Jay Som

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Melina Mae Cortez Duterte (born 1994), better known by her stage name Jay Som, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and mixing engineer. Pursuing an indie rock sound, she released her debut studio album Turn Into in mid-2016, followed by Everybody Works in 2017, Anak Ko in 2019, and Belong in 2025.

Born in Walnut Creek, California, Duterte spent her childhood in Pleasanton and Brentwood. She grew up playing the trumpet and guitar, and began writing and recording music at the age of 12. She originally intended to attend a conservatory program for jazz but instead decided to focus on songwriting. Jay Som has toured with Boygenius and released music with Palehound's Ellen Kempner under the band name Bachelor.

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Jay Som, de son vrai nom Melina Mae Cortez Duterte, née le 25 mars 1994 à Walnut Creek, en Californie, est une auteure-compositrice-interprète, multi-instrumentiste, productrice et ingénieure de mixage américaine basée à Los Angeles.

Son premier album Everybody Works est sorti sur Double Denim Records (Royaume-Uni et Japon) et Polyvinyl Records (reste du monde) en mars 2017, précédé de Turn Into, une collection de chansons qui ont d'abord attiré son attention en tant qu'auteure-compositrice-interprète. Le deuxième album home studio de Jay Som, Anak Ko, est sorti le 23 août 2019 via Polyvinyl, Lucky Number et Inertia.

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