Charlene Kaye spent her childhood all over the globe. Absorbing both the ol… Read Full Bio ↴Charlene Kaye spent her childhood all over the globe. Absorbing both the old soul records of her parents and the 90s grunge on the radio, she quickly became a full-fledged music obsessive, beginning with piano but soon abandoning it to teach herself punk songs on her mother’s nylon guitar.  
After college, Kaye moved to New York to pursue music. She played bass and guitar in several Brooklyn bands (including shredding as Slash in an all-girl Guns N’ Roses cover band called ‘Guns N’ Hoses’). In 2014, a mutual friend connected her with San Fermin’s Ellis Ludwig-Leone. Impressed with her voice, he asked her to be San Fermin’s new lead vocalist. This led to five years of collaboration and touring with San Fermin, with Kaye’s blistering frontwoman energy propelling their albums Jackrabbit and Belong to international audiences and festivals worldwide. This included tours supporting alt-J, The National, and St. Vincent.  
She released the critically acclaimed album Conscious Control, her first full-length in four years, in November 2020.

Conscious Control
Kaye Lyrics

what if I quit blaming myself for everything
what if I threw both of my hands up, let it be
what if I quit shaming myself for what I need
accepted all my mess, all my mistakes, my suffering

love’s not in your
conscious control
love’s not in your
conscious control

freeze a frame, floating through the cosmos belly up
i’m not okay, I don’t need to be for anyone
did you move to Brooklyn, did you quit your job
are you also lost in orbit, have you found new love?
you think I don’t care, but I never stopped

love’s not in your
conscious control
love’s not in your
conscious control

(too much, too much for anyone)
(too much to be really loved)

Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS

Written by: Charlene Kaye, Kirk Schoenherr

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