Interview with Tebey

Published: June 18, 2014, 11 p.m.

Burlington, Ontario Country artist\xa0TEBEY - now living in Nashville - first found success on Country radio back in 2002 with his single We Shook Hands (Man To Man).\xa0He\xa0was recognized with a Canadian Radio Music Award nomination for Best New Male Country Artist, a CMT special documenting his development as an artist and a segment on CBC Radio\u2019s \u2018Sounds Like Canada.\u2019 The single reached # 3 in Canada and went top 40 in the U.S. but RCA didn't release the album (which featured the single) because the song didn't break the top 20. Determined to not let that setback end his music career, Tebey\xa0focused on his skills as a songwriter\xa0and soon found his songs being recorded by various artists\n\nOver the years, his songs have been recorded by\xa0Emerson Drive, Doc Walker, Jason Blaine, Chad Brownlee, Aaron Pritchett, and Big & Rich - among others. He has also had\xa0his songs recorded outside the country genre, by pop acts like One Direction, Shawn Desman and Cher. Over the last couple of years, Tebey's own albums have had great success at country radio: The Wait in 2012 featuring the single Somewhere In The Country and Two in 2014 featuring his cover of Wake Me Up and his own songs Till It's Gone & Let It Down. He recently won a CMAO (Country Music Association of Ontario) Award for Record Producer of The Year - along with producer\xa0Jason Barry - for The Wait. Tebey has just released a brand new single to radio called called Now I Do.