Drew Shalka

Drew Shalka was born on March 1, 1995 in Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada as Edward Drew Shalka. He is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and Juno Award nominated songwriter. He has been the lead vocalist of the Canadian rock band FKB since 2009 and has performed hundreds of shows with the band across Canada and the United States since they began touring. The band met the Juno Award winning songwriter Clayton Bellamy at one of their shows in late 2012 where he offered to produce their debut EP 123 FKB. Following the release in 2014, the band would go on to perform alongside major artists including The Trews, Bif Naked, Pop Evil, Mother Mother, Dear Rouge, Scott Helman, Dan Davidson, and The Road Hammers. The team would reunite in 2016 for the next four FKB singles, which would collectively yield 3 Edmonton Music Award nominations. In 2018, Drew co-wrote Nuela Charles' single "Danger" which reached top 10 on CBC Music and would remain in the top 20 for nearly 3 months. The song was included on her album Distant Danger, which was nominated for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year at the 48th Annual Juno Awards in 2019. The song and album won Pop Recording of the Year and Album of the Year respectively at the Edmonton Music Awards that same year. In late 2019, Drew and the rest of FKB would all portray themselves in the feature film Moments in Spacetime.