Faye Webster

Faye Webster, the Atlanta-rooted indie singer-songwriter, first began composing rustic songs with country inflections at age 14. An unexpected route into the business came through membership in a rap collective, after which her trajectory has remained consistently unconventional. The self-titled 2017 debut presented vulnerable, introspective indie folk storytelling alongside a playful persona. Two further albums arrived—Atlanta Millionaires Club in 2019 and I Know I'm Funny haha in 2021—both highlighting her incisive indie pop, with the latter reaching number ten on Billboard’s Folk Albums chart. She expanded several tracks through rich orchestral scoring on the 2022 EP Car Therapy Sessions, an approach that carried forward on the 2024 album Underdressed at the Symphony.

Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, within a musical household, Webster grew up with a grandfather who played bluegrass guitar in Texas, a mother who had performed on guitar and fiddle, and an oldest brother who played in a high school rock band. She began writing and performing songs herself as a teenager. In high school she joined the rap collective PSA, a circle of friends who traded ideas and encouragement. At sixteen she self-released her first album, the rustic Americana collection Run and Tell, in 2013. During her senior year she met rapper Ethereal, who connected her with his label, Awful Records.

After graduation Webster enrolled at Belmont University in Nashville to study songwriting or graphic design, but she returned home before completing her freshman year, drawn back by Atlanta’s creative community and diversity. A photography class, together with a camera received as a Christmas gift, led her to document friends during weekend visits, some of whom were starting their own music careers. Taking inspiration from Brooklyn-based artist Kehinde Wiley, she added patterned backgrounds to her portraits and soon found herself in demand as a music photographer, shooting hip-hop artists including DRAM, Killer Mike, and former classmate Lil Yachty while still in her teens.

Intent on advancing her music, Webster signed with Awful Records, which issued her second album, the 2017 release Faye Webster, introducing a more sophisticated, confessional indie folk sound. Two years later she delivered Atlanta Millionaires Club on Secretly Canadian, an album that moved between lush R&B and pedal steel-heavy indie folk. Her profile grew through appearances on Austin City Limits and at Bonnaroo. In 2021 she released her third LP, the sharp and confident I Know I'm Funny haha, which reached number ten on Billboard’s Folk Albums chart. The EP Car Therapy Sessions followed in 2022, adding orchestral arrangements to several well-known songs. A piano-inflected single, “But Not Kiss,” surfaced in June 2023 and announced the March 2024 arrival of Underdressed at the Symphony. Working again with co-producer Drew Vandenberg, she underscored the soft, symphonic dimensions of her work while leaving space for exploration, often turning to the Vocoder, an effect used to striking result on “Lego Ring,” her collaboration with Lil Yachty.