Background
Thristan "Tum-Tum" Mendoza was born 1989 in Quezon City, Philippines.
Thristan "Tum-Tum" Mendoza was born 1989 in Quezon City, Philippines.
He was enrolled at the Philippine Montessori Center and was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two and a half. During the same year he began to play. In 1997 the University of the Philippines presented him as a gifted child prodigy.
He is now a college student majoring in percussion.
He has three siblings (Rainier, Victoria Angela, Victorina Francesca).