Ryan Paul "Ry" Bradley (born August 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

Early life

Ryan Paul Bradley was born on August 18, 1980. He was initially raised in Haleʻiwa, Hawaii, before moving with his family to

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. While in high school, he received scholarships to attend the

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, where he completed a bachelor's degree in Guitar Performance under the instruction of

John Schneiderman John H. Schneiderman is an American lutenist and guitarist born in Ithaca, New York, where his father was a member of the faculty of Cornell University. Schneiderman was introduced to music by his mother, who taught him to play the ukulele when he ...

Career

From 2002 to 2006, Bradley was the lead singer and guitarist for

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's first

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band, Suspicious Minds. From 2008 to 2011, he was the lead guitarist for the rockabilly band Devil Doll in

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. In 2012, he signed a songwriting deal with publisher and radio personality Charlie Monk, which required him to relocate to

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. In 2013, Bradley rose to prominence when his single "New Kind of Lonely" was featured on the

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radio show ''The Highway'' for three weeks. The song rose to No. 98 on the

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record charts while being played on over 100 terrestrial radio stations across the U.S. Bradley was awarded "Country Artist of the Year" by the LA Music Awards in 2014, received a nomination for the same award in 2015 as well as nominations for "Best Video of the Year" for his single "Freedom Like This". In February 2017, Bradley's song "Living for Right Now" was featured an episode of

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's ''

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''. His song "Still Got a Lot to Figure Out" has been featured in episodes of ''

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'', '' Chicago Fire'', and ''The Fosters''. His most recent album, ''Everything I've Got'', was released in July 2018. Later that year, ''

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'' awarded his song "Hard Not to Feel" its DISCovery Award. In 2021, Bradley performed at the Edge of the World Concert in

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, a

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Charity work

In 2004, Bradley collaborated with

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vocalists Julius Ahn, Andy Maddock, and Sherry Chock Wong to create Punk Rock Opera, a benefit concert for the

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organization Unity Crayons. In 2018 and 2021, Bradley created and led Ry's Rock and Roll Camp, a teen music camp in the Norwegian municipality of

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. In 2019, Bradley created the female-led Women Rock benefit concert for Casa Teresa, a home for pregnant women in crisis based in

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Discography

References

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