BLACK Country blues/folk musician Sunjay Brayne is launching his new album in Stourbridge tonight (Friday November 20).
Sunjay, who is being hailed the man of the moment, picked up a guitar at just four years old and hasn’t put it down since.
The 21-year-old Brierley Hill based singer/songwriter, was a finalist for the BBC’s Young Folk Awards in 2012 and won the Wath Festival Young Performers Award that same year.
The following year he clocked up more than a hundred live dates supporting the likes of Steeleye Span, Martin Simpson, Passenger, and Terry Reid; and in 2014 he earned three nominations at the Exposure Music Awards 2014 and was also recognised by the 2014 British Blues Awards.
Tipped as a star of the future, he’s already selling out intimate music venues across the country and has three previous albums under his belt – Seems So Real released in 2011 and One Night Only released in 2013 and the self-titled Sunjay released in 2014.
His fourth release Black & Blues, a stripped down, solo acoustic offering produced by Stourbridge musician Eddy Morton, will be launched tonight at Katie’s Fitzgerald’s in Wollaston.
Recorded in a single day at New Mountain Music Studios in August this year, the album comprises 10 traditional blues songs interpreted and arranged by Sunjay.
He said: “Quite a few of these songs I have been singing and playing since I was about five-years-old. My dad taught me Buddy Holly songs when I first started playing guitar.”
Doors at the Enville Street music venue open at 8pm.
Tickets are available on the door, For more information about Sunjay check out http://www.sunjay.tv/ or go to https://www.facebook.com/OfficialSunjay
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