Region:
Calgary, AB
Level of Experience:
PROFESSIONAL
Genre:
Country | Folk | Acoustic | Americana | Children's | Pop
I Write:
By myself | For myself | With others | For others
I prefer to write:
Lyrics | Melody | Chord Patterns | Arrangements
Songs Recorded:
Over 200 Country, Folk, A/C, TV/Film and Children's songs cut or placed since 2007... including Shane Yellowbird - "Pickup Truck" & "Watching You Walk Away" Brett Kissel - "Girl In A Cowboy Hat" & Hayley Jensen - "Breakin' Hearts"
Albums Released:
Lonely Ghost - 2018 (Reluctant Cowboy Records)
Like A Record (Single) - 2020 (Reluctant Cowboy Records)
Awards:
SOCAN Award for Country Music, SCMA Song of the Year, 2x YYC Music Awards Songwriter of the Year, YYC Music Awards Video of the Year
Other Credits:
2x CCMA Songwriter of the Year Nominee, CBC Indigenous Music Awards - Best Folk Album Nominee
I am interested in:
Web Cowriting | Face to face Cowriting | Networking | Pitching Songs to Artists | Pitching Songs To Tv/Film/Etc. | Getting a Publishing Deal
Other Jobs:
Producer/Audio Engineer/Artist Manager/Video Director/Animator
Biography:
Troy Kokol is a Canadian singer, producer, and award-winning video director/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.
As a songwriter, Kokol has had cuts with many artists, including Australian Hayley Jensen, Warner Music's Brett Kissel, Jerry Sereda, Tenille Townes, Leaving Thomas, Don Amero, Chris Henderson, and Shane Yellowbird, whose single, "Pick Up Truck" (written w/ Joni Delaurier) was listed #6 all-time on Canadian country radio by Billboard.
As an artist, Troy recorded, mixed, and mastered his most recent 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, won Songwriter of the Year for the song "Jim Cuddy" in 2018, and Songwriter and Video of the Year for the song "Lightbulb" in 2020 at the 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" debuted at #1 on the Australian iTunes country music charts and hit #5 on the nationwide airplay charts.