jason arnold known by his stage name shyboy is an american singersongwriter producer and djmashup artistshyboys music has been featured in tv shows films and video games including abcs super fun night syfys warehouse 13 cws americas next top model and capcoms multiplatinum game devil may cry 4 hes performed on stages in europe and north america including a headliner slot at the carmel art and film festival at the pacific repertory theatres golden bough playhouse a series of shows at the cbgb festival in nyc and multiple residency dates at the hotel caf in los angeles with his live band consisting of angela momiyama on bass elizabeth goodfellow on drums and mark nubar on piano shyboy has shared the stage with artists such as amanda palmer griffin house meiko and bell x1 and has appeared on numerous radio shows and web series including stripped down live with curt smithshyboys debut solo lp water on mars was released in october 2013 produced by arnold and nubar the album features cowrites with songwriters such as allee willis david batteau ivo moring wendy waldman and others the songs bird in flight and wouldnt it be good were released as singles both with videos directed by filmmaker michael bodie and produced by loretta ramos the huffington posts review of water on mars says the album makes a bold tuneful impression on todays indiepop landscape and that it is one of the years smartest nottobemissed debuts the monterey county weekly described shyboys music as a crosspollination of rjd2 dj shadow and 2001 a space odyssey arnolds understated vocals quickly erupt into fullblown soulful crooning thats irresistible for eardrums coinciding with the release of water on mars the hln news series raising america with kyra phillips selected one of the albums tracks when i close my eyes as the shows theme songin july 2014 shyboy released the interstellar travel companion mixtape containing a collection of mashups remixes and original material on october 1 2014 shyboys second fulllength lp lost in space was released the recording features collaborations with emmy awardnominated lyricist amy powers german electronic music composerdj robot koch emmy awardwinning composer jim dooley television writerproducer bryan fuller and more the collection also contains a cover of the donna summer classic she works hard for the money as lead singer for the band hypnogaja shyboy received a hollywood music in media award for best male vocalist and toured with the band throughout canada and the us he cowroteproduced numerous recordings with hypnogaja including the concept lp truth decay rated 9 out of 10 stars by outburn magazine which described it as an expertly crafted album shyboys vocal from the truth decay track welcome to the future was remixed by djs kristina sky randy boyer darude menno de jong and released on the enmass music label the songs world premiere was on bbc radio 1 by dj judge julesshyboy is a resident dj and vocalist at adrian the mysterious ds club bootie at the echoplex in los angeles hes also performed at other bootie locations including new york berlin and the dna lounge in san francisco he was nominated for best dj in the 2014 best of la weekly awards under the dj shyboy moniker he has produced numerous mashup mixtapes and concept albums the rupaul mixtape madonna summer remixes rupauls the beginning and original singles including an artist collaboration with rupaul on the shade of it all runway girl reading is fundamental its not personal its drag and oh no she better dont all released by world of wonder and featured on seasons 4 5 and 6 of vh1logos rupauls drag raceon january 27 2015 shyboys ep daisy pusher was released to digital retailers and streaming services worldwide