Lyric Dubee Canada's Next SuperStar Only 16-years-old, Lyric Dubee released two fulllength albums and four singles from his 3rd album. He recently returned from Los Angeles where he recorded a fourth album with Multi-Grammy Award Producer, Warren Huart. Huart known for the soaring platinum winning and billboard albums for such bands as Aerosmith, The Fray, James Blunt, The X Factor to name a few. Currently managed by Robert Knight, legendary rock photographer who snapped photos from Jimmi Hendrix, Santana, Jeff Beck and the list goes on. While in California he met with Carlos Santana, Slash, Dirty Loops and John 5. With a name like Lyric, music flows through his veins. He created his own personalized style called “Revolution Rock”. “I study Jazz and classical, play rock, pop and blues and listen to metal so between all those genres it melted into one that became my identity which is Revolution Rock,” said Lyric. Born in Barrie, Lyric is a singer/songwriter, model, actor who holds a 2nd Degree Black Belt. He began his early musical career at the age of nine and by the time he was fifteen he released two fulllength albums. Lyric has played at benefit concerts and large music festivals such as the Canadian Music Week. His accolades include “2011 Best Young Songwriters Award” at the Barrie New Music Festival and “2014 Most Promising Youth Award” at the Barrie Arts Awards this past November. He wrote all of his own music and lyrics on his first and second albums.
Lyric draws his inspiration to write songs through books and movies. “I'm a big book worm. I read novels and study mythology; Egyptian, Roman, Greek etc. Movies and books are my two biggest inspirations,” said Lyric. As far as artist influences he relates to John Mayer and Santana. “John Mayer does a wide variety styles the wrap he moves about. Santana and John Mayer although you won't always hear it in my music that I play that's where I draw the biggest inspirations from tone and lead guitar playing. Especially Santana if I could relate myself to one player I'd say I sound the most like him because how mellow he can play at times and not having to worry about over doing everything. It's a really nice change,” expressed Lyric Having the pleasure of opening for Walk Off the Earth, Lee Aaron, Jim Cuddy and David Usher high on his wish list is to tour in Japan. Lyric spends a fair amount of travelling and it's one place he hasn't seen yet. “I like the culture. A lot of friends had success and it's a must see,” said Lyric. With music taking up 80% of his time not much is left for socializing. “When you do something you love it's a great way to spend it. If I choose one thing to do for the rest of my life it would be music”. Fourth album set for release in the coming month. For more information visit lyricdubee.com or Facebook page. Dianna Chycki is host of Beach Corner and Co-chair of the Wasaga Beach Short Film Festival. Beach Corner broadcast weekly Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on www.beachboosterradio.com.