| | Lena Fayre (pronounced "Lay-nah Fair") is a Dutch-American singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California. 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 Rolling Stone 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. 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. Almost concurrently, Fayre released a video for "This World".
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.
In April 2015, Fayre performed live at SXSW in Austin, Texas for Daytrotter. 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.
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