Bio

Crybaby Americana since 1993, Kyle Joshua Trask is a honey voiced, brass hearted man from north-eastern coastal towns, currently nesting in East Nashville, Tennessee. 

Born in Maine to a blue collar family, as a child Kyle was singing entire songs before speaking full sentences. This was thanks to his father who was a singer and his mother who was a multi-instrumentalist. When his parents split at a young age, his mother moved him and his brothers to Delaware, a state closer to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York City for more opportunities. At 10 years old, his mother bought him his first “real” acoustic guitar: a Washburn with bad intonation and an action that made his hands bleed on the fretboard. He started writing songs that he recorded on a cheap 4 track his father gifted him for Christmas, singing in the kitchen with budget microphones he got from a local used music store. Picking up how to play a little piano along the way, he taught himself every instrument he performed with. Never able to read music in his adolescence, just playing them by ear. 

Hounding his mother to let him join bands with friends, in middle school he began playing shows at local granges and fire halls. Throughout high school, Kyle played alongside acts such as Every Avenue, Automatic Loveletter, The Dangerous Summer, and many similar artists. After releasing his first full length album at 16 years old, he convinced his mom to let him try online homeschooling so he could work during the day and play out at night. This would eventually lead to Kyle being in three different bands from 2009-2018. Those bands began playing and touring both locally and nationally with signed major and independent artists such as Circa Survive, I Am The Avalanche, Kevin Devine, The Veronicas, Young Rising Sons, Tigers Jaw, The Deer Hunter, Man Overboard, The Front Bottoms, American Opera, and hundreds more. In 2018, Kyle and his band Statesmen quietly disbanded, after a long and hard season of chronic depression that he was newly diagnosed with. 

Since then, Kyle moved to Nashville with his wife and began to start over. Old melodies that inspired him to become a songwriter in the first place were haunting him. He used to hide his vulnerability in songs that he wrote in his bedroom, but never shared. Eventually, the desire to share his stories with those he loved deeply set into him. Kyle wanted to embrace those who encouraged him; he wanted to be transparent about who he was for the first time. This is captured in his debut single, “Moving On”, which is about past mistakes, hardships, and failures, and wanting to finally get to the next chapter hoping to find contentment. 

His singles “Moving On” and “Sweeter Keeper” are available to stream on all digital platforms and will be on Kyle Joshua Trask’s upcoming EP, “Cheer”. When he’s not playing music, you can find Kyle most days eating his way around Nashville, singing songs from The Muppet Show with his dogs and a Big Gulp sized coffee in hand.