"When one door closes, another opens" Alexander Graham Bell.
Ryan Van Belleghem began his music career when he was interrupted from playing competitive high school football after an ACL knee injury at the beginning of his grade ten football season.
This eighteen year old musician, who writes and composes his own songs, released with great applause
his first CD entitled “Another Man” November 2010. Highlighting eleven original tracks which cross a
variety of genres, Ryan’s premiere CD has cemented him as an up and coming musician.
Ryan has received the honour of winning the Lake of the Woods Art Collectives and DC Music
Productions 2010 Young Artist Development Contest with the performance of his original song entitled 'What’s Right' . Additionally, he was also chosen as the winner of the 2010 Harbourfront Talent Contest (song: 'Blueberry Hill').
Cited in the Lake of the Woods Enterprise (August 7, 2010) Deborah Cruikshank co-owner of DC
Productions is quoted “He is just so well poised. He has beautiful vocal control and range and he’s
a talented musician. He uses his guitar as five instruments. He’s young and has lots of potential.”
According to Wayne Kelso of Kelso Productions (June 16, 2010), “He sings well past his years…it’s hard to match such a deep voice to this young man.”
Inspired musically by such performers as Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens, Jack Johnson and Ben Harper, Ryan is a self taught, focused musician, who inspires to produce high quality entertainment for his audience. His vocal, guitar and harmonica performances during the last two years include many Northwestern Ontario opportunities such as The Trout Forest Music Festival, Fort Frances Folk Festival, Coney Island Music Festival as well as numerous other venues such as the Relay for Life, Colours for Cancer, Railway Daze,Festival of the Arts, Lake of the Woods Arts Collective, Blue Heron Street Festival, Festival of Trees, Kenora-Keewatin Canada Day Celebrations, and Thirty Hour Famine, naming only a few.
Radio and newspaper reviews (Kenora Daily Miner and News and The Lake of the Woods Enterprise) have been extremely supportive of this young artist who has had numerous interviews and live performances on radio stations such at Q104 FM (http://www.q104fm.ca/) and 89.5 MIX FM (http://www.cjrl.ca/89fm/). His single ‘True’ featured on his CD “Another Man” can be heard on the regular play list of 89.5 MIX FM.
His music is also located on CBC Radio 3 at http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Ryan-Van-Belleghem as
well as itunes, and at the following Kenora establishments: HoJoe Coffee and Books, Donny B's,
Lakeview Co-op and Keewatin Place.
