BIO

 
 

IARI MELCHOR BIO

"Music makes you smile. Music makes you believe. Iari IS music." - Wil Rowan, Former Director of the Pacific Art Collective

Iari Melchor aka The Waiting Season, is a singer-songwriter with deep musical roots grounded in Soul, Rock, and Pop and Hip Hop, Funk and Jazz. If that sounds like a lot, it’s because Iari doesn’t like to be confined to writing and performing only one style of music; he loves them all!

His writing and vocal style has been likened to Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway, and those influences are clear on his 2018 EP release, The Reclamation Project. The live, organic instrumentation mixed with synths and breakbeats and complex vocal harmonies scream Songs In The Key of Life!

More recently, as he’s taken a heavier hand in producing his own music, as well as music tracks for other local artists, Iari has been honing in on his own unique sound, and using that to garner a growing fan base, both in the SF Bay Area, and in Nashville, TN, where he now resides.

His recent efforts have a more definitive Soulful Pop and Singer-Songwriter element to them which has been compared to Jason Mraz and Fly By Midnight.

Iari Melchor has won numerous awards for his songwriting, including twice for the West Coast Songwriters International Songwriting Contest for Best Song in the Urban / RnB category in both 2018 and 2021!

Iari Melchor is currently writing and recording songs for his forthcoming EP, which will be released under his new band name, The Waiting Season!

Be sure to follow and stream his original music on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4zyjeFgVb50QhTWe5rUw2A?si=qlsJiqzvSdeTZP0UoZIf3Q 

Photography: Kenny Schick B3PMusic