Who is Ty Myers, the Gen Z TikTok-star-turned-music sensation with a blues approach?

Ty Myers is a young man with vintage tastes. His 2025 debut album, The Select – its title nods to the Parisian brasserie from Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises – puts bluesy guitar riffs against low-slung soul-rock grooves, as in the twangy “Let ‘Em Talk” and the waltz-time “Ends of the Earth”, which has been streamed more than 70 million times on Spotify and is slowly moving up the country radio chart.

Yet the singer has built his growing audience the new-fashioned way. In 2023, not long after he started posting music online, his song “Tie That Binds” went viral on TikTok.

These days, the platform is filled with videos of teenage girls, many even younger than Myers, screaming along with him at concerts, like the one he played recently after a Royals game at Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium.

His latest single, a stately 70s-style ballad called “Through a Screen”, is about falling in love with someone you’ve never met in the flesh.

Here’s everything you need to know about Ty Myers.

Ty Myers grew up in a musical family

Myers, 18, grew up in Dripping Springs, Texas, as part of a musical family that includes a great-uncle who co-founded the band Lonestar and another great-uncle who plays keys for George Strait.

By junior school, he was known around town as a singer. “I vividly remember my PE teacher making me get up and sing ‘Check Yes or No’ for the whole gymnasium,” he says of the old Strait hit. And at 11 or 12 he discovered Stevie Ray Vaughan on YouTube.

“It was ‘Lenny’ from Live at the El Mocambo,” he says, referring to the blues-rock star’s classic concert film. “I was like, ‘That’s what I want to do.’”

Playing guitar and writing songs became “a borderline addiction”, as Myers puts it, that he squeezed between going to school and playing football and baseball, the latter of which he described as “a way of life in Texas”.