Ian Blackwood (born August 12, 1982) is a

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photographer, musician/producer, and actor known for being the vocalist/guitarist of the now defunct Toronto-based punk rock band The Artist Life, and for playing Kyle Bateman on the CTV teen hit ''

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''. Past musical projects also include the bands The Posts,

The Artist Life The Artist Life was a Canadian pop punk band from Burlington, Ontario, signed to Underground Operations. History The Artist Life was started in 2005 by Ian Blackwood (formerly of Jersey, on vocals and guitar, and Dean Richards (formerly of Fal ...

and This is the Noise. Blackwood was also a technician for the band, Walk Off The Earth. Blackwood has been a member of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Arts

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for over a decade and has been seen on many television and film productions such as

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(TVO), Heroes Reborn (NBC),

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(Syfy),

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(CTV/EPITOME) and V Morgan Is Dead (

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). He has also been featured in many Canadian and American commercial advertisements. He was the face of RBC

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for their "Someday" and "Not Business As Usual" campaigns
RBC Brewery Ad
and had a podcast calle
Ian Blackwood Talks Smack
He owns a private recording studio called LimeGreen Studio in

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, Ontario and has written music for CBC and its affiliate kids channel,

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. He also recorded and mixed

Sarah Blackwood Sarah Blackwood (born 6 May 1971) is an English recording artist. She came to prominence as the lead singer of Dubstar, and as Client B in the band Client. Career Blackwood was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, attended a local school, a ...

's first solo album ''Way Back Home'' among other projects. Blackwood started playing guitar at the age of 11, originally taught by his father Michael Blackwood. He started his first band at age 14. Blackwood grew up in the Greater Toronto Area (905) underground music scene playing in many bands, most notably as a drummer for

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, a guitarist for The Fullblast, vocalist and guitarist for The Artist Life, and guitar and backup vocals for Always Outnumbered.The Fullblast Revisited: One Last Hurrah at the Opera House
/ref> Blackwood graduated from Lord Elgin High School (which has since changed its name to Robert Bateman) in June 2000, and attended

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in North Vancouver B.C. but left after one semester of studying film productions/screen writing and acting. Blackwood is the brother of former

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lead singer and current Walk Off The Earth member Sarah Blackwood, as well as Jen Blackwood who is also a former vocalist for

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blackwood, Ian 1982 births Living people People from Burlington, Ontario Canadian male television actors Canadian rock musicians Male actors from Ontario Musicians from Ontario