# Tory Cassis

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{{Short description|Canadian singer}}
'''Tory Cassis''' is a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) folk and jazz singer,<ref>"Eclectic artist looks for joy in his music". ''[The Province](/source/The_Province)'', October 5, 1999.</ref> most noted as a [Juno Award](/source/Juno_Award) nominee for [Best New Solo Artist](/source/Juno_Award_for_Breakthrough_Artist_of_the_Year) at the [Juno Awards of 2000](/source/Juno_Awards_of_2000).<ref>"Here are the Juno nominees for 2000". ''[Moose Jaw Times-Herald](/source/Moose_Jaw_Times-Herald)'', March 10, 2000.</ref>

He had a number of television roles as a child actor, appearing in ''[9B](/source/9B_(TV_series))'', ''[Degrassi High](/source/Degrassi_High)'' and ''[Our Hero](/source/Our_Hero)'', before starting to perform around [Toronto](/source/Toronto), [Ontario](/source/Ontario) as a singer.<ref name=moxie>"Visiting Tory Cassis has moxie". ''[Victoria Times-Colonist](/source/Victoria_Times-Colonist)'', October 8, 1999.</ref> He was briefly signed to [MCA Records](/source/MCA_Records), but got dropped from the label before releasing an album;<ref name=moxie/> he then signed to [True North Records](/source/True_North_Records), which released his album ''Anywhere But Here'' in 1999.<ref>"Tory Cassis: anywhere but here (True North)". ''[Waterloo Region Record](/source/Waterloo_Region_Record)'', September 2, 1999.</ref> He supported the album with cross-Canada tours, first as an opening act for [Moxy Früvous](/source/Moxy_Fr%C3%BCvous) and then on his own.<ref>"Cassis promises to not be boring". ''[Regina Leader-Post](/source/Regina_Leader-Post)'', February 10, 2000.</ref>

He released no further albums as a solo artist, but continued to perform jazz with collaborators such as Tyler Yarema and [Murray Foster](/source/Murray_Foster). The Lesters, his project with Foster and Jeff Ulster, released the EP ''The Promise'' in 2017.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0144319}}
*[http://www.thelesterstrio.com/ The Lesters]

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Category:20th-century Canadian male actors
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