Port Moody tween popster Tyson Venegas is hitting the flat screen Sunday.
The 12-year-old crooner will be appearing on NBC’s Little Big Shots, which airs at 8 p.m.
The show, which is hosted by comedian Steve Harvey, features young performers and prodigies from around the world who sing, play music, blow soap bubbles, fly through the air on a trapeze or even astound with their acumen in arithmetic.
Venegas, who goes by the name “Ty Waters” on the episode entitled "Beauty and the Steve," has been quickly building his musical career that emulates his hero, Burnaby’s Michael Bublé. In 2013, Venegas won the PNE’s Star Showdown by performing "Route 66" — with Bublé in the crowd — then, two years later, he wowed the American Protégé International music talent and vocal competition. That earned him the opportunity to perform twice in the Weill Recital Hall at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. He sang two jazz songs, "At Last" and "Fly Me to the Moon." Venegas has also performed twice at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.
When Venegas isn’t hobnobbing with musical stars like drummer Kenny Aronoff, who’s kept rhythm for the likes of John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, producer Rami Jaffee, who’s worked with the Wallflowers and Foo Fighters, and keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, who’s tickled the ivories for Lionel Ritchie and Aretha Franklin, he performs local gigs, often for charitable causes such as the Treasures of Christmas gala for Crossroads Hospice. Last November, he released a holiday single, "Everything I Want for Christmas," to support Music Heals Canada.
