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Born Ryan Benjamin Tedder on the 7th of January 1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is best known as the front man for the “MySpace U.S. rock phenomenon”, OneRepublic. Ryan is also a Grammy nominated songwriter and record producer. He was raised by an extended family of missionaries and pastors and began learning to play the piano at the age of three,by ear rather than reading notes.
He attended the Colorado Springs Christian High School in Colorado Springs, where he met guitarist Zach Filkins, who would later go on to form the band OneRepublic with him.

For several years Tedder worked as a waiter, and also a shop assistant before securing an internship at DreamWorks SKG in Nashville, singing on demo’s to break into the music scene.He produced demo’s for songwriters and labels, charging $300 to $400 a track.

At the age of 21 he competed in a singer-songwriter competition and was selected by ‘N Sync singer Lance Bass as one of five finalists to perform on a one hour special on MTV, performing original material in front of millions of viewers.The prize for the winner was a music contract with Bass’s now-defunct management company, Free Lance Entertainment. The contestants performed live and were then rated by judges and the audience, the highest scoring artist winning the contract. His performance of one of his own songs “The Look” received the most votes from the judges and fans, and he won the competition; however, a contract with a recording label was not finalized and no album was released.

Now there are not many pictures of Ryan alone, but I did mange to find quite a few of the band….So here goes, enjoy!