Melanie Faye

Melanie Faye
Residence Nashville, Tennesse
Occupation Guitarist
Years active 2016 - present
Website rainbow_fever_1998_

Melanie Faye (born 1998) is an American R&B[1] musician and social media personality. She became known after a video of her guitar playing on Instagram went viral in the summer of 2017.[2] She has since performed with artists such as Noname[3] and Mac Demarco.[4][5] She was a featured artist at the NAMM Show.

Early life and education

Born in Huntsville, Alabama and raised in a Jehovah's Witness household by chemist parents,[6] Faye began writing songs at an early age. Her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was three, and in the third grade she won a music competition run by the Country Music Hall of Fame.[3] She studied jazz guitar at the performing arts high school Nashville School of the Arts.[6]

Career

Faye's guitar skills came to prominence in the summer of 2017 when SZA retweeted a 2016 video of Faye playing her sky blue Fender Stratocaster. Amassing a large number of followers and receiving critical acclaim, she dropped out of school to pursue music full-time.[3] She cites Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, and Eric Gales as major influences on her playing style, which varies between R&B, neo-soul, and funk. She has performed nationwide with associated soul and R&B acts such as Noname, Bibi McGill, Masego, and Dammo. She was featured on the cover of She Shreds magazine,[7] and was chosen by Fender to demo the Player Series of guitars.[8][9]

Her extended play recording "HomoPhone" is due out in 2018.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Johnson, Hailey (21 March 2018). "An Interview with Melanie Faye: R&B Artist On the Rise". Affinity Magazine.
  2. ↑ Starling, Lakin (3 August 2017). "Melanie Faye's Divine Guitar Skills Will Make You Cry". The Fader. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  3. 1 2 3 Blackman, Rachel (8 January 2018). "Striking A Chord With Melanie Faye". These Days News. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  4. ↑ Helman, Peter (12 April 2018). "Mac DeMarco & Melanie Faye – "Eternally 12"". Stereogum. Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  5. ↑ Britton, Luke (1 May 2018). "Mac DeMarco's new track 'Eternally 12' is a super smooth slow jam". NME. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  6. 1 2 Paulson, Dave (19 May 2018). "Guitar Hero". The Tennessean. 114 (139). USA Today Network. pp. 1A, 16A. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
  7. ↑ Reyna, Fabi (February 2018). "Melanie Faye". She Shreds. No. 14. pp. 42–51.
  8. ↑ DeBord, Matthew (19 June 2018). "Fender is renewing its commitment to budget-minded players with a revamped line of affordable electric guitars". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  9. ↑ Hermann, Andy (26 June 2018). "Women Are Saving the Electric Guitar". Los Angeles Magazine.
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