Nashville resident and Ontario, Canada native Tebey is a platinum selling artist, award-winning producer and accomplished songwriter with multiple #1 songs in his repertoire of hits. His much-mispronounced name (read: TAY-bay) is of Nigerian descent – his father’s birthplace, but Tebey grew up in the small town of Peterborough and went to high school in Burlington. While enjoying simultaneous success on the football field, he and his father made the decision to move to Nashville in his mid-teens to pursue his music career, while his mother stayed back in Canada to care for Tebey’s brother and sister. This bold move paid off when Tebey signed to BNA Records Nashville (RCA Label Group) in 2002.    

 After a brief period in the recording industry, Tebey pivoted to writing throughout the early 2000’s and only in 2012 did he start to shift the focus back to his artist career. Not a year went by when he didn’t have a top charting radio song, he really hit his stride in 2018 with a series of significant successes including three #1 songs as a writer: a US Billboard #1 with Justin Moore’s “Somebody Else Will”; a Canadian #1 with Gord Bamford’s “Dive Bar” and his first #1 as an artist and writer with his GOLD single “Who’s Gonna Love You,” for which he also received a SOCAN award in March 2019. He also co-wrote two additional top 5 radio hits during this timeframe - “Denim on Denim” (certified Platinum) and “Good Jeans”. Overall, Tebey has four official Top 5 radio singles, four Top 10 singles, and five Top 20 singles as a recording artist, and his music and videos have amassed over 115 million streams.    

As a songwriter, Tebey has earned success on multiple continents with the aforementioned #1 chart toppers; one in the US (Justin Moore), one in the UK (Pixie Lott – All About Tonight, also nominated for a Brit Award), and the remainder in Canada. Notable pop artists to have recorded his songs include One Direction, Fifth Harmony, Pixie Lott, Cher, FLO RIDA and Smashmouth and, no stranger to the country genre, Justin Moore, Big & Rich, Jimmy Rankin, Emerson Drive and many others all released Tebey-penned tunes. In 2022 Joe Nichols released his song “I Got Friends That Do” featuring Blake Shelton; written by Tebey, Danick Dupelle and Jimmy Thow.    

Back on the artists side of things, over the past ten years, three of Tebey’s singles have been noted for their substantial spin count, being named Mediabase or BDS “Most Played Canadian Country Song” of both 2013 and 2014 (‘Somewhere in the Country’ and ‘Wake Me Up’), and his Platinum-certified hit, “Denim on Denim”, was the third highest spinning song of 2018 in this category.     

Tebey’s 2021 album, “The Good Ones,” is his most successful full-length release to date. The Gold certified title track from the album featuring Marie Mai reached Top Ten at radio and was performed on the CCMA Broadcast by the duo in 2020. Rolling Stone Magazine reviewed the song calling it, "A powerhouse power ballad, ‘The Good Ones’ would've aced all its exams at the ‘Lady A School of Country Hit-Making”. His 2nd single off the album, ‘Happened on a Saturday Night,’ reached Top 10 at national radio and was certified Gold; ‘Shotgun Rider’ also reached the Top 10 at Canadian radio. His single ‘Song of the Summer’ with Irish Superstar Una Healy was featured on BBC Radio2 and made national UK playlists. To wrap up 2021, Tebey released a cover of the classic Darlene Love Christmas hit, ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’, accruing over 1.6 million streams and marking his first holiday offering.  

Tebey’s 2022 EP “Sink with the Sun” included the first single from the project “What Was I Drinking”, which has accumulated over 4.7 million streams to date, and the title track, “Sink with the Sun” which has garnered over 3.9 million streams to date. Tebey’s first single of 2024, “Hold Your Horses”, was released on January 19th and is closing in on 2M streams.  

More excitement unfolded in March of 2024, when Tebey’s cover of The Weeknd’s ‘Blinding Lights’ blew up on TikTok getting millions of views in one day. Capitalizing on this success, a full-length cover was released to DSPs on March 9, 2024, earning over 3 million streams over the first month of its release, and now over 10 million. The song has been featured on Spotify’s “Viral Top 50” in six countries, reached number 33 on Shazam’s Global Country Chart, and charted on Apple Music’s Country Chart in 88 countries. The original TikTok video has been viewed over 13.6 million times and over 75 million views over all original videos featuring the song. Tebey followed up with a fantastic country cover of Drake’s “Hold On, We’re Going Home” with over16 million views across his original posts on TikTok and Instagram.  

Tebey has had two headline tours across Canada - The Good Ones Tour (2020), and the Shotgun Rider Tour (2022).  In the fall of 2019, Tebey performed his first international tour dates as part of Country Music Week, which took him to Berlin, Cologne and London. He returned for the illustrious C2C festival in Berlin and London in early 2020. Tebey returned to Europe/UK to headline the Buckle & Boots Festival in Manchester, along with dates in London and Hamburg. In March 2022, Tebey was in London for the C2C festival where he played 5 capacity shows and co-hosted the Bob Harris Country Show LIVE on BBC Radio2.  He also performed at the 2022 CMAFest in Nashville. Once again, Tebey hosted a BBC Radio2 show backstage at Nissan Stadium, this time on his own, interviewing main stage artists such as Thomas Rhett, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, Cole Swindell, Lainey Wilson, and more! Tebey continued the second leg of his Shotgun Rider Tour in February 2023 across Ontario and Quebec.  

Outside of music, Tebey has a deep passion advocating for mental health care. Tebey hosts his annual ‘Tebey Golf Classic’ fundraiser in Peterborough, ON in support of local Youth Mental Health programs. Tebey’s efforts have raised over $275,000 to date, and his sold-out upcoming 8th annual tournament took place in June 2024.

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