Amelia Ray is The Interpreter – a writer, composer and performer who engages in barrier-breaking storytelling. 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. Her performances bring to life intricate, rhythmic and emotional musical stories full of characters as raw, confused and contradictory as we all are.
Ray’s 31-year career has spanned the fields of music, literature, performance art, film and humanitarianism. As a polyglot, Ray has spent decades contemplating how similar concepts are expressed differently linguistically across cultures. This research has permeated her versatile artistic work, which includes numerous cross-genre compositions, performance pieces and a one-act musical.