Tobias Jesso Jr. has come a long way from playing at Argyle Secondary in North Vancouver.
This weekend, Jesso is up for a Juno Award in the Songwriter of the Year (Non-Performer) category, at this year’s ceremony set for Sunday at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.
The nomination page on the Junos website lists his contributions to Dua Lipa’s “Houdini,” Maren Morris’s “push me over” and Camila Cabello’s “Come Show Me.”
Jesso gained worldwide acclaim when he won two Grammys in 2023 – for Songwriter of the Year, and Album of the Year for his work on Harry Styles’s Harry’s House.
Jesso’s professional music career kicked off as the bass player for a Vancouver-famous dance-rock band called The Sessions from 2005 to 2008.
In the years following, Jesso struggled to launch a songwriting career in Los Angeles. Eventually, challenges in his personal life brought him back to living in his parents’ North 麻豆传媒映画basement. It was there that Jesso taught himself the piano, and he began to string the sounds together that would eventually appear on his debut studio album Goon in 2015.
His unpolished but charismatic pianoman sound quickly propelled him to popularity, and gained him the ears of industry heavyweights like Adele, who famously tweeted out his single “How Could You Babe.”
After that, he finally broke into the realm of mainstream songwriting, collaborating with the likes of Adele, John Legend, Miley Cyrus, Shawn Mendes and many others.
Earlier this month – almost 10 years to the day since his first album released – Jesso revealed that a follow-up second studio album called Goon 2 .
The 2025 Juno Awards will broadcast at 5 p.m. PDT on CBC-TV, CBC Gem and CBC Radio One. The show will be hosted by Michael Bublé, and feature performances from Peach Pit, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, and bbno$.
