Ryan Follese has spent most of his life making music, first as the lead singer of the pop group Hot Chelle Rae, and now as a solo country artist, but before all of that he had some other interesting jobs. Ryan shares, “I was a bus boy at a Japanese hibachi grill restaurant when I was in high school and that was a terrible job. I was a tape copy boy at my dad’s publishing company for a couple years. So that kind of gave me like a cool education in music and also made me realize that is not the job that I want to do.”
One little known fact about Ryan that he doesn’t tell many people is that he has a black belt in martial arts, and he used to give private lessons. He says, “I taught martial arts privately for a couple of years. I actually taught, there’s a writer in town, Jeffrey Steele, I used to teach his kids martial arts and I would teach other kids martial arts.”
Ryan’s teaching days are behind him now that he’s had a successful pop career and he’s about to launch his first single called “Put A Label On It,” to country radio. The song will be on his debut country CD, which will be released this Friday.”
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Ryan Follese – Labor Day :36
“I was a bus boy at a Japanese hibachi grill restaurant when I was in high school and that was a terrible job. I was a tape copy boy at my dad’s publishing company for a couple years. So that kind of gave me like a cool education in music and also made me realize that is not the job that I want to do. Other than that, I taught, and this is kind of weird, and actually I don’t tell a lot of people this, so that’s kind of cool, I taught martial arts privately for a couple of years. I actually taught, there’s a writer in town, Jeffrey Steele, I used to teach his kids martial arts and I would teach other kids martial arts.”