He was born in Lindsay, Ontario, and began his acting career with commercials and performing in the Musical Tommy in Toronto.

He appeared in the made-for-TV movie Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story in 2004, and had a recurring role on the Canadian drama Instant Star as Vincent Spiederman until 2008.

Kyte played a rockstar on the show Instant Star (for 4 seasons) where he was the guitarist for the backup band for Jude Harrison (Alexz Johnson).

As well as singing an acoustic cover of the Degrassi: the Next Generation theme during the ending credits of seasons 9 through 14 Tyler's debut CD, Talking Pictures, is now available in stores throughout Canada.

He plays guitar, mandolin, and piano as well as providing backing vocals in Blue Fox, The Ryan O'Reilly Band and the drums for Sweet Thing.

Roles include Goosebumps, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Due South, The Defenders: Payback, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Interstate 60, Darcy's Wild life, and more.