A vocalist and songwriter straddling country and pop, Tenille Arts first broke through in her native Canada and later drew widespread attention across the United States. Hailing from Saskatchewan, she started performing original material at thirteen and had already become a polished professional by twenty-one when she issued her debut single. Her lucid, expressive delivery, spacious melodies, and skill at tracing the peaks and valleys of love shaped early releases, among them the self-titled 2016 EP containing “What’s He Into” and “Wildfire and Whiskey,” followed by the 2017 album Rebel Child that spotlighted “Cold Feet.” The aching “Moment of Weakness” reached a broader American audience after placement on a popular reality series, which in turn secured a recording contract and yielded the 2020 album Love, Heartbreak & Everything in Between as well as the Juno-nominated Girl to Girl in 2021. She subsequently joined the Dreamcatcher Artists roster for the candid 2024 set To Be Honest.
Tenille Arts entered the world on April 19, 1994, in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Country music filled her childhood, and at eight a neighbor overheard her singing a Shania Twain number in the backyard before informing her mother of the child’s evident promise. Piano and vocal lessons soon followed, and by thirteen she had begun composing her own material. Performances at Canadian showcases and talent contests came next; in 2009 she uploaded an acoustic clip of Taylor Swift’s “Fifteen,” which caught the ear of a Nashville manager who offered representation. She spent a brief period in Nashville before returning to Canada to complete high school, continue songwriting, refine her stagecraft, and accumulate life experience.
By 2015 she had established herself as a songwriter collaborating with Nashville peers, prompting Noble Vision Music Group to propose a publishing deal; she accepted and relocated, immersing herself in the American country music capital. That year she released the charity single “Breathe,” which supported cystic fibrosis research—an effort that mattered deeply after she had taught dance to a young girl living with the disease—and the track reached the Canadian Top Ten on digital country charts. In 2016 she delivered a six-song self-titled EP that topped Canada’s digital country rankings and crossed into the U.S. Country Top 100. Recognition followed with a 2016 Canadian Country Music Association nomination for Discovery Artist, while the Saskatchewan Country Music Association awarded her Emerging Artist honors and Album of the Year for the EP. October 2017 brought her debut full-length Rebel Child; buoyed by the hit “Cold Feet,” the project climbed to number two on Canadian digital country sales lists and reached number 17 stateside.
Her American profile surged in January 2018 after she performed “Moment of Weakness” on the dating series The Bachelor, reviving the song across radio and streaming platforms. The following March she signed with Reviver Records, releasing “I Hate This” in July 2018 and “Mad Crazy Love” that September. Several 2019 singles, among them the charting “Somebody Like That,” preceded the January 2020 arrival of Love, Heartbreak & Everything in Between. She swiftly returned in 2021 with “Give It to Me Straight” and the Matt Stell duet “Over You Is You,” both featured on Girl to Girl, which appeared in October 2021 and earned a Juno nomination for Country Album of the Year. The next year she moved to Dreamcatcher Artists, issuing “Jealous of Myself”—including a version with LeAnn Rimes—as the lead single from her forthcoming project. Subsequent releases “Wonder Woman” and “Next Best Thing” introduced a more confessional style that defined her fourth album, To Be Honest, released in May 2024.
