Timothy Torres, known professionally as Timmy T, was born on September 21, 1967, in Fresno, California. He began his career in the 1980s performing with small rap groups but soon shifted to dance music. After recording his debut single, "Time After Time" in his garage using a Moog synthesizer and a Roland TR-808 drum machine, he gained local radio airplay, taking his music to Los Angeles. In 1990, Timmy T signed with Quality Records and released a studio version of "Time After Time", which peaked at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. His follow-up single, "One More Try", reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991 and sold over a million copies, propelling his debut album, Time After Time, to number 46 on the Billboard 200. His second album, All for Love, was released in 1992 and featured the single "Over You", which gained prominence through its inclusion in the film The Raffle. Timmy T took a break from the music industry in 1993 to focus on his family but returned with the compilation album One More Try: The Collection in 2006.
