Biography:

Troy Kokol is a Canadian singer, producer, artist manager, and award-winning songwriter with over 200 cuts to his name in a variety of music genres, TV, and film. Troy is a recipient of the SOCAN Award for Country Music and a 2-time CCMA Songwriter of the Year nominee. He's toured across North America as a professional musician/road manager and established Reluctant Cowboy Music in Calgary, AB as his home base where he continues to song write, produce and grow both his publishing and artist management business.

As a songwriter, Kokol has had cuts with many artists, including Warner Music's Brett Kissel, Tenille Townes, Jerry Sereda, Hayley Jensen, Leaving Thomas, Don Amero, Chris Henderson, and Shane Yellowbird, whose single, "Pick Up Truck" (written w/ Joni Delaurier) was recently listed #6 all-time on Canadian country radio by Billboard!

As an artist, Troy recorded, mixed, and mastered his latest single, "Like A Record"; a follow up to the award-winning album "Lonely Ghost" which was nominated for the 2018 CBC Indigenous Music Awards - Best Folk Album and won the Songwriter of the Year award at the 2018 YYC Music Awards.

Besides his own albums, Troy has produced and engineered projects for many artists at his Calgary studio including Jerry Sereda, Invictus/Universal music artist Beamer Wigley and Australia's Hayley Jensen whose song "Breakin Hearts" hit #1 on the Australian iTunes country music charts.