Biography

Ken Tobias is one of Canada's most accomplished singer songwriters with a career that has spanned over four decades. Ken reached prominence in the 1960's as a cast performer on the Canadian TV series Music Hop and Singalong Jubilee. Early in his career Ken moved to Los Angeles where his first record, "You're Not Even Going to the Fair", was produced by Bill Medley. Everyday Ken's songs like Dream #2, I Just Want To Make Music, Every Bit of Love; Give A Little Love, Fly Me High, New York City and Stay Awhile are staples at classic radio. The Bells' recording of his song Stay Awhile became an international hit, selling over four million copies and reaching No. 7 in 1971 on the Billboard charts and a pop classic in Mandarin and Cantonese in China and SE Asia. His credits include: 9 award winning songs, 10 charted songs, 5 songs awarded by SOCAN for over 100,000 radio plays in Canada. In 2013 Ken was the recipient of the first Director’s Lifetime Achievement Award from Music New Brunswick and in 2016 he was inducted into the Nova Scotia Music Hall of Fame. Throughout the 1970s Ken recorded and released several albums on MGM/Verve, Polygram and Attic Records. In the ‘80s Ken went indie and continued to record and perform. Ken’s talents go well beyond his achievements in music. Now based in his hometown of Saint John where he continues to make music, he is also an accomplished visual artist with his paintings hanging in homes and galleries in Canada and the United States.