Tyler Hilton

Tyler Hilton at The Wayfarer in Costa Mesa, CA on Monday, November 11!

From portraying Elvis Presley in Walk the Line and garnering a cult following

as musician Chris Keller on the CW hit TV show One Tree Hill, to writing and

touring with the likes of Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum and Joe Cocker, Tyler

Hilton has enjoyed an award-winning career spanning music, film and

television.

Born and raised in California, Tyler grew up in a family of talented musicians

who had played for acts like Fleetwood Mac, George Harrison and Donovan.

Performing with his family from an early age, Hilton became serious about

songwriting at 14. At 15, he called into L.A.’s KLOS radio station to win

concert tickets and ended up wowing the hosts with an on-air performance.

The station made him a regular guest and helped launch his debut record,

which caught the ear of Warner Bros. Records, who signed him to record his

second album The Tracks of Tyler Hilton, earning him two Top 40 singles.

Tyler then landed the dream gig of portraying Elvis in Golden Globe-winning

Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, opposite Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin

Phoenix. “I’d never done any kind of professional acting, but got quite the

education from those two. They were pros, and so patient.” Two of his

recordings featured on the film’s Grammy-winning soundtrack and his

portrayal of the late legend helped launch an acting career which has since

seen him star alongside Robert Downey Jr. in the 2007 film Charlie Bartlett

and opposite Halle Berry in CBS series Extant.

However, it was Tyler’s musical role in One Tree Hill that helped build the

devoted, global fan base he has today. The series heavily featured songs from

his third album, 2012’s Forget the Storm, which reached #2 on Billboard’s

Heatseekers Albums Chart. Tyler also featured on the show’s soundtracks

with fan favorites like “When the Stars Go Blue” and “Missing You.” “I played

the worst kind of person on the show, and still the fans totally took me in and

connected with my music. It was an incredible fan base to be a part of!”

Following 2014’s Indian Summer, Tyler released his proudest body of work

yet, 2019’s City on Fire, featuring a collaboration with Lady Antebellum’s

Charles Kelley (an ex-roommate). The album, rooted in Hilton’s signature

cinematic folk-rock stylings, was featured heavily in film and TV including

Showtime’s Shameless. The star-studded video for the record’s gritty lead

single, “City on Fire,” was directed by Tyler’s wife, Megan Park, an award-

winning director, writer and actress. A video for the album’s second single,“When I See You, I See Home,” features footage of the couple’s 2015 nuptials

and their baby daughter, Winnie, born in 2019.

Alongside working on his retro-inspired 6th studio album (expected Spring

2021) which will include a dark take on Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally” –

released in early 2020, following the singer’s death – Tyler and longtime

collaborator Jaco Caraco (Miley Cyrus, Kelly Clarkson) have been writing and

producing new music for Billy Ray Cyrus’ soon-to-be released follow up to

2019’s record-shattering “Old Town Road.”

Hilton has been featured everywhere from Rolling Stone and People’s “50

Most Beautiful People,” to The Tonight Show and TRL. Additionally, he co-

starred in a #1 MTV music video with Taylor Swift, a longtime fan, for her

song, “Teardrops Drops on My Guitar,” which was nominated for an MTV

Music Video Award. Tyler and Megan also starred in the #1 CMT music video

for Gloriana’s “Kissed You Goodnight.”

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Wayfarer, 843 W. 19th Street, Costa Mesa, United States