Tedy

Montreal-based Singer, Tedy Releases His Debut EP Boys Don’t Cry

By Deshaun Phillips Canadian pop performer, Tedy, has just released his debut EP, Boys Don’t Cry thru Sony Music Entertainment Canada. Originally from Haiti, this Montreal based singersongwriter has crafted together a six-song EP that, he says, “tackled themes of trauma.” The new EP deals with his struggles in the LGBTQ+ community and deals also with his masculinity. The songs “Boys Don’t Cry,” “Fireworks,” “Hopeless,” “Stuck,” “Twisted,” and “War” that he personally selected for this first release are somewhat dark and soulful, filled with his distinctive and he confronts them. And then the video vocal style coupled with pop sensibilities. ends. Tedy is obviously dealing with a lot of “I think this EP will help a lot of self-doubt here before he finally grabs hold of people, just like it helped me. It’s an extreme himself. The video offers up a powerful view emotional roller-coaster that is definitely of a man trying to deal with his inner demons worth the ride,” says Tedy. to finally have him prevail at the end. This whole experience has been The 28-year-old Montreal transplant somewhat traumatic to Tedy as prior to the has been creating quite a following for release of the single, “Boys Don’t Cry,” he himself. His Tik Tok following has risen to came out to all his fans on Tik Tok just before an amazing 817.9 thousand followers with he released the video for this song. 39.9 million likes since just last April. He The emotionally charged video for this has also acquired 190 thousand listeners on song is certainly intense and open to Spotify, not to mention his Instagram interpretation. The video starts off with Tedy followers have doubled. Not bad for a young confined to a chair with a noose around his man who just made his first major label deal. neck dealing with spiders crawling on him. This isn’t Tedy’s first rodeo either. He He seems to be a bit tormented by his inner released a couple of singles back in February demons as a young boy with an ice cream of 2016 that did quite well for him also. cone approaches him only to have it grabbed Those are “Can I,” which went on to and thrown away by someone who is accumulate 5.4 million streams on Spotify probably the father of the boy. Finally and “Hold On Tighter” which was released in another youth comes up and removes the 2018 and has streamed over 2.2 million times noose from Tedy’s neck. All of a sudden of Spotify. Tedy is suddenly attached and beaten by Be sure to check out Tedy’s new EP, another man as he sings, “There’s no place to Boys Don’t Cry on Sony Music Entertainment run.” There is a hell of a lot of symbolism Canada today. And be sure to watch his new going on in this video as Tedy tries to deal video for “Boys Don’t Cry” when you get the with his inner fears. Finally after a gang of chance. Both the EP and the video are very four young men approach him menacingly, powerful statements about the struggles he and he manages to slip out of his restraints has been going through. October 2020 • Rock and Blues International 45