This week Red Karaoke debuted a handful of new artists, Azure Ray being the band I was most stoked and ready to whip out a microphone for among the New Releases. Azure Ray is comprised of Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor, Alabama natives who started playing in Athens, Georgia, well known for a sweet little music scene that spit out artists like REM and the B-52´s (just to name a couple off the endless list). Fink and Taylor went about producing truly beautiful music, owning to a genre somewhere in the neighborhood of alternative folk with intimately inspirational lyrics, between 2001 and 2004, working with Saddle Creek Records in the latter part of their run.

Fink and Taylor took a hiatus for a few years after 2004 to work on their own a bit and collaborate with other group projects. Now after 5 years, the ladies are touring a but around the US before releasing their fourth album sometime in July under Saddle Creek Records.

Azure Ray has been featured on several well known soundtracks. Their single Sleep can be heard on The Devil Wears Prada and Rise was played on the popular HBO series Sex Feet Under. Fink and Taylor have also collaborated with many other groups, including Moby, whom they cowrote and sung with on the single Great Escape off his album 18. The vocals are serene and peaceful, though it´s their lyrics that really make this group incredible.

Sing one of the new Azure Ray karaokes and share your rendition in the forum.

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