Mikhaela Faye

Mikhaela Faye is, in many ways, an artist made for the post-genre world that is currently being explored by music lovers.

Ask the Cape Town born-and-bred artist to describe her music and she settles on Alt Pop infused with elements of Jazz, R&B and electronica. Within this, there are four distinct cornerstones that inform her writing process. “There’s ‘satirical, tongue-in-cheek, zero fucks given Faye’, and also ‘I graduated with a degree in Jazz and like to play complicated chords Faye’. But there’s also ‘I'm trying to be pop but just missing the mark Faye’ and I am sensual, sophisticated and electronically curious Faye.”
 
But for an artist as relentlessly curious as Mikhaela Faye this four-cornered Alt Pop terrain is not the end-of-the story. “My chameleon brain is birthing new Fayes as we speak,” she says of her current-state of mind.