Lena Fayre

Lena Fayre, (pronounced "Lay-nah Fair") is a Dutch-American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California.[1]

Lena Fayre
Lena Fayre in 2016
Background information
GenresIndie pop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
Years active2012–present
LabelsSemper Augustus Records
Websitelenafayre.com

Career

Fayre released her debut single, "Belong to You", in December 2012. Weeks later, she released a video for the song 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." A few 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 the same EP.[2] In November 2013, Fayre released a video for yet another song off her EP, titled "Love Burning Alive." The album 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 on her debut album titled 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] In September 2014, Fayre released a music video for "I Am Not a Man." In November 2014, she 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 from the album, called "Everybody’s In".

The artist 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.[5] Almost concurrently, Fayre released a video for "This World".[6]

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.[7]

In April 2015, Fayre performed live at SXSW in Austin, Texas for Daytrotter.[8] 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 would be released in late July 2015.[9] On June 15, 2015, SPIN premiered a second track from the album, titled "Colors of Leaving."[10]

After a month-long residency at Bootleg Theater in Hollywood in February 2016,[11] Lena Fayre was an Official Showcase Artist at SXSW in March 2016.[12] Also in the same month, the artist 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",[13] 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.

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."[14] Later in April, 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!"[15]

Discography

Albums
  • Oko (2014)

EPs
  • Lena Fayre (2013)
  • Is There Only One? (2015)

Singles
  • "Belong to You" (2012)
  • "I Am Not a Man" (2014)
  • "This World" (2015)
  • "Cry" (2016)

Music videos
Year Title Director Ref.
2013 "Belong to You" Leah McKissock
"Jukebox Love" Adam Blake Carver
"Love Burning Alive" Leah McKissock [16]
2014 "I Am Not a Man" Ted Newsome [17]
"Start a War" Ted Newsome [18]
2015 "Everybody's In" Constance Abram [19]
"This World" Chelsea McCarthy [20]
"Possession" Alan Del Rio Ortiz [21]
2016 "Cry" Alan Del Rio Ortiz [22]

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 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 [23]
2015 Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood Music Videos "Possession" Winner [24]
2015 Prestige Music Award Music Videos "Possession" Gold Winner [25]
2015 International Songwriting Competition Music Videos "Possession" Finalist [26]
2015 Song of the Year Contest Songwriting "Take the Waters" Runner-up [27]
2015 The John Lennon Songwriting Contest World "Ophelia" Grand Prize Winner [28]
2015 The Hollywood Songwriting Contest Performance "Do You Like That?" Winner [29]
2016 John Lennon Contest, American Heart Assoc. & Women's Int. Music Network. "LOVE" Contest "Love Burning Alive" Winner [30]

References
  1. "LENA FAYRE'S "DO YOU LIKE THAT?" IS A DARK AND TWISTED KIND OF POP". Vice.com. May 20, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  2. "Unsigned Only Previous Winners". unsignedonly.com. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  3. "10 New Artists You Need to Know: February 2014". Rollingstone.com. February 21, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  4. "Lena Fayre hushes the Hotel Café with an ethereal, mesmerizing performance by Patrick O'Heffernan". Music Junkie Press. August 4, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  5. "THE VAMPIRE DIARIES". The CW. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  6. "The Vampire Diaries Soundtrack". tunefind.com. April 23, 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  7. "ASCAP "I CREATE MUSIC" EXPO Opportunity Winners". Worldart.com. April 23, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
  8. "Lena Fayre". indieinternational.com. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  9. "LENA FAYRE'S "DO YOU LIKE THAT?" IS A DARK AND TWISTED KIND OF POP". noisey.vice.com. May 20, 2015. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
  10. "Lena Fayre Paints With 'Colors of Leaving' on New Single". Spin.com. June 15, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
  11. "Lena Fayre Residency, VOX, AKW". dola.com. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  12. "Schedule *Lena Fayre". www.sxsw.com/. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  13. "2015 Grand Prize Winners – Session II". jls.com. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  14. "Lena Fayre Unveils Music Video for New Single "Cry"". ventsmagazine.com. April 19, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  15. "Artists You Should Know Lena Fayre "Cry"". kcrw.com. April 26, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2016.
  16. https://vimeo.com/81950293
  17. "Lena Fayre – I Am Not A Man – Music Video – MTV". MTV.
  18. "Lena Fayre "Start a War" – Ted Newsome".
  19. "Yahoo Video".
  20. "Lena Fayre – This World – Music Video – MTV". MTV.
  21. "LENA FAYRE "POSSESSION"". Alan Del Rio Ortiz. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
  22. "Flaunt Magazine – Music: Lena Fayre — "Cry" Video Premiere". Flaunt Magazine.
  23. "los angeles new wave international film festival THE NEXT FACTOR IN INTERNATIONAL CINEMA HOMESUBMISSIONSAWARDSPRESSPHOTOS BUY FESTIVAL PASSESARCHIVECONTACT USFALL 2015 festival Winners".
  24. "2015 Winners (Fall)".
  25. Stewart Feldman. "Prestige Award for Music".
  26. "International Songwriting Competition – The #1 Song Contest for Songwriters".
  27. "Songwriting Contest – Lena Fayre".
  28. "John Lennon Songwriting Contest".
  29. "Hollywood Songwriting Contest Winners".
  30. "John Lennon LOVE Songwriting Contest".
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