Shamir Bailey Biography
Biography
Shamir Bailey grew up in the Northtown neighborhood of Las Vegas, where he discovered musical inspiration from his songwriter aunt and artists like Billie Holiday, OutKast, and Janis Joplin. He learned to play the guitar by himself after receiving one from his mother when he was nine years old (albeit upside down).
Bailey founded the indie pop duet Anorexia with his friend Christina Thompson, which performed at South by Southwest in 2013 and issued the EP Bedroom Songs. Shamir also started creating dance-oriented tracks around this time. Shamir is an eclectic musician who crosses low-fi indie rock, country, and witty electro-pop. He is distinguished by his confessional songwriting and moving countertenor voice.
Career & Projects
Producer Nick Sylvester, who has worked with artists like Grace Jones and the DFA Records roster, was enlisted by Shamir to help him shape some of his work. Shamir’s new approach resulted in pulsing yet moving songs as a result of Sylvester’s assistance. “If It Wasn’t True,” the first product of their collaboration, was released on Sylvester’s God Mode label in February 2014.
The Northtown EP, which featured the song and a cover of the song “Lived and Died Alone” by Canadian country singer Lindi Ortega, was released in June of that year. Soon after the EP was released, Shamir signed with XL. Following the release of his debut album, Ratchet, in May 2015, he spent the following two years on tour with Years & Years and Troye Sivan.
His 2014 EP Northtown and 2015 full-length Ratchet received positive reviews from critics thanks to their fusion of ’90s house, pop, and R&B. On 2017, his self-released album Hope, he went back to the more raw sound and soul-baring songwriting of his early music-making days. He had to create music that felt more authentic to himself. From then, he pursued his inspiration wherever it led him, resulting in the pop-infused Heterosexuality in 2022 and the twangy Be the Yee, Here Comes the Haw in 2019.
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