, and hip hop dance).
At age 11, she had to sing a solo for a tap number she was doing for a dance recital. Most who heard her sing for the first time where genuinly impressed and suggested to her mother to enroll Tiffany in vocal lessons. Tiffany began her
Voice lessons at the age of 12 and performed in several vocal recitals, concerts, and choirs. She also began peruing another passion of hers which was musical theatre. At age 13, she attended the Encore Music Camp of Pennsylvania at Wilkes University located in Wilkes-Barre, PA for a full summer where she majored in Musica Theatre. She greatly enjoyed the classes which consisted of musical repretoire classes, solfegio classes, vocal theory classes, acting while singing, and acting classes. She enjoyed performing in the camp's productions even more which included an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical revue and a shakespearean play. She continued to study at ?Wilkes University throughout the school year at Wilkes Community Conservatory, the fall and
Winter version of 'Encore.' That included acting classes, private
Voice lessons, concert choir, and a musical theatre class all geared toward high school students. She studied
Voice with accomplished opera vocalist, Eileen Hanisch. She also had some music studies with Alan Baker and Sue Kelly. Along with performing with the Conservatory, he also began performing in local theatre companies including the Music Box Dinner Playhouse, and The Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre. She also had opera roles. The summer before her senior year of high school, she attended the prestigious pre-college program at Carnegie Mellon Universtiy in Pittsburgh, PA where she majored in Musical Theatre. After graduating high school in June of 1998, she moved with her family to Pittsburgh, PA. That fall, she attended Seton Hill University and majored in musical theatre. She quickly got involved with the Pittsburgh theatre scene. After she finished filming the role, she returned to theatre. She auditioned for a new production entitled Whispers Want to Holler at the Kuntu Repretory Theatre, a multicultural theatre group. She won the titled of the Free Style Jazz Singer. This role presented Tiffany with the challenge of singing in a style different than what she had been trained to do, but she took it head on. She played in the world premiere of Whispers Want to Holler. After that, she played the role of Brenda in the play Lovers and Other Strangers with Stage Right. During production for Lovers, she auditioned for the
Old Schoolhouse Players upcoming production of Fiddler on the Roof. Once
Again, she won a much sought after role; the part of Hodel , Tevye's second daughter. After Fiddler wrapped, she continued to do theatre roles including
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ed Wood Slept Here and Falsettos. She also became involved with children's theatre at The Gemini Theatre. . SJason was a film composer and had played in bands for 23 years since age 14.
Jason had been interested in using Tiffany's operatic vocals in some film scores, but instead they began to work on music which would later become music for her debut album. They recorded much of the album on there home studio equipment self producing sometimes with the help of friends and musicians, Mark Kapsha and Michael Jantho. Toward the end of recording the album, they met Rowan Poole of the internationally acclaimed prog rock band, Persephone's Dream. They ended up recording the last three tracks at Rowen's studio, StarGlider Studios. Tiffany's debut album ' Poet', was released on February 26, 2008.