Calum Hood

 Calum Thomas Hood was born on the 25th of January 1996. He was raised in Mount Druitt, New South Wales. The father of Calum Hood is David Hood and his mother Joy Hood worked in superannuation. [6] Through his father Hood claims Scottish descent as well as through his mother, he claims Cook Island Maori origins. Hood is the son of singer-songwriter Mali-Koa. Hood recalls his upbringing to be "middle-class" and "not the most glamorous lifestyle". Hood attended Norwest Primary School, where the band mate he would later become was Michael Clifford. In high school, Hood attended Norwest Christian College where he befriended the future bandmate Luke Hemmings in Year 7 after they performed the Secondhand Serenade cover at a school talent show.Throughout his early childhood and teens, Hood took a keen fascination with sports, specifically football (soccer) and soccer, which he had an "promising future" in and visited a Brazil training camp for, in order to pursue the sport as a career. However, because of the band's departure to London in 2012, Hood made the decision to quit playing football to pursue a career in music. Hood later said that he was informed by his parents that he should stopped playing football after about one month. They thought he was making the worst choices of his life. My mum threw out everything in my closet. I left [...] being me, it was one of my most difficult choices. It's all worked out now" When he finished the 12th year of high school, he made the decision to end his football career and dropped out of high school in the year 2012.