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Timothy McSharry Huber (born October 7, 2005), professionally known as Ghost Blade, is an American musician and composer.
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| Birth name | Timothy McSharry Huber |
| Born | October 7, 2005 New York City, New York, U.S.A. |
| Origin | Queens, New York, U.S.A |
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| Years active | 2019-present |
| Labels | Independent |
Early life
Timothy McSharry Huber was born in New York City, New York, U.S.A. on October 7, 2005. He lived in the New York borough of Queens for the entirety of his early life.
He is the son of an Irish-American mother and an American father who is of Irish, British Isles, German, French Canadian, and Swedish descent. He has stated that the majority of his maternal Irish ancestry is from the Connacht province and also has a great-grandparent from the Dublin area. All four of his maternal great-grandparents were Irish immigrants who settled in New York City during the early 1900s. His maternal grandparents were the first generation of his mother's family to be born in the United States. He has stated that his father's side is a more complex combination of recent and older immigrants to the United States from various places, with the greatest portion of his father's ancestors coming from Ireland, with his paternal grandmother having an Irish maiden name. Huber was raised and remains a practicing Catholic. His confirmation name is his father's first name, which he states was inspired by his father's own confirmation name being the first name of his father/Huber's paternal grandfather.
Huber first started making music using GarageBand in the seventh grade and began using FL Studio during his freshman year of high school. After switching to FL he would learn various music skills including music theory, music production, how to play keyboard instruments, how to compose music and lyrics, vocals, and audio engineering. Between seventh grade and the end of his senior year of high school between the years 2017 to 2023 he released music under a variety of aliases across different internet platforms and streaming services. He began using the Ghost Blade name as his primary musical alias in late 2023.
Career
First releases as Ghost Blade (2024)
In January 2024, he released his debut album as Ghost Blade called Ignite. The majority of the album was self-produced, with additional production from DefWish, Cymatics, and ProdPackie on various songs. Ghost also performed piano on one of the album's songs, "Awaken".
In March 2024, he released the album Teacht Chun Cinn. The album's title is in Irish with an English translation of "to come to a head" or "to emerge". He composed and performed all the instrumentation and vocals of the album, as well as self-producing the album.
In May 2024 he released the album Sonics, which he self-produced, composed, engineered and performed synthesizers, pianos, and vocals. It was mainly instrumental, but did feature lyric-less/wordless vocals on the outro.
In July 2024, he released the album Only1Blade in collaboration with producer Only1Flavy. The album title is a portmanteau of the collaborators' names. Flavy produced the album and performed and composed all of the album's instrumentals. The album title is a portmanteau of the collaborators' names. Ghost wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals while also engineering the project. He also added additional instrumentation and production to two of the songs.
In August 2024, he released two albums: VANGUARD and INTRAPERSONAL IDEAS. The former is an album mainly drawing elements from various electronic genres which Ghost Blade performed analog/live synthesizers and vocals on while also producing, composing/writing, and engineering the entirety of the album. The latter is an 8-song album featuring four solo piano compositions performed and composed by Ghost Blade and four songs with piano and vocals both performed by Ghost Blade. He also produced and engineered the entire project.
His next album, Cobalt, is scheduled to release December 1, 2024. It will mainly be an instrumental project and will consist of 20 songs.
Upcoming Work (2025)
Ghost Blade announced that he will concurrently begin working on two different albums in December of 2024 and plans to release them sometime in early 2025.
Life outside music
Outside of music, he has stated that one of his interests has been training in different kinds of martial arts/hand-to-hand combat. He has stated that he studied numerous kinds of striking combat styles between the ages of 7 and 14 between late 2013 to early 2020, with these being karate, kickboxing, and boxing and took a four year hiatus from the age of 14 to 18 between early 2020 and mid 2024. He has stated that he resumed training in the spring of 2024 in his first year of university after a friend he met there taught him the basics of BJJ and grappling. He stated that he began to relearn striking and kickboxing techniques over the summer and upon his return in the fall of 2024, he formally began learning grappling in a martial arts gym in the vicinity of his university while continuing to train with his friend, who he would also begin learning judo from as well as fighting against each other in a pseudo-MMA fashion where he was able to start using his striking techniques again in a live situation.