Membership

Artist

Genre

Soulful Funk/Rock

Bio

Tyson started off in 2007 as a 2 piece acoustic outfit playing small sets in London! Come 2009 they grew into a full 4 piece band and their flavour started to develop into the Soulful/Funk/Rock feel it is today. 2009 and 2011 saw Tyson reach the semi-finals of the ‘Surface Unsigned’ competition, performing at venues such as the Boston Music Rooms, Purple Turtle, Troubadour, Zigfrid, Islington 02 Academy and many more and scoring the highest points across the board in every category in their heats! The Best of British Music Festival in Canary Wharf was the scene of Tyson performing on quayside for the Metro newspaper. Other events include: performing at the opening of brand new cocktail bar Purl-London in May 2010 and reaching the semi-finals of the TfL busking competition 2010 and performing at the Lord Mayors Festival in East Ham park, July 2011 coming third place in the East London Talent Quest performing on their largest platform yet. In September 2010 Tyson launched their debut EP “and the beat goes on” at ‘The Water Rats’, Kings Cross, whilst performing as a support act for Eliza Doolittle on the very same night!
Tys Panayis has been passionate about the performing arts since the age of 3, being involved in singing, dancing, catwalk modelling and fashion design. More recently, she was a member of a pop/R’n’B girl group Frenze and a the Melek gospel choir. Tys also provided backing vocals for US soul sensation Charles Walker in 2005 for his UK tour. Tys recently featured in ITV 1’s Cadbury’s ‘Keep team GB pumped’ commercial providing vocals and visual effects. Her true love has been demonstrated by her work with Tyson of which she is a co-founder and where she is chief lyricist, arranger and vocalist.
Tys has recently gone solo from the band and is currently working on new material.

Influences

Gerald Levert, Lionel Richie, Luther Vandross, Anthony Hamilton, Teddy Pendergrass, Eddie Jefferson, Karen Clark Sheard, Kim Burrel, Anita Baker, Jill Scott, India Arie, Kelly Price, Alicia Keys, Ledisi, Lauryn Hill, Mary Mary, Syleena Johnson, Silk, Chante Moore and Kenny Latimore, Lisa McLendon, Eva Cassidy. The list goes on!

Label / Company

Unsigned

Official Website

http://www.twitter.com/Tysonband1

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/tyspanayis

MySpace

http://www.myspace.com/tyspanayis

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/clubsoda1