ShyBoy’s music has amassed millions of streams and appeared in major films, video games, and TV shows including RuPaul's Drag Race, Dynasty, America's Next Top Model, Devil May Cry 4, and Halloween. He has collaborated with Emmy-winning icon RuPaul, hip-hop legend SlimKid3 (The Pharcyde), EDM star Darude, Emmy-winning composer Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies), and Grammy-winning, multiplatinum songwriter Allee Willis. ShyBoy also composed the score for Bryan Fuller’s Emmy-nominated documentary series Queer For Fear: The History of Queer Horror and has five new music tracks featured in Fuller’s forthcoming feature film Dust Bunny (starring Mads Mikkelsen and Sigourney Weaver), arriving in theaters worldwide on December 5 via Lionsgate.
Beyond his solo work, ShyBoy is the lead singer and co-founder of Hypnogaja, a critically acclaimed alternative rock band known for its cinematic storytelling and genre-blending sound. The band recently reunited to release the single “Escalate,” praised by journalist Larry Flick as “a layered, occasionally menacing single that threads the needle between goth rock gloom and industrial pop urgency.”
Named Best Solo Artist in LA Weekly’s 10th Annual Best of L.A. Awards, ShyBoy is also the co-founder of indie label The Spaceman Agency and the creator of iconic dance parties like MaDonna Summer, Rihyoncé, Gaga Lipa, Britney Houston, and Kylie xcx, with residencies in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Palm Springs, and beyond. He was the featured DJ at the official premiere party for the Broadway revival of West Side Story in New York City, created a mashup mix and medley for The B-52's 2022 farewell concert tour, and created mixes for several seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race. His remix credits include “Everybody Say Love (ShyBoy Remix)” for RuPaul and “Supernatural Love (ShyBoy Remix)” for Donna Summer.
Hypnogaja’s “This isn’t going to end well…” opens with a quiet warning — a lone guitar and voice tracing the contours of collapse — before erupting into a widescreen rock opera of distortion, melody, and menace. Frontman ShyBoy delivers a vocal equal parts confession and prophecy, while Jeeve drives the song toward chaos with cinematic precision. By the end, it becomes a full-blown melodic metal anthem — everything unraveling, yet finding power in defeat.
Hypnogaja’s “Things That Go Bump in the Night” channels the grandeur of ’70s stadium rock while adding the band’s own cinematic edge. Recorded at guitarist Jeeve’s Los Angeles studio, it opens with gothic strings and piano that set a dark yet playful foundation before swelling with guitars, drums, and layered vocals into a widescreen, theatrical anthem. Lyrically, lead singer ShyBoy twists the classic monster-in-the-dark trope inward, revealing that the fear we dread isn’t an outside force but the voice in our own heads: “I’m the thing that goes bump in the night.”
OUT NOW: Donna Summer - Cats Without Claws: 40th Anniversary Edition 2 disc set, featuring “Supernatural Love (ShyBoy Remix)” • Remix and Additional Production by ShyBoy (Jason Arnold) and Mark Nubar for The Spaceman Agency LLC
“Darkroom powers activate… watch this gritty masterpiece.”
“‘Backroom’ is timelessly fun, with vocals that are slick, rich, and addictive.”
“Seductive and alluring... ShyBoy’s vocal range is phenomenal.”
ShyBoy’s new album His Royal Shyness (King Size Edition) dives deep into themes of intimacy, desire, and emotional tension through a cinematic pop lens. Out now via Stockholm-based Snafu Records, the expanded LP features extended versions of every track from His Royal Shyness, along with several new songs and remixes. The fierce and otherworldly “Dildo Machine (After Hours Remix),” featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Alaska Thunderf**k, is a dark, late-night club burner built for the dance floor. “Green Lights and Red Flags (Tetramorph Remix)” shimmers with synthwave textures, sweeping strings, and irresistible after-hours energy. “Brand New Maybe” offers a slow-burning confessional wrapped in lush electric piano and crisp 808s—minimalist in structure but emotionally rich. Closing the collection is a stripped-down cover of Lana Del Rey’s “Norman f**king Rockwell,” a raw, soul-baring interpretation that amplifies the haunting beauty of the original.
The original score and soundtrack from the Emmy-nominated Shudder docuseries Queer For Fear, featuring score and title songs by ShyBoy and including a new duet with Alaska (RuPaul’s Drag Race)
Watch the Queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11 perform to mixes by DJ ShyBoy
Watch the Queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11 perform to mixes by DJ ShyBoy