Mike Ruby is a Canadian singer songwriter from Toronto with a story that’s far from ordinary. Mike moved to New York at 19 to pursue a career in jazz as a sax player, receiving a full scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music. That education and exposure gave him a unique sense of musicianship that shines through his melodic writing to this day. After signing a record deal to a subsidiary of Universal Music, he began playing with Brooklyn based synth pop band St. Lucia, which opened his ears to a realm of synth and dance-like possibilities. He picked up a guitar soon thereafter and started writing hundreds of songs as a singer songwriter. Mike has since spent time in Los Angeles, Nashville and Toronto writing for himself and other artists through his publishing company, and has garnered over 15 million streams as a writer. As an artist, his first fully independent release from his debut EP was a single called “Close”, and it broke Top 40 radio across Canada and on the Billboard charts. Mike is going to be releasing his second EP entitled “a million you’s” in the fall of 2023.
