“Growing up around the house, I remember hearing a lot of classic country:
George Jones, Hank Williams (Sr. and Jr.), Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and Ernest Tubb.
Going to my grandpa’s house is where the Cajun and Folk influences came from.
He was a fantastic fiddle and harmonica player.
But when we left the house, it was Led Zeppelin, Toto, and Steely Dan.
Everybody was into classic rock, and it was good!”
Tyron recalls, “I remember the first record I ever owned.
It was a Ray Charles album.
I must have been around 10 years old.
Even when sharing a record player with three other brothers, or when the player finally broke, I just remember holding onto it, hiding it, like it was a piece of treasure.
Little did I know how valuable it really was in terms of musical influence.
I wouldn’t realize that ’til much later in life, but looking back, it never left me, holding onto that record, even when I couldn’t play it.
Ray Charles is still one of my all-time favorites.”
Tyron had other obligations before focusing on music in his adult life – including a combat tour as a US Marine in Operation Desert Storm.
Serving the country put distance between Tyron and a career in show business, but once he returned home, he moved to New York City to study acting.
It was in his small West Village apartment where the idea of playing music was history.”
Tyron is firmly at home now, with a growing list of gigs, venues, and festivals where he can be seen and heard.
He has released the album, “Waiting on Friday,” in May of 2022 and has just finished up his next album with some of the best studio masters in the business.
Since the beginning of 2023, Tyron and the band have played the French Quarter Fest and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, One Square Mile Music Festival in Texas, Sunbanks Music Festival in Washington State, the Silver City Blues Festival in New Mexico, and a wide array of other dates and locations…
The response – from the sound crews to the talent buyers and festival organizers, to the crowds – has been overwhelming!