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

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 five-track self-titled EP that included "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. 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

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magazine featuring her in a February 2014 online article headlined "10 New Artists You Need To Know." In July 2014, Fayre issued 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. 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.

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included "This World" in a curated playlist titled ''Women of Indie & Alternative'' and the song was also featured in an episode of

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. Almost concurrently, Fayre released a video for "This World". In May 2015, the

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(ASCAP) announced that Fayre was a winner of their 2015 "I Create Music" EXPO Opportunity in Los Angeles. In April 2015, Fayre performed live at

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in Austin, Texas for Daytrotter. On May 20, 2015,

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, 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. On June 15, 2015,

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premiered a second track from the album, titled "Colors of Leaving." After a month-long residency at Bootleg Theater in Hollywood in February 2016, Lena Fayre was an Official Showcase Artist at

in March 2016. Also in the same month, the artist won two songwriting awards: Grand Prize Winner in Session II of

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in the World Music Category for her song "Ophelia", and Winner of "LOVE," a songwriting contest organized by the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in partnership with

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& Women's International Music Network. Fayre won the latter contest with her song "Love Burning Alive" and was invited to perform at

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for the

's Rock the Red event in late April 2016.

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

Awards

References

External links

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