Biography
New Zealand pop singer and songwriter Annabel Fay entered the world on October 23, 1988, in Auckland as the daughter of multimillionaire Sir Michael Fay. Music captivated her from an early age, prompting plans to pursue vocal performance and audio engineering at Columbia College in Chicago, yet those intentions shifted after a music promoter caught her singing at a New Zealand holiday party, urged her to lay down several demos, and then presented the recordings to Siren Records. The label promptly signed her and issued her first single, “Lovin’ You,” in 2006 while she was still nineteen; the track climbed into New Zealand’s Top Ten. An album followed, produced by Brady Blade and released by Siren Records in 2007 under the title Annabel Fay. Its solid reception led to a deal with EMI Records, which put out her second album, Show Me the Right Way, in 2011. Reviewers met the project coolly, especially after reports surfaced that Fay had secured a substantial government subsidy from New Zealand to fund the sessions—a development widely viewed as superfluous in light of her father’s considerable fortune. Despite the criticism, the album climbed to number eight on New Zealand’s Top 40 albums chart. A third studio effort, Brave the Rain, arrived during the summer of 2012.
Albums
