Colorado songwriter, Tim Hanauer, has always been fascinated with music. He experimented with the piano, the drums, and the saxophone before picking up a guitar. “When I was 16, my little sister got a guitar for her birthday. I was extremely jealous. I played it until it broke,” Tim says. He finally received his own guitar when he graduated from high school. He wrote his first song that same day. “I took a year off after high school and did little but write and play guitar,” he says. Tim studied Creative Writing at Colorado State University, earning his bachelors in 2001. Later, he went back to earn his teaching certification. “Teaching high school was a backup plan,” Tim admits. “That became clear when I had my first interview for a teaching job. The last question the interviewers asked was, ‘Where do you see yourself in 5 years?’ I froze. Since I was 16 all I’ve dreamt of is being a songwriter.”

Tim recorded his first record, Boomerang, in March 2006. Since the independent release, Tim has earned back-to-back Folks Songwriter awards from the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and an International Songwriting award. He has performed live on Denver's 9 News, at the Larimer County Fair, A Taste of Colorado, and at numerous colleges and venues in the region.

Boomerang has been named “Favorite acoustic-style CD of 2006,” by Rosalie Howarth, KFOG, San Francisco. While Tim has received airplay coast to coast on specialty shows like KFOG’s Acoustic Sunrise and Sunset and WTYD’s Playing in the Tide Pool, his biggest successes have been on the small screen. Tim is gaining international success through songs featured on CBS's The Ghost Whisperer, CW’s Joan of Arcadia, Lifetime’s Army Wives, ABC’s Lincoln Heights and Canadian Television’s Whistler.

Tim’s new record, Time for Change, dropped digitally on January 1, 2009. Since the release, Time for Change has been featured on episodes of The Ghost Whisperer and One Tree Hill. Tim's song, "Dream a better way," will be the end title theme in an upcoming film, "I Hate Valentine's Day," with Nia Vardalos and John Corbett.