Toby Mac Facts

  • Name: Kevin Michael McKeehan

  • Nickname: Toby

  • Born: Arlington, Virginia ; October 22, 1964

  • Currently Living In: Franklin, TN

  • Family: Mom, Dad (Kenneth F.), Wife (Amanda Jane)

  • Five Children: Son (Truett Foster, 9-4-98, Leo McKeehan, 11-02-04, Judah born 2006)

  • Toby and Amanda have two adopted children Mosses and Marlee, Adopted 2002


    Favorites:

  • Movie Dialogue: Cool Hand Luke "What we have here is a failure to communicate"

  • Bible Passage: Isaiah 43:19

  • Pig-out food: popcorn

  • Book: Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest"

  • Movie: No Way Out

  • Albums: Sade, "Stronger than Pride" and Larry Norman, "Only Visiting This Planet"

  • Hymn: "It is Well"

  • Food: Tabouli

  • TV show: Fat Albert

  • Color: Tattoo Green

  • Cities: Interlocken, Switzerland; Capetown, South Africa; Capri, Italy

  • Breakfast cereal: Cold- Honeycomb Warm- Cream of Wheat

  • Toy from childhood: Stretch Armstrong

  • Hangout: Tait's jacuzzi, Tower Records, House of Insomnia (studio)

  • Groups in High School: Run DMC, The Clash, U2


    Toby and Bandmates:

  • If Kevin were an animal, what would he be: a mongoose

  • If Michael were an animal, what would he be: Tyrannnosaurus Rex

  • If Michael weren't invloved in music, what would his occupation be: A lobbiest

  • If Kevin weren't invloved in music, what would his occupation be: Prince of Whales

  • What is your most overused verbal expression: Bottom Line

  • What is Michael's most overused verbal expression: I love you dude

  • What is Kevin's most overused verbal expression: Blickly

  • Which one of you would be most likely to sleep through an alien abduction: Myself

  • Who do you think acts more like a kid: Michael, Kevin sometimes


    Miscellaneous:

  • First job: Janitor (but I was crew chief)

  • Guilty pleasure: Hearing DC Talk on the radio

  • Best way to make you laugh: Obnoxious shock humor- which tends to get us in trouble

  • Most annoying habit: 1. Mid-sentence subject changes unbeknownst to the listening party

  • (the sign of a wondering mind) and 2. Trying on every t-shirt in the stack

  • (although they're identical size and color) because I'm

  • convinced they're each cut differently.

  • Thing you can't do to save your life: Tame the blond chaos on my head

  • First album you remember buying: Steve Miller Band,

  • "The Greatest Hits" and Kool & the Gang, "Ladies Night"

  • If they made a movie of your life, who should play you?: Steve McQueen

  • What would you like to be when you grow up: Sade's bassis

  • Best advice you've ever been given: Give up your right to yourself- Oswald tells me daily

  • You've been made President of the United States for a day. What are you going to do?:

  • Have a national day of repentance and forgiveness.

  • White Americans confess the racial sins of our past and African Americans

  • find it in their hearts to forgive us.

  • Word or phrase you most overuse: Ya know what I'm sayin'

  • Write your own epitaph: Here lies Toby Mac and he won't be back, for fact.

  • If you could be any kind of tree, what kind of tree would you be?:

  • The dogwood outside my window, because it makes Amanda smile.

  • Boxers of Briefs: Boxers

  • First movie you saw as a kid: Bedknobs and Broomsticks

  • If you were a hat or shoe, which would you be, and why:

  • Shoe, because Mike and Kevin walk over me.

  • Best way to make you laugh: Obnoxious shock humor- which tends to get us in trouble

  • Friends say He is: too serious

  • Worst advice ever recieved: Be independant

  • Role model: Oswald Chambers

  • Nobody knows I'm: Into alternative music

  • Groups he liked in High School: Run DMC, The Clash, U2

  • Something I always take on the road: a portable phone.