Alyssa Reid

Biography

Alyssa Ashley Reid (born March 15, 1993) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her career began in 2008 on The Next Star. She rose to fame in 2011, following the release of her single "Alone Again×Alone Again5 July 2011 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Alone Again3:472Alone Again (alternate mix)3:473Alone Again, Pt. 23:48". From 2018-2020, she released music under the name ASHS.

Early life

Reid was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and raised in Brampton, Ontario. Her family moved around Canada often. Reid stated that it gave her the life experience she needed to enter the music industry. She is of Irish, Ukrainian and Greek heritage. She wrote her first song at the age of 7 and started vocal lessons at the age of 9. From then on, she has continued to develop her voice into what has become a singular vocal style. She went to St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Performing Arts School from grades 9 to 11, and then attended Chinguacousy Secondary School through to graduation.

2010–2011: Career beginnings and The Game

Reid was soon discovered by writer, producer, and Wax Records co-founder Jamie Appleby, who signed her to his label after finding a parody of Justin Bieber's "One Less Lonely Girl" (titled "One Less Lonely Boy") that she had posted on YouTube, which went viral.
Her single "Alone Again×Alone Again5 July 2011 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Alone Again3:472Alone Again (alternate mix)3:473Alone Again, Pt. 23:48" featuring P. Reign, released in November 2010, uses lyrics from Heart's 1987 hit "Alone", and was co-written with Wax Records label owner Jamie Appleby, with the original Heart writers Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. The song entered the Canadian Hot 100 at #79 for the week of January 1, 2011, and peaked at #11 the week of April 23, 2011. As of the week of September 24, 2011, the single has spent 39 weeks on the chart. It went on to be CRIA certified double platinum in Canada and sold over a million copies around the world.
In February 2011, she reached #1 on Billboard's "Canadian Emerging Artist" chart and held there for a record-breaking 33 weeks straight. Her single "The Game×The Game21 June 2011 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Letting Go1:372The Game3:003XO4:094Alone Again3:495Interlude0:466Talk Me Down3:257The Dark Side3:368Go4:479Without You3:0910Burned3:4311Live to Tell5:4912Alone Again Pt 2.3:5213Alone Again (Encore Seule)3:19" was released on May 31, 2011, and entered the Canadian Hot 100 at #89 for the week of August 3, 2011, peaking at #35 as of the week of September 24, 2011. In February 2012, "Alone Again" achieved major success in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, beaten to the summit by "Titanium" by David Guetta featuring Sia. On April 27, 2011, she performed her debut single "Alone Again" at the University of Chester, along with several other covers.
Reid was nominated for a 2011 MuchMusic Video Award for Pop Video of the Year for "Alone Again". Her first ever visit to the UK involved a series of interviews with BBC Radio 1, Capital FM and a live interview with Fame Factor TV.
The Game was her debut studio album, recorded in 2010 and released on June 21, 2011 by Wax Records that contains 13 songs. Reid worked with composers and producers such as Billy Steinberg and Jamie Appleby. The album was released in the US as a digital download on May 7, 2013.
Reid performed at the 2012 Juno Awards on April 1, 2012, and was nominated in the "Best New Artist" category.

2011–2017: Touring, Time Bomb, Phoenix and singles

On October 1, 2011, Reid began touring with Neverest for the Canadian Tour 2011. Reid started her first UK Tour in April 2012 by promoting her single "Alone Again×Alone Again5 July 2011 · SingleSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 3 tracks1Alone Again3:472Alone Again (alternate mix)3:473Alone Again, Pt. 23:48". During this time, Reid was also featured on Wax Records label-mate Jesse Labelle's 2012 single "Heartbreak Coverup×Heartbreak Coverup15 May 2012 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracks1Heartbreak Coverup (radio version)3:192Heartbreak Coverup (No Feature version)3:20".
In September 2013, Reid released the single "Satisfaction Guaranteed×Satisfaction Guaranteed2 June 2023 · Studio albumSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 9 tracks1Alone Again (10th anniversary edition)4:292Don’t Call Me3:253Satisfaction Guaranteed2:494Mean2:055More Than Friends3:316We Are Stars3:547Without You3:138Dangerous3:399Paranoid2:42", which rose to #25 on the Canadian Hot 100. On February 11, 2014, her second studio album Time Bomb×Time Bomb11 February 2014 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Intro0:222Clyde3:203Radio Silence3:554Satisfaction Guaranteed2:495Hurricane3:086Interlude0:557See Me3:208Change Your Mind3:419Running Guns2:5610Last Chance3:5211Gravity4:1312Let It All Go3:1513Time Bomb4:57 was released. It features 12 songs including "Hurricane" (released in the same year), and two other singles ("Running Guns×Running Guns19 March 2013 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Running Guns2:56" and "Satisfaction Guaranteed") that had been released a year earlier. Reid, along with Danny Fernandes and JRDN, joined Hedley on their Wild Live 2014 Canadian Tour, which began on February 14, 2014. Reid also toured across Canada alongside label-mate Virginia to Vegas for her "The Time Bomb Tour", which began October 16, 2014.
On July 10, 2015, Reid released a new single titled "Dangerous×Dangerous10 July 2015 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Dangerous3:39", featuring The Heist. She released "Tomorrow" on November 2 of the same year. Reid's third album Phoenix×Phoenix27 November 2015 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 10 tracks1Suffocating3:092We Are Stars3:553Phoenix2:414Beautiful4:485Tomorrow (acoustic)2:456Can't Keep Waiting4:077Dangerous (acoustic)4:118Lonely Heart3:329Tomorrow3:5410Dangerous3:39 was released on November 27, 2015.
On June 6, 2016, Reid announced that her single "Rollercoaster×Rollercoaster17 June 2016 · SingleSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 1 track1Rollercoaster3:13" would be released on June 17, and will be featured on her upcoming fourth album. Said album has yet to materialise with the singles "The Badlands" and "High".

2018–present: ASHS

Reid took to Instagram on October 3, 2019, to announce that she has been releasing music under the alias ASHS. She also announced that will be working with Wax Records, the Universal Music Group, Republic Records and Polydor to bring ASHS to the "forefront of [her] my focus". As of October 2019, she has released two extended plays under the ASHS alias: 3AM Pt. 1 and 3AM Pt. 2. She has also released four singles, "Without You", "Paranoid", "My Ex" and "Don't Call Me", under Universal Music Canada.

Personal life

She attended University of Toronto, majoring in Environmental Studies. After that, she worked with various artists in Sweden, Los Angeles and Toronto as a songwriter and creative director. Reid currently plays rugby for the Toronto Scottish R.F.C.