For over four decades, Ty Hager has been making people laugh.  Sometimes he makes them think too...but mostly laugh.  He began as a stand-up comic in Nashville in the late 80's (even appearing on national TV), then turned his focus to songwriting - albeit much of it goofy songwriting.  He struggled at that for twenty years - writing hundreds of songs and playing hundreds of shows - before landing a deal with Winthrop Records in 2002.  He recorded two CD's - Funny Ha Ha, Funny Strange and Songs About Life and Girls (but mostly girls) - over the next five years with Winthrop (getting some national airplay), then moved back to Oklahoma in 2008, where he spent the next years hosting morning radio shows, then producing and hosting a show on the American Forces Radio Network.  In 2012 he spent six months writing his first novel, Diary of a Dead Guy, about a murdered country singer channeling his memoirs through a 12-year-old redneck kid.  He also compiled transcripts of his interviews with hit country songwriters (from the aforementioned AFRN show) into Nashville Songsmiths, which is now also available as an audio book. 

In 2017, Ty completed the country opera adaptation of his novel (now being produced in Nashville as a CD). In addition, he began BARGAIN BANDSITES & BIOS, creating websites for other bands, songwriters, entertainers, and entrepreneurs. Since 2020, he has been ghostwriting nonfiction books and memoirs while working on a musical film adaptation of his novel.

The proud father of two beautiful daughters and Grandpa to three little princesses, Ty currently resides in northeastern Oklahoma.