Tim Hicks: Tyler Shaw

Tyler Shaw: A year and a half ago Shaw took a huge gamble, leaving school and his hometown of Vancouver to make a music career in Toronto, according to The Star. Brett Kissel, Florence K, Tim Hicks and Wake Owl were the other breakthrough nominees in the passel of names announced Tuesday and Twenty-year-old Tyler Shaw immediately texted his younger brother when he got the news he was nominated for a Juno Award as Breakthrough Artist of the Year. This is pretty cool, I m pretty excited about it, said Shaw, radiating enthusiasm in the crowded media scrum following Tuesdays announcement of this years Juno nominees. He calls his music organic pop, relying on instruments rather than studio pyrotechnics for his sound on songs such as Kiss Goodnight. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.