Tyson Ritter

Tyson Ritter in 2003

**Tyson Jay Ritter** is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor and model. Co-founder of **The All-American Rejects.**

## Early life

Tyson was born on April 24, 1984 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He has an older brother Dr. Zack S. Ritter, who is an endodontist, and a younger sister, Bailey Ritter. He and his siblings graduated from Stillwater High School.

## *The Rejects* сareer

Ritter met his bandmates while he was at a party in high school. After Jesse Tabish quit the band, and with the additions of Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylor, The All-American Rejects were picked up by Doghouse Records, and later DreamWorks Records, and finally signed with the major label Interscope Records. In early 2018, the band left Interscope. As of July 2019, they are signed to Epitaph Records. The All-American Rejects have released four albums to date, and have sold over 10 million albums worldwide and 4 million singles.

## Acting career

Ritter appeared in many television series and films such as **House (2007)**, **The House Bunny (2008)**, **Miss You Already (2015)** and **Parenthood (2013-15)**. Recently Tyson appeared in **Cowboy Bebop** Netflix series and will star in family drama film **Prisoner's Daughter** in future.

## Solo career

In 2010, Ritter appeared in **Timbaland's** track called **I'm In Love With You**. On November 5, 2013, Tyson released the song **Air** as a solo song to help "ride between the Rejects next record". Also there are songs **Collide**, **Should've Taken You Home**, **Hear Me Now**, **You're In Or You're Out**, **Bandwagon**. These songs are featured on **Parenthood** series

In 2020 Tyson released two singles **Pine Box** and **Broken Glass Slippers** under a pseudonym **Sharpton Mann**.

On July 19, Tyson teased his collaboration with **LILHUDDY** on Instagram and on August 6 track **Don't Freak Out** and its video were released.

On October 1, Ritter sang in the new **Cheat Codes** & **Grey** track called **Hurricane**. On December 10 they released a music video on **Hurricane**, which is directed by Tyson himself. He also appears in the video.

## Now More Than Ever

**Now More Than Ever** is a band founded by **Tyson Ritter**, **Scott Chesak** and **Izzy Fontaine** in 2019. Tyson already teasered some of the songs on his Instagram, like **Tragedy**, **I'm Gonna Solider On** and **D.E.A.D Together**.

"This is my new band Now More Than Ever. We're gonna be putting out some music in October. This song called Tragedy", Tyson said on his **Instagram** livestream

The band still hasn't released any songs

## Painter career

In 2021 Tyson started posting his paintings on Instagram. Also he showed his paintings in **Tiny Art Gallery** under a pseudonym **Threee**

## Personal life

Ritter has been in relationship with Kim Smith (2004-2009)

Tyson and actress Elena Satine were engaged in April 2013 and married on New Year's Eve that year

Ritter is an investor in various tech companies including Hooch App

Tyson welcomed a son in 2020, with Elena Satine.

Tyson is currently in New Zealand living life without the threat of COVID-19

## Filmography

### Films

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