Ryan Link

Ryan Link was born in San Francisco and raised in the suburbs of Seattle, and now bounces between New York and Nashville. ​ As the son of an airline pilot and a flight attendant, Ryan got to go places. He grew up obsessing over grooves: radio pop, hard rock, reggae and soul, and played out in several '90s Seattle bands as a young drummer/vocalist, dabbling in grunge, funk, trip-hop and jam-band. Moving to Boston, a power-pop frontman emerged (one album released with Miss Fortune, and an EP with Now Is Now) after a brief stint at Berklee College of Music. Around the same time, he got bit by the acting bug, and moved again to NYC. Two years after declaring himself a thespian, he made his 2003 Broadway debut as rocker Roger in Jonathan Larson's RENT. He joined a new rock band in the interim (Kill The Camera), then returned to Broadway and toured the country with the 2009 revival of HAIR, the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. In 2013 Ryan landed a dream job, traveling as an actor-musician with the musical ONCE, featuring songs composed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova and based on the cult indie film hit (www.oncemusical.com). He performed in over 800 shows through the end of 2015 on an extended tour of the U.S., Canada and Japan. The "Reverberations" EP, a first solo writing effort, was recorded by Don Chaffer (Waterdeep) outside Nashville in September and October of 2014. Ryan plays drums and acoustic guitar, and sang most of the vocals on the record. The other players include Jay Barclay (The Waterboys, Augustana, The Damnwells, Ben Kweller), and John Pahmer (Rev. Al Green, Jordin Sparks, Sandra Bernhard, Celebrity Apprentice) -- as well as castmates from the Once tour, Ray Bokhour and Ben Magnuson. Ryan is currently writing his first full-length album as a solo artist. You can also catch him with the new Nashville Yacht Club Band (facebook.com/nashvilleyachtclubband), playing all the Yacht Rock hits of 1975-85. who sings, acts, plays instruments, and occasionally remembers to write things down.