Matt Dusk began singing in the mid-1980s, when he became a member of St. He was a student at St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto in the mid-1980s. Later, he studied at York University, where he was mentored by Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson, a virtuoso jazz pianist and composer.
During his career, Matt Dusk has released more than 10 studio albums, which have gone on to sell both gold and platinum records. The singer-songwriter has been nominated five times for Canada's premier music awards, the Juno Awards, often referred to as the Canadian equivalent of the British Music Awards or the Grammy Awards in the US.
"Singers like Toronto's Matt Dusk have learned from the greats and brought retro classics to a modern audience," writes the LA Times.
"Diving into grandiose arrangements, Matt Dusk has mastered Frank Sinatra's style of Los Angeles sins in a particularly authentic way, turning the clock back some four decades," agrees JazzTimes, known as the bible of jazz, in a statement that calls it the "jazz bible."
"Matt Duskas brings Las Vegas back to its glory days in a spectacular way, as the standards singer sounds remarkably like Frank Sinatra," adds the music magazine Billboard.
