Interview with Horace Bray

Published: April 21, 2021, 3:16 p.m.

We had the pleasure of interviewing Horace Bray over Zoom video!
LA-based pop artist Horace Bray has shared his new EP Fame, Fortune, and Perfume. Self-produced and self-assured, the new EP is a stunning five-song collection that guides listeners through Bray\u2019s post-grad travels from New York City to L.A. and all the tumult and heartbreak in between.
In studying jazz performance and music theory at the University of North Texas, 29-year old Bray became the first undergraduate in 15 years to hold the guitar chair in the Grammy-nominated One O\u2019Clock Lab Band. Since moving to Los Angeles, the guitarist-producer has amassed over 120 thousand Instagram followers for his amicable guitar tutorials and genre-hopping instrumental covers including his spellbinding take on Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." He\u2019s played for celebrities like Sofia Carson and Jordan Fisher. All that makes for quite the r\xe9sum\xe9, but doesn\u2019t even reveal the most exciting part: Horace Bray is blossoming into a singer-songwriter to be reckoned with.
Fame, Fortune, and Perfume plays out like a series of snapshots through Horace Bray\u2019s life, navigating relationships, desires, and fears -- a constant search for what\u2019s real. The kaleidoscopic title track comes from Bray\u2019s first taste of running with the starstruck L.A. crowd. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of smoke and mirrors, a lot of money being thrown around,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re talking to people that always have their foot in the door just in case something better comes around. There's some real homies out here, but then you meet people that make you understand why people think L.A. is superficial.\u201d
Beyond Fame, Fortune, and Perfume, expect more innovation, collaborations, and collections of songs. Instead of locking himself away in the studio like so many virtuosos before him, Horace Bray remains constantly accessible: through his quirky TikTok and Instagram covers, livestreams of his originals, and the guitar tutorials that keep him on the pulse of how kids relate to his craft. Fame, Fortune, and Perfume stands as Horace Bray\u2019s introduction to a new world of possibilities.
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