Amelia Ray

Amelia Ray is The Interpreter. This writer, composer and performer engages in barrier-breaking storytelling, and her 31-year career has spanned the fields of music, literature, performance art, film and humanitarianism.

Ray’s soul-rock compositions aim to improve understanding and communication between people from different backgrounds. 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 the award-winning trip through U.S. racial and music history “Hambone Says”.

The San Francisco native has performed across the States and Europe, and was selected to appear at the 2024 National Women’s Music Festival. Her performances bring to life intricate, rhythmic and emotional musical stories that are full of characters as raw, confused and contradictory as we all are.