[1] Originally from London, Ontario,[2] Yates studied at the Berklee College of Music.
[3] He released The Backseat EP in 2011, and followed up with his full-length debut twenty-three in 2013.
[3] He won the Colleen Peterson Songwriting Award in 2014 for his song "The One That Got Away".
[4] His second album, Huntsville, was released in 2016 and was produced by Jim Bryson.
[5] Yates released the singles, "Two Wrongs", "Quiet Talkers", and "When We Came Home", in advance of his full-length album, Quiet Talkers, released in 2020.