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Early Life
Canadian singer-songwriter and country artist Patrick James Clark was born March 11th1994. He grew up in a small farm town about an hour North of Toronto ON. He became interested in music at the age of six when he started taking drum lessons which he continued to take until the end of high school. When Clark entered the ninth grade he taught himself how to play guitar and started to write songs. Although, now performing as a country artist Clark’s biggest inspirtation growing up was John Mayer. Mayer’s music not only cemented Clark’s love for songwrting but also got him interested in applying to Berklee College of Music after graduation. Upon graduating high school in 2012 Clark was accepted into Mohawk College’s Jazz Preparatory Program as a drum major. After completing his program at Mohawk College in 2013 he was accepted into Berklee College of Music. Clark ultimately turned down his offer and enrolled in Berklee College of Music’s Online Songwriting Certificate Program. After receiving his certificate he took two years off from post-secondary education to work on his musical career. He then later enrolled in the Popular Music Studies Major at Western University in 2015 after declining a second acceptance to Berklee.

Music Career
In 2013 upon completing his certificate program with Berklee Online, Clark was offered a recording contract with Artist Accelerator an artist development company in Nashville TN. It was through Artist Accelerator that Clark released his debut E.P. Letters to Beatrice in 2014. Clark spent the next year performing across Southern Ontario promoting his album. In 2015 Clark parted ways with Artist Accelerator and released a new single Dashboard Drummer as an independent artist. Dashboard Drummer went on to garner internet, college and mainstream radio play. In December of 2017 Clark released a compilation album of the songs he’d been working on over the past two years and titled it Unreleased. Since Clark’s release of Dashboard Drummer in 2015 he has played over 250 shows across Ontario.

Letters to Beatrice
Letters to Beatrice is a five track E.P released in 2014 through Artist Accelerator. The title track Letters to Beatrice 1942 is a song written by Clark in memory of his grandparents. Upon the passing of Clark’s grandfather his family uncovered a box of over 2000 letters from WWII that his grandparents had written to each other. These letters served as the inspiration for the song.

The album is comprised of five tracks:



The album features Frank DeBretti on Guitar, Tim Denbo on Base, Johnny Rabb on drums, Tim Buppert on back-up vocals, Steven Byrom on Keyboards and was produced by Shane Adams. It was recorded and mixed by Kenny Varga at Soul Voltage Studios in Nashville TN.

Dashboard Drummer
Dashboard Drummer was Clark’s follow up to Letters to Beatrice and was released in 2015. The single was recorded in The Orange Lounge in Toronto ON and was produced by Tayo Jacob. The studio musicians used for this track were in-house musicians and the information was not made public.

Unreleased
After two years of compiling tracks, Clark released the latest installment to his musical repertoire Unreleased in December 2017. The album is comprised of seven tracks all produced by a company called Tune Designer based in Atlanta. A point of note on this album is the re-release of Clark's song Letters to Beatrice 1942. This was the first album that Clark didn’t record with a producer present and instead recorded the vocals separately in London ON and then sent them back to Atlanta to be mixed and mastered. The studio musicians used for this track were also in-house musicians and the information was not made public.

The album is comprised of seven tracks:

Awards

 * 2015 CBC Searchlight – Semi-finalist
 * 2017 CBC Searchlight – Semi-finalist