Lena Fayre

Lena Fayre
Background information
Born July 7, 1996 (age 19)
Genres Indie pop
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter
Years active 2012-present
Labels Semper Augustus Records (her own label)
Website lenafayre.com
Notable instruments
Vocals, Synth, Percussionist, Guitarist

Lena Fayre, (pronounced "Lay-nah Fair") (born July 7, 1996) is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She is half Dutch.[1]

Career

Fayre released her debut single, Belong To You, in December 2012. Weeks later, she released a video for "Belong To You" and won "Best Music Video" at the 2013 Williamsburg International Film Festival.

In June 2013, Fayre released a self-titled EP featuring five songs, including "Belong To You." Weeks later, she uploaded a music video for another song from her EP titled "Jukebox Love." In August 2013, the "Unsigned Only Music Competition" announced that Fayre finished second in the Teen category of its 2013 edition with her song "Silver," also from her EP.[2] In November 2013, Fayre released a video for yet another song off her EP, titled "Love Burning Alive." Several songs from Fayre's EP were featured in Video Star. Fayre's EP also caught the attention of the music press with Rolling Stone magazine featuring her in a February 2014 online article headlined "10 New Artists You Need To Know."[3]

In July 2014, Fayre dropped a single titled "I Am Not A Man," which was included in her 11-song album named "Oko," which she released in August 2014. To promote "Oko," Fayre performed at venues throughout Southern California during the summer of 2014 impressing music bloggers.[4][5] In September 2014, Fayre released a music video for "I Am Not A Man." In November 2014, Fayre uploaded a video with an acoustic version of one of the songs from "Oko," titled "Start A War." Months later, she released a video for a third song off the album, called "Everybody’s In." Fayre’s album received critical acclaim in the form of a "CD of the Year" award by the online publication Indie Music Digest.[6]

Fayre released a single titled "This World" in February 2015. Spotify included "This World" in a curated playlist titled Women of Indie & Alternative and the song was also featured in an episode of The CW network show The Vampire Diaries.[7] Almost concurrently, Fayre released a video for This World.[8]

In May 2015, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced that Fayre was a winner of their 2015 "I Create Music" EXPO Opportunity in Los Angeles.[9]

In April 2015, Fayre was the subject of an article in Teen Vogue, with the headline: "Introducing Lena Fayre, Your Next Teenage Dream."[10] Also in April 2015, Fayre performed live during South by Southwest in Austin Texas for Daytrotter,[11] While at SXSW, Fayre also performed at The Spider House. On May 20, 2015, Noisey, a website owned by the popular print/online magazine VICE, premiered "Do You Like That?," a track from Lena Fayre’s EP "Is There Only One?" and announced that this EP will be released in late July 2015.[12] On June 15, 2015, SPIN (magazine) premiered a second track from "Is There Only One," titled "Colors of Leaving."[13]

After a month-long residency at The Bootleg in Hollywood in February 2016,[14] Lena Fayre was an Official Showcase Artist at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, in March 2016.[15] Also in March 2016, Fayre won two songwriting awards: Grand Prize Winner in Session II of The John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the World Music Category for her song "Ophelia",[16] and Winner of "LOVE," a songwriting contest organized by The John Lennon Songwriting Contest in partnership with American Heart Association & Women's International Music Network. Fayre won the latter contest with her song "Love Burning Alive" and was invited to perform at The Grammy Museum for the American Heart Association's Rock the Red event in late April 2016.[17]

On April 18, 2016, fashion and culture magazine Flaunt premiered the music video for Fayre's single "Cry" on Flaunt.com with the headline: "Our electropop crush drops her latest video and it's a real chiller."[18] Later in April, 2016, NPR member station KCRW featured Fayre and her song "Cry" in their music blog under the caption "Artists You Should Know" and described Fayre's accomplishments to-date with the statement: "it all adds up to an artist on the move!"[19]

Discography

Albums

EPs

Singles

Music videos

Year Title Director Ref.
2013 "Belong To You" Leah McKissock
"Jukebox Love" Adam Blake Carver
"Love Burning Alive" Leah McKissock [20]
2014 "I Am Not A Man" Ted Newsome [21]
"Start A War" Ted Newsome [22]
2015 "Everybody's In" Constance Abram [23]
"This World" Chelsea McCarthy [24]
"Possession" Alan Del Rio Ortiz [25]
2016 "Cry" Alan Del Rio Ortiz [26]

Awards

Year Competition Category Song/Video Result Ref
2013 Williamsburg International Film Festival Music Video Belong To You Winner
2013 Unsigned Only Music Competition Teen Silver Runner-Up
2014 Indie Music Digest CD of the Year 2014 Oko (Album) Winner
2015 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers I Create Music Expo NA Winner
2015 Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival Music Videos Possession Winner [27]
2015 Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood Music Videos Possession Winner [28]
2015 Prestige Music Award Music Videos Possession Gold Winner [29]
2015 International Songwriting Competition Music Videos Possession Finalist [30]
2015 Song of the Year Contest Songwriting Take the Waters Runner Up [31]
2015 The John Lennon Songwriting Contest World Ophelia Grand Prize Winner [32]
2016 John Lennon Contest, American Heart Assoc. & Women's Int. Music Network. "LOVE" Contest Love Burning Alive Winner [33]

References

  1. ↑ "LENA FAYRE'S "DO YOU LIKE THAT?" IS A DARK AND TWISTED KIND OF POP". Vice.com. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Wes Mack Named Grand Prize Winner In Unsigned Only Songwriters Competition". CelebrityAccess. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ "10 New Artists You Need to Know: February 2014". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Lena Fayre hushes the Hotel Café with an ethereal, mesmerizing performance by Patrick O’Heffernan". Music Junkie Press. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Lena Fayre At Summer Scene, Santa Monica Place, Saturday August 9th 2014". Rock NYC. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Lena Fayre - OKO". Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ "THE VAMPIRE DIARIES". The CW. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Lena Fayre". last.fm. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  9. ↑ "ASCAP "I CREATE MUSIC" EXPO Opportunity Winners". Worldart.com. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.teenvogue.com/entertainment/music/2015-04/sound-scout-lena-fayre-interview
  11. ↑ "Lena Fayre Apr 16, 2015 Good Danny's, Austin, TX". Daytrotter.com. Retrieved August 5, 2015. line feed character in |title= at position 11 (help)
  12. ↑ "LENA FAYRE'S "DO YOU LIKE THAT?" IS A DARK AND TWISTED KIND OF POP". noisey.vice.com. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Lena Fayre Paints With ‘Colors of Leaving’ on New Single". Spin.com. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  14. ↑ "REVERBNATION CONNECT PRESENT: LENA FAYRE RESIDENCY AT BOOTLEG THEATER". weareconnect. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  15. ↑ "Schedule *Lena Fayre". www.sxsw.com/. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  16. ↑ "2015 Grand Prize Winners - Session II". jls.com. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  17. ↑ "The John Lennon Songwriting Contest presents LOVE: a songwriting contest in partnership with the American Heart Association & Women's International Music Network.". jls.com. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  18. ↑ "LENA FAYRE "CRY" VIDEO PREMIERE Our electropop crush drops her latest video and it's a real chiller.". flaunt.com. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Artists You Should Know Lena Fayre "Cry"". kcrw.com. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  20. ↑ https://vimeo.com/81950293
  21. ↑ "Lena Fayre - I Am Not A Man - Music Video - MTV". MTV.
  22. ↑ "Lena Fayre "Start a War" - Ted Newsome".
  23. ↑ "Yahoo Video".
  24. ↑ "Lena Fayre - This World - Music Video - MTV". MTV.
  25. ↑ "LENA FAYRE "POSSESSION"". Alan Del Rio Ortiz.
  26. ↑ "Flaunt Magazine - Music: Lena Fayre — "Cry" Video Premiere". Flaunt Magazine.
  27. ↑ "los angeles new wave international film festival THE NEXT FACTOR IN INTERNATIONAL CINEMA HOMESUBMISSIONSAWARDSPRESSPHOTOS BUY FESTIVAL PASSESARCHIVECONTACT USFALL 2015 festival Winners".
  28. ↑ "2015 Winners (Fall)".
  29. ↑ Stewart Feldman. "Prestige Award for Music".
  30. ↑ "International Songwriting Competition - The #1 Song Contest for Songwriters".
  31. ↑ "Songwriting Contest - Lena Fayre".
  32. ↑ "John Lennon Songwriting Contest".
  33. ↑ "John Lennon LOVE Songwriting Contest".

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