Andrew Hyatt
Andrew Hyatt is a Canadian country singer-songwriter from Sudbury, Ontario, most noted as a CCMA winner for Rising Star of the Year at the 2022 Canadian Country Music Awards. He has released one studio album Iron & Ashes, and seven extended plays, and has charted multiple top twenty singles on the Billboard Canada Country chart, including "Neverland".
Biography
After finishing high school, Hyatt briefly worked as a youth pastor at a church. He then worked as an iron worker at a nickel mine in his hometown of Sudbury for three years. After leaving that job, Hyatt went to school for record production, then enrolled at a school for policing. In his late teens and early twenties, he performed in a Christian rock band. After the band broke up, Hyatt began a solo career and released his debut EP Never Back Down in 2015 on Wax Records.Hyatt released his full-length debut album Iron & Ashes in May 2017. The album included his first charting single "On Me". In late 2017, he signed with 604 Records and released the single "Do It With You", which later became his first top ten single on the Billboard Canada Country airplay chart. Hyatt won the SiriusXM "Top of the Country" competition. He received three nominations at the Country Music Association of Ontario awards in 2018, for Male Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Rising Star of the Year. Hyatt released the companion EPs Cain in 2018 and Abel in 2019. Hyatt supported the EPs by touring as an opening act for Dean Brody and Tim Hicks.
In 2020, Hyatt had begun a 36-date tour opening for Gord Bamford when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the tour. He turned to further recording, releasing the EP Neverland in 2020. It included the singles "Didn't Know Me", "I Needed That", and "Neverland", the latter of which became Hyatt's first song to chart on the all-genre Canadian Hot 100. In 2021, he released The Wanderspace Sessions featuring three stripped-down versions of his singles. That year, he also released the EP Wild Flowers, which was the follow-up to Neverland. He was a nominee for "Rising Star" at the 2021 Canadian Country Music Awards.
In 2022, Hyatt released the EP Four Good Years. It was subsequently nominated for "Album of the Year" at the 2023 Canadian Country Music Awards. In January 2024, he released the EP L Is For. In the spring of 2024, Hyatt embarked on "The Country Mixtape Tour" across Canada as a co-headliner alongside Shawn Austin and Tyler Joe Miller.
In February 2025, Hyatt released the song "Between the Lines", part of an EP titled "Andrew Hyatt and the Ten Year War". He embarked on a headlining tour of the same name in Ontario in March 2025. Hyatt received nominations for four awards at the 2025 CMAOntario Awards, including Male Artist of the Year.