On his website, Ryan described renting a house in Nova Scotia after college to really get to work on making music and finding his sound. He explained that he rented a house in the middle of the woods for three months and “lived a life of complete seclusion.” It was there that Ryan wrote and produced music on his own, with no outside distractions.
Afterward, Ryan returned home to Michigan, where he began working on his first EP. He even went as far as to use household items to make sounds he needed if his computer or guitar weren’t up to snuff. In 2019, Ryan debuted his EP, Up My Sleeve, and it wasn’t long after that he was chosen for Listen to Your Heart. Clearly, his hope was that the ABC show could be the big break he had worked so hard for.
Source : https://www.distractify.com/p/ryan-on-listen-to-your-heart