Toronto Song Project

Can you sing? Do you have a good story? Steve would love to write you a song.

Can you sing? Do you have a good story? Steve would love to write you a song. Steve is looking for singers, musicians, artists… any and all talent in the Toronto area who would like to collaborate and create an original song. A great song. A once in a lifetime experience. Watch some episodes, think about what you want and hit Steve up!

Toronto Song Project is…

A Video and Social Media series focusing on local talent and their unique life journey using music. Each ten-minute episode follows director and songwriter, Steve Diguer throughout the GTA, on his quest to find single, passionate people with a talent for singing and an interesting story to tell.  Steve then uses their story to write an original song for them to sing, while filming the entire journey.

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Toronto Song Project is a work in progress and will only get better with your feedback!  Please leave a comment below and find us on social media.

Watch The Full Episodes

Russell David talks about the challenges of appearing without makeup, a sparkly dress, and fabulous shoes
A life changing turn around starts with a memory of abuse and a meeting with her abuser WATCH MADDIE’S STORY

Toronto and Russell invite the world to COME PLAY

Toronto World Pride is the backdrop for Russell’s original song “Come Play,” an explosion of colour, sunshine, and sound, and more than a little alcohol.  There are costumes, parade floats, and a fake Rob Ford.  It’s a fabulous day where Russell and the city of Toronto invite the world to COME PLAY.

Watch The Web Series: Shawn’s Story With Extras

Because Steve created Toronto Song Project as web series, you can watch Steve and Shawn’s journey as a playlist with extras. Follow Steve’s songwriting process that leads to the creation of Shawn’s original song I WON’T FEEL SORRY.

Struggling, writing, surviving in a shelter, how Kevin fell into DEEP WATER.

Kevin talks about arriving in Canada at age 7, as a refugee, in the dead of winter, from the island of Dominica.  He had never seen a dog on a leash, let alone in a sweater with socks.

From an empty room at Turning Point Youth Services. Kevin recalls an act of pure cruelty from his estranged father where Kevin almost drowned.  That event set the stage for Kevin’s life and the problems that followed him.

Thanks to a music program at another nearby shelter, Kevin is already writing and recording music.  Steve offers to collaborate on an original song.  He gives Kevin a title and a chorus.  DEEP WATER.  Kevin takes it from there.

Shawn Episode 5: An E-PI-PHA-NY

Shawn Ep.#5: One last chat before writing Shawn’s song. Looking ahead and back at his life, Shawn has a big moment of truth. Could this be his anthem?

Shawn Episode 4: A Cool Little Guy

Shawn Ep.#4: A horse is a source of sanity as Shawn discovers, and Filo turns out to be the perfect anti-depressant. Also a trip to the country and some Car-aoke!

Shawn Episode 3: Mom

She was 15 when she gave birth to him. Shawn tells the moving, powerful story of him Mom.

Toronto Song Project presents Shawn Costanzo.

On the one hand, he had an idyllic, Tom Sawyer like childhood: free-range, unsupervised, roaming his west end neighborhood down to the Humber River. On the hand, his teenage Mom was neglectful, and their relationship was short lived. Shawn is an inspiration and a glowing example of resilience and overcoming pain and loss. And that singing is the best therapy.

Shawn Episode 2: My Unsupervised 80s Childhood

Meet Shawn! He’s fun, sincere, and I just want to hug him all the time. I had many choices of titles for this episode: “I Have Nothing”, “Definitely Not Leave It To Beaver”, and “Wait, that sounded kinda good…”. Sadly, I could only pick one.

Toronto Song Project presents Shawn Costanzo.

On the one hand, he had an idyllic, Tom Sawyer like childhood: free-range, unsupervised, roaming his west end neighborhood down to the Humber River. On the hand, his teenage Mom was neglectful, and their relationship was short lived. Shawn is an inspiration and a glowing example of resilience and overcoming pain and loss. And that singing is the best therapy.

Shawn Episode 1: Tamara, Queen of Bounce

Steve is super excited to hit the road and launch a new, revamped Toronto Song Project. Tamara shows off her bounce skills! Not the musical kind, the photography kind.

Toronto Song Project presents Shawn Costanzo.

On the one hand, he had an idyllic, Tom Sawyer like childhood: free-range, unsupervised, roaming his west end neighborhood down to the Humber River. On the hand, his teenage Mom was neglectful, and their relationship was short lived. Shawn is an inspiration and a glowing example of resilience and overcoming pain and loss. And that singing is the best therapy.

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I HAVE NOTHING Most Important Song To Me