Long before singing to stadiums filled with thousands of fans, Matt Healy was a young boy growing up in Newcastle, England. This northeastern city is a long way from London, where Healy was born, and by age 10, he and his family moved to Manchester. Entertaining is in his blood, as both his mom Denise Welch and his dad Tim Healy were actors. Yet, young Healy remembers his family friends included a wide range of professions, including welders. In his opinion, as he told Clash Music, becoming a rock star was “partially to do with the creative environment I was brought up in.”
Healy also has a complicated relationship with his upbringing. For example, the band wrote many of their songs at Healy’s parents’ house while he was still living with them. Then, as he explained to the Belfast Telegraph in 2013, “they separated and sold the house. I moved out this morning so I’m now technically homeless.” Healy also admitted that his parents separated at a pivotal moment for the band. “We’ve got a massive tour coming up and an album to release, but at the same time I’ve nowhere to live properly and my family isn’t the same as it was,” he explained.
That same year, he was also coping with the death of his grandmother, “whom I was really close to, earlier this year, and I’ve been trying to finish a song, but I can’t because I keep crying writing it,” Healy told The Herald.
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