TAE PHOENIX

Singer-Songwriter • Activist • Writer

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A natural-born storyteller with the polish of an accomplished actress and the authentic edge of a seasoned blues musician.

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Music

Featured Track: “I wanna see you be brave.”

Music is the art form we turn to when we need to build bridges and make ourselves plainly understood.

In January 2020, the United States was in crisis. The president was holding vital defense support to Ukraine hostage as a means of coercing their government into investigating the son of a political rival.

My civil disobedience action inside the Senate’s Russell Rotunda – performing Sara Bareilles’ “Brave” in an area where protest is strictly forbidden – was a call on Republican Senators to join Democrats in voting to remove that corrupt president from office.

More Music

Everyone You’ll Be EP • Studio Album Release Date: Feb 2024
Home demos…

Tae Phoenix · The Girls You'll Be Demos
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Tour Dates

CityDateTimeVenue
Boston8/7/23TBABerklee Performance Center*
Boston8/8/233:30pmCafe 939
New York8/14/236pmRockwood Music Hall
Washington, DC8/17/232-4pmWOWD Radio
Reston, VA8/18/236pmLake Anne Plaza
* I am a backup singer as part of a larger ensemble.

Bio / Artist Statement

My name is Tae Phoenix and my favorite party game is “two truths and a lie.” See if you can guess which is which:

The answer is in the footer of the website.

My work is about themes that everyone can relate to on some level: rejecting conformity, embracing authenticity, and finding the connections between healing ourselves and building the world we want.

Sometimes, when I’m stuck on where a musical idea belongs, I’ll write lyrics from the perspective of a fictional character and see where that takes me. I love this approach because I tend to obsess over stories: telling them, absorbing them, analyzing them. It doesn’t really matter as long as I’m immersed. I’ve written songs that started out as screenplays and the beginnings of musicals that I originally thought were novels. It all makes me ridiculously happy.

My favorite thing about using music as a storytelling vehicle is that a well-timed and well-written song can convey a tremendous amount of information just with the placement of a quarter note rest. I learned this the first time I performed in a Sondheim show. (“Into the Woods.”) I looked at the score, thought, “wow! It’s turtles all the way down, “and never looked back.

The performing arts world is a wonderful place for many reasons, but it’s also not an easy space for me to enter. As an Autistic, I get easily overwhelmed by loud, chaotic environments like music clubs. In a people-oriented business, missing a social cue, facial expression, or change in tone of voice can have implications that aren’t always obvious in the moment. One of my goals as I work in this space is to build more inclusive and accessible spaces for “neuro-spicy” artists and our supporters.

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Archives: Events

  • End Family Detention Fundraiser

    Join us for a fundraising dinner at the delcious Cook Weaver restaurant to support Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, stand up for our collective humanity, and #EndFamilySeparation Tickets are limited! Joining us is the amazing Sutapa Basu, PhD. Dr. Basu is the executive director of the University of Washington Women’s Center and a national leader and…

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  • Demand Democracy Seattle

    We confront corruption in this moment not to restore old status quo that failed us before now, but to demand a new democracy that truly reflects, responds to, and represents all Americans. Recent self-dealing, conflicts of interest, and attacks on the rule of law have dragged our country to a new low, but the roots…

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  • Poor People’s Campaign Solidarity Saturday in Seattle

    A solidarity event will be held at Plymouth UCC, Saturday, June 23, with 11 am direct action training, 1 pm Rally and 2 pm March. The local march and rally are in support of the mass march and direct action taking place in our nation’s Capital. The campaign also celebrates what has been accomplished over…

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  • WA Poor People’s Campaign Action | A New and Unsettling Force

    Join Us in Olympia, WA, for a rally and nonviolent moral resistance as part of the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. The sixth week’s theme is “A New and Unsettling Force: Confronting the Distorted Social Narrative.” Let us know you’re coming! Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-in-the-washington-state-capital-on-june-18?source=direct_link& If you need carpool or lodging please…

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  • Kshama Solidarity Campaign Launch Party: Speaking Truth to Power

    Join us for the launch of the Kshama Solidarity Campaign! The two police officers who shot and killed Che Taylor in 2016 have re-filed a defamation lawsuit against socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the city of Seattle. This is an attempt to silence activists and individuals from speaking out against racism and police violence.…

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  • Resist Trump Tuesday

    Join us this Tuesday to learn about Trump’s proposed abortion “gag rule.” If adopted, these new administrative rules would deny Title X funds for ANY healthcare a woman receives at a clinic that also offers abortion services or refers patients to any other provider for abortion services. Unable to outlaw abortion, the Trump admin is…

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  • Resist Trump Tuesday

    Join Seattle Indivisible outside the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in Seattle for our weekly resist Trump rally. We have speakers and music, then we go inside and meet with staffers from Murray & Cantwell’s offices. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/pg/SeattleIndivisible/events

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  • Public Hearing: Big Business Tax for Housing, Shelter, Services

    Public Hearing: Big Business Tax for Housing, Shelter, Services

    Hearing starts 6:00 PM Seattle City Hall Council Chambers Arrive early to sign up to testify. The line will probably start forming around 5:00 PM. On April 23rd, City Councilmembers are expected to introduce legislation to fund new low-income housing, shelter, and services through a tax on large businesses like Amazon. That evening at 6:00…

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  • A March and Rally for Billy Langfitt. Unarmed, in Crisis. Killed.

    Help us honor the life of Billy Langfitt and share his story so that his death is not in vain. Help us show our support for his family. Help us educate the public about de-escalation tactics. And help us continue to advocate for crisis intervention training for law enforcement to stop this from happening again!…

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  • Protest: Tax Amazon to Build Affordable Housing

    Seattle is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis; with the price of housing rapidly outstripping many peoples’ ability to pay. Families that were already hanging on by a thread are now without homes, while others wrestle with rents that keep climbing. Every day, we see more of our neighbors turned out into the streets…

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