Due Voci - About Tyler Hamilton

About Tyler Hamilton

I was born and raised in Canada, the youngest of two boys and the son of hard-working folks. We didn’t have much but we did have love and we had the support of parents who would stop at nothing to encourage our talents.

From my earliest recollections I remember my mother working two, and even three jobs just to make ends meet. I can say I was truly blessed from those humble beginnings to have parents who not only loved, but believed in us. My mother saw the music side in me and did everything she could to encourage me. My dad, the athletic and strong figure, got us boys involved in sports, and we played most everything --- basketball, volley-ball, soccer, and baseball, but with a particular emphasis on football, my dad’s sport of choice. My folks took us everywhere and anywhere, trying to help us reach our dreams, and constantly pushing ahead even when I’m sure they had no energy left.

Music has always been a huge part of my life and what I’ve always loved doing most. To think that I could, through a song, bring a smile to someone’s face, a spring to their step, or renewed courage to their heart is for me, the greatest joy in the world. I am blessed with the countless opportunities and doors that have opened since I first stood on that stage as a 5 year old boy to give a performance that would ignite something in my heart and become the beginning of a long and exciting journey. A dream had been born that day. And with every dream comes a journey of joy and struggle. It’s not been an easy road and, for me, the fact things have not come easy has been one of life’s deepest blessings, for it has taught me what it means to persevere, to have faith, and to keep moving forward no matter what forces seem against me.

My heart was always to sing. And so I sang in choirs, musicals, pageants, government functions, symphony orchestras, music festivals, major sporting events, you name it. Each step prepared me for the next. I was invited to play the lead role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical, Oklahoma.

I owe my most recent leg of my journey to David Foster who, after hearing me sing, invited me to perform ‘The Prayer’ with rising star, Charice Pempengco at the David Foster & Friends Charity Fundraiser, and then again later to perform with Katherine McPhee. To be affirmed by the hit-man himself, David Foster, was unbelievable and made the past years of hard work and hanging tight to that dream, so very worthwhile!

But little did I know this was just to be the beginning. When David Foster later introduced me to Diane Warren…. The Diane Warren… the absolute greatest songwriter and hitmaker of all times… and someone I’d held in high esteem over the years…. well, all I can say is I have yet to come back to terra firma. I sang for Diane Warren at what was undoubtedly my toughest audition yet. She loved what she heard, offered me the greatest opportunity ever to become a part of Due Voci, a romantic duo with the amazing Kelly Levesque, and the rest is now history.

Updated: March 23, 2010 3:32 pm