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Royal Wood is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, who has established himself as a true musical talent. Since being proclaimed “Songwriter of the Year” by iTunes, Wood has continued to evolve and hone his musical craft – maintaining an unmistakable identity while uncovering and reinventing his sound.
Wood has two albums that have debuted in the Top 30, multiple JUNO nominations, 2-time Canadian Folk Music Award-nominee, and a #1 added song at Hot AC radio. His songs have been heard on high profile sync placements like Grey’s Anatomy, and Private Practice. 
Royal Wood is currently touring the world in support of his critically acclaimed 2018 release, Ever After The Farewell. 
Biography
Early life
Wood was born John Royal Wood Nicholson[1] and raised in Lakefield, Ontario.[2] Royal Wood, his performing name and his real middle names, were chosen in memory of his great-grandfather, Royal Rufus Wood, who died in 1962.
Wood grew up in a household filled with music;[3] his brother Luke Nicholson is also a singer-songwriter.[4] He began playing piano by ear at the age of four and started lessons at age eight.[5] With the support of his school music program, he had access to a variety of different instruments, and by his teens, he became a multi-instrumentalist well-versed in many different styles, including the guitar, bass guitar, drums, clarinet, and trumpet.[2]
After high school, Wood studied business at McGill University. During this time, he performed piano in Montreal jazz clubs and focused on his guitar playing while trying to find his voice as a songwriter.[5]
Career
Wood released his first EP, entitled The Milkweed EP, in 2003. This collection of songs were written, arranged, performed and produced by Wood himself.[6] The release garnered much critical acclaim, and critics drew comparisons with Randy Newman, Jeff Buckley, and Tom Waits.[7]
Following the release of his debut EP, Wood set out to create an over-the-top pop record for his full-length debut. Drawing inspiration from The Beatles and The Beach Boys,[8] Wood once again undertook production duties during the recording sessions. In 2004, he released his full-length debut record, Tall Tales on Maple Music. The record’s ornate sound and layered arrangements garnered much critical attention, and Wood was praised for his vocal style and infectious lyricism.[9]
With the goal of creating a more mature and pristine sound,[10] Wood entered Toronto's Reaction Studios in 2005 to begin recording the follow-up to his full-length debut. During the recording session, he used a Steinway grand piano, scored a full string quartet, and also enlisted the help of many well-known musicians, including Hawksley Workman and Kurt Swinghammer.[11] The result was A Good Enough Day, which was released in 2007 on Dead Daisy Records in Canada, and in 2008 on Rounder Europe. The record received much radio attention domestically and abroad, and Wood was praised by critics for his fluent piano playing, melodic lyrical style and production ability.[7][12] The record spawned three singles and three music videos, “A Mirror Without”, “Juliet” and “I’m So Glad”. Music from the record has also been featured on several TV and movie soundtracks, including TMN/Movie Central's ReGenesis, the CBC series This is Wonderland, the CTV movie Playing House, the film The End of Silence, and the Food Network’s The Surreal Gourmet. Internationally, A Mirror Without was featured on an episode of Grey's Anatomy.[13] His song Paradise was also featured on an episode of Private Practice.
With the success of A Good Enough Day, Wood was invited to share the stage with numerous Canadian songstresses, including Emm Gryner, Sarah Harmer,[5] Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Slean, Jill Barber and Serena Ryder.[14] In support of the Rounder Europe release of the record, he also embarked on a European tour in 2008.
Constantly evolving, Wood wanted to focus his next effort on the lyrics and string arrangements. The result was the 2009 release The Lost and Found EP.[15] With a consistently growing fan base, Wood embarked on his first headlining tour in Western Canada in November 2009 in support of the new EP. Joined by Atlantic Canadian singer-songwriter Rose Cousins, Wood played to capacity crowds[16] during three-week tour.
In 2010 he released The Waiting after which he was named iTunes Songwriter of the Year and nominated at the Junos for Songwriter of the Year. He also supported David Gray on a full national tour, and completed three headline tours of Canada, and others in Europe and the US.
His 2012 album We Were Born to Glory debuted in the Top 25 on the Canadian Albums Chart, and was nominated for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the 2013 Juno Awards. The first single from the album was "Not Giving Up".
On March 18, 2014, Wood released The Burning Bright. The lead single "Forever and Ever" was a Top 40 hit in Canada. In June 2014, Wood released the companion album I Wish You Well, which included five new songs and four original mixes from the previous album. The album was a collaboration with Dean Drouillard, while much of the material was inspired by Wood's stay in Co. Meath, Ireland.[17]
In October of 2015, Wood released his first single "Long Way Out" for his upcoming 2016 album "GHOST LIGHT". Royal Wood released GHOST LIGHT, via MapleMusic Recordings April 22, 2016. "This album for me was a full return to writing and recording simply for the joy of creation...A true letting go and allowing,” says Royal.[18] The result is an album that exudes raw emotion and emanates a feel of the songwriters of the sixties and seventies. “I felt like on this album, I snuffed out the external Ghost Lights, and allowed my internal light to glow instead,” says Royal.[19] Wood embarked on a National tour to support GHOST LIGHT in spring 2016, including a show at the National Arts Centre’s Southam Hall, with the NAC Orchestra. Canadian Newspaper The Globe and Mail stated, “Wood’s manner is smooth, heartfelt and direct” and “impressive and expressive”. 
In the same year that Wood lost his father to illness, he also fell in love and got married. As an artist, Royal channeled these polar opposite emotions into his new album “Ever After The Farewell”. On April 6, 2018, Royal Wood released his critically acclaimed album "Ever After The Farewell". Recorded in London, UK, with Jamie Scott (known for his work with renowned artists like Rag’n Bone Man, Michael Kiwanuka, Niall Horan and Ed Sheeran), Royal’s album is not only deeply inspired by both loss and love, but is an ode to the classic styles of both Tin Pan Alley and Laurel Canyon.
Royal is currently touring the world in support of his critically acclaimed 2018 release, Ever After The Farewell. 
Personal life
In 2008, Wood and fellow singer-songwriter Sarah Slean got engaged while in Paris;[20] the pair married in 2009.[21] In January 2014, Slean announced she and Wood had "parted ways as friends".[22]
Wood lives in Toronto's Liberty Village neighbourhood, as well as, owning his parents' farm near Peterborough.[23]
“Jamie and I worked on the album over the course of three writing trips to the UK. The very first thing Jamie and I worked on was ‘Something About You’. It began with me playing the basic chord progression, and then Jamie started riffing on the idea that it should be about a girl you see and instantly fall for, and the lyrics should be based on the silly dialog you say to yourself in your head. We wrote the song in about 30 minutes from end to end. To me, it ended up being a call out to the Universe because 1 week later I met my wife for the first time and fell instantly in love.” - Royal Wood[24]
Wood married Alison Waldbauer in Toronto on September 2, 2017.[25] 
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replies: text:  If there is any purely objective information here that is lacking from our article, we will certainly consider adding it if we can find a reliable source to support it. However, the article must be written in a neutral and encyclopedic tone, and not as a commercial advertisement for him — his management company does not get any right to control the content of this article, or the tone in which it is written, or the types of sources it's allowed to be based on. We are an encyclopedia, not a free public relations platform — articles on here get written in accordance with our rules about writing tone and style and sourcing, not your own. For example, every single musician who exists at all is always going to claim to have "established himself as a true musical talent", and to have "continued to evolve and hone his musical craft – maintaining an unmistakable identity while uncovering and reinventing his sound." These are not things that make Royal Wood unique as an artist — they're marketing bumf that every musician is always going to claim to have achieved, which is why Wikipedia doesn't publish stuff written like that: it's not telling me anything objectively informative about Royal Wood except how he wants himself marketed. Bearcat (talk) 19:07, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
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