[2] As a teenager, he listened to and was influenced by African-American artists, including Stevie Wonder, Kool and the Gang, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Jackie Wilson and Otis Redding.

[5] The band sold 500,000 albums and performed alongside artists that included Bryan Adams, George Michael, Simon and Garfunkel, MC Hammer, and many others.

[5] In 1999, Boyé joined two other artists in London to discuss recording a demo tape of LDS Church hymns with a pop/R&B spin.

[6] Within a couple of weeks, the group had started recording the songs and gave performances at Hyde Park, London before going on to tour in Utah.

[9] When the lead actor portraying Frederick Douglass in the Rodgers Memorial Theatre's production of Frank Wildhorn's Civil War dropped out three weeks before the play opened, Boyé was recruited as a replacement.

Glenn McKay, the theatre's board president, had recruited black performers for the show from the Calvary Baptist choir and other area churches, but was having trouble melding them with his Davis County regulars.

[16] Songs by Boyé have appeared in movie soundtracks including Charly (2002), The Dance, Baptists at Our Barbecue and Church Ball.

[24] He also released his Lemonade video on YouTube with more than 1.7 million views[25] Boyé had a role in the 2014 film Saints and Soldiers: The Void.

In December 2014, Boyé released an original Christmas song and YouTube video entitled "Newborn – Wise Men Still Seek Him".

[29] In June 2015, Boyé and his band, Changing Lanes Experience, performed their version of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" on the 10th season of America's Got Talent.

In August 2015, he and the band were eliminated on Judge Cuts Week 4 after performing their version of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk".

[30] In early 2016 Boye and the Brigham Young University Men's Chorus released a version of Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu", the theme music to the video game Civilization IV with lyrics adapted from the Biblical Lord's Prayer in Swahili.

[34] In September 2018, Boyé released the single "Bend Not Break", which focuses on suicide prevention and was produced by Randy Jackson (American Idol).

[35] Boyé met his wife, Julie, in an LDS Church singles ward[2] and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on 6 January 2007.

[citation needed] In 2009, Boyé began raising money to buy a house for a local refugee family with sales of his single, "Crazy for You.

"[38] On 22 February 2012, Boyé became a United States citizen in a ceremony at the Rose Wagner Theater in Salt Lake City.