Charlene Kaye is a musician, comedian and actor based in New York. Under her rock persona KAYE, she has toured the world and opened for Arctic Monkeys, alt-J, St. Vincent, and Metallica.
As a comedian, she is currently touring her solo show “Tiger Daughter: Or, How I Brought My Immigrant Mother Ultimate Shame,” presented by comedy icon Margaret Cho. Tiger Daughter played to sold-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and it will soon be filmed as her first comedy special.
On the internet, Kaye might be most known for creating the wildly viral “Every Taylor Swift Song,” which has over 100M views and which made fans out of Questlove, Anderson .Paak and Fred Armisen. Rolling Stone recently profiled her with the headline “Why Everybody Loves Breakout Comedy Star Charlene Kaye,” and she was just interviewed by CBS mornings on how she “turned pop parody into viral gold.”
Kaye shreds guitar in two cover bands she started, Guns N’ Hoses (all-girl GNR) and Labiahead (all girl Radiohead). She has an empire of queer female cover bands in the works, including Sister of a Down, Twink 182 and an all-Asian Nine Inch Nails band called Nine Inch Nail Salon.
Kaye also has a video series which consists of her trolling dudes in Guitar Center by playing famous riffs wrong on purpose, which someone on Twitter called “pick-me behavior of the highest order.”
She is touring Tiger Daughter this fall and continues to perplex her mother by doing stand-up comedy.
