REAL NAME: Ryan Alan Evans
STAGE NAME: HighTyde
HOMETOWN: Battle Creek, MI
BIRTHDATE: February 28, 1982
AGE: 27
HEIGHT: 5'9"
WEIGHT: 155 lbs.
PROFESSION: Christian Hip Hop

HIGHLIGHTS:
1982 • Ryan Evans was born to Patricia & Rodney Evans
1996 • Ryan wrote his first song
1997 • Ryan adopted the stage name "CoolyHigh"
1998 • "CoolyHigh" was dropped, "HighTyde" was born
2000 • HighTyde first live performance
2001 • "Tha OtherSyde of Hightyde" is released
2002 • "Fear Not" is written, recorded, & then scrapped
2003 • History is made as "Enissophobia" is released
2003 • "Fear Not" is re-written, recorded & released
2003 • Station South Ent. recruits HighTyde
2004 • "Greatest Hits V.I" is released
2004 • "Christmas Card" ships out to Radio nationwide
2004 • HighTyde signs with Word/Warner Bros.
2004 • HighTyde leaves Word Records
2006 • Independently releases "God Loves Company"
2007 • Album is followed up by the release of "R.E.MIX"
2008 • HighTyde begins work on the "Tydal Wave (EP)"
2009 • Lead single, "Addicted" gets rotation on THE HYPE
2009 • HighTyde interview on CHP Radio

BIOGRAPHY:
As a youth, I attended the First Presbyterian Church of Homer, Michigan. I think my career all started because of my upbringing. Being an only child, music was my one true friend. I became passionate about music since I was 5 years old (back when I used to sway to the music in my car seat, as mom would say). I instantly connected with hip hop music. To me, there was so much passion and emotion in it. I began writing in 1996, I didnt even have music to write to, I would just write to the music in my head. Granted, when I began to rap, I was so influenced by the "gangsta" and "thug" image of rap that I had let my spiritual ways behind me. Years later while I was dating a girl in East Lansing, I began to revisit church, and upon my first visit back. Something just changed, although I wasn't sure what it was at the time. Eventually I came in contact with Jeremy Dowsett, a youth leader of a church in East Lansing. He sat me down one day and said, "Ryan I like your music, but..." and then he quoted the one quote that would change my life forever; 1 Corinthians 13.10 , "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." And it hit me, were the things I was saying in my songs really me? were they really who I was about? From that moment on in 2001, I dedicated my musical ministry to our Lord and Father, Jesus Christ. Everything I do is for Him, and not a day goes by that I am not grateful for the amazing gift He has given me and allowed me to share with the world. Praise God!