Amelia Ray

AMELIA RAY IS THE INTERPRETER: a polyglot, world traveler, and singer-songwriter who uses her gift for storytelling to create cultural cohesion. Her work aims to create community through shared experiences, to foster a sense of exploration, to promote an understanding of our similarities, and to celebrate our differences. 

Ray’s performances are experiments in diversity of style and mood, reflecting the complexity of the human experience. Her catalogue includes cross-genre and multilingual compositions like “Ana no potable,” a song in Spanish dedicated to a former mayor of Madrid, “Dream,,” a tribute to musicals that sounds like it came straight from a Broadway production, and “Hambone Says” – a performance piece that uses contemporary past aesthetic to explore U.S. racial and music history, and which won the Global Film Exhibition 2024 Best Music Video award. 

The San Francisco native has performed across the States and Europe, was selected to appear at the 2024 National Women’s Music Festival, and was an Art Omi: Music 2024 Musician-in-Residence. In 2020, Ray organized The Quarantuned Music Festival – a series of virtual music festivals benefitting artists affected by Covid-19 concert cancellations. She is also the founder of Europe for Ukraine – an initiative to produce an original, multilingual composition in support of Ukraine.

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