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Tyus Harshaw

Tyus Vershawn Harshaw (Born February 3rd 1995), is an American singer-songwriter and Musician. Born in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, Raised in Minnesota, he moved to Watford and then to Los California to pursue a music career. In Early 2009, he started posting youtube videos to his channel of Macklemore's "Same Love" and Taylor Swift's ft. Ed Sheeran "Everything has Changed" and many more covers that got some attention with more than a few thousand views that made him want to start writing his own music for his fans to hear. Although still pursuing a long career ahead of him, Tyus has performed in front of crowds of 400-600 at local open mic nights.

Early life and career start
Harshaw was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, where he lived until age 4, then to move to Watford, where he lived with his mother and father until age 10, then eventually moving to Minnesota until age 18, and finally moving to Los, Angeles later that year at age 18. His Father, Quintin Harshaw a manager for the big name Walmart. His Mother a doctor specialist for the Mayo Clinic Hospital had 3 children, 2 sons and a daughter. Harshaw being the middle child, and older brother of 22, and sister of 3. His parents being married for 25 years, Harshaw began music at an early age of 4 in his choir in elementary school. He did several plays and music theater that had shaped his sound of music that it is today. Coming from a very musical mother who was in a band for 7 years had shown Tyus how to play a piano and guitar then eventually learning how to play both instruments. Harshaw grew up as Baptist and sang for his local church, at age 12 he had joined the church choir. At age 13 he had gotten his first guitar for Christmas where he started writing songs in his middle school bathroom. His early childhood inspirations were Michael Jackson, The Beatles, The Killers, Radiohead, Eminem.

=Present Day 2014-2015= Tyus has been under management teams in Los Angeles trying to push his debut album "Going Nowhere Fast". The project began in 2013 and is a still ongoing project today. In 2014, Tyus was nominated for a short award for best in social media from people following his music and twitter handle. It's expected for his debut album to release in late 2015 but the sources are unconfirmed. He hopes to release new music for this upcoming year that's going to make people want to listen. Currently Tyus is a college student studying Information Technology at American Intercontinental University.