AMELIA RAY 
IS THE CONSTANT TRAVELLER.

Part storyteller, part musician, and possible spy who has performed in 25 countries and speaks seven languages. Amelia’s unique perspective and songwriting ability inspires Cultural Cohesion – a celebration of our diversity and common understanding of our shared experience through music.

Cracking the code of what it means to be human, Ray has written compositions like “Ana no potable” – a song in Spanish in the voice of a disgruntled constituent to a lousy mayor –, “Dream” – a tribute to musicals dedicated to anyone who’s ever pursued their passions – and “Hambone Says” – a performance piece that uses a contemporary past aesthetic to explore U.S. racial and music history, and which won the Global Film Exhibition 2024 Best Music Video award. Her latest single, “Pretending to Read,” sees our protagonist covertly people-watching on the subway while using a book as a clever disguise for her true intentions.

Her performances function as experiments in cultural cohesion—shifting styles and moods to reflect the complexity of lived experience. She has performed in 25 countries, appearing everywhere from intimate listening rooms to major festivals, including the National Women’s Music Festival, Silicon Valley Pride, and the NPR-syndicated Martha Bassett Show. In 2024, she was an Art Omi musician-in-residence, and in 2025, she completed a 40-show tour across the United States and Canada.

Offstage, Ray extends her work into community action. The San Francisco Bay Area native organized and hosted 2020’s Quarantuned Music Festival – a series of virtual music festivals benefitting artists affected by Covid-19 concert cancellations – and founded Europe for Ukraine, an initiative to produce an original multilingual composition in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. She also leads financial empowerment and songwriting workshops for artists worldwide.

PRESS

“Amelia Ray visits RadioRadioX,” 14 August 2025
Amelia Ray, Interview, WEXT Podcast, 29 July 2025
“On ‘Pretending to Read,’ Amelia Ray Interprets our Everyday Struggles,” Gerard Longo, UMC Worldwide, 07 July 2025
"Amelia Ray strips down the soul with "Pretending to Read," HypeHub Magazine, 04 July 2025
"Amelia Ray flips the scripts with new single "Pretending to Read," Lyrical Odyssey, 04 July 2025
Amelia Ray, Interview, Sisters in Song Podcast, July 2025
Amelia Ray, Interview, KUPR 99.9 FM Placitas, NM, 11 August 2024
Amelia Ray, Interview, KALX 90.7 FM Berkeley, 03 July 2024
Amelia Ray, Interview, MUSIC is not a GENRE podcast, 29 June 2024
Amelia Ray, Interview, Dinya Magazine, March 2024
Amelia Ray, Interview, The Misty Music Podcast, 25 February 2024
Andrew Zhang, “Amelia Ray’s ‘Hambone Says’: A Harrowing Role-Reversal on Race,” Two Story Melody, 22 October 2020