Matt Kaye

Matt Kaye was born in 1975 in Maribor, Slovenia (EU). He holds a master's degree in comparative literature from the Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He published his first book in 1988 and started combining poetry and music into a singer-songwriter routine in 1992. Between 1998 and 2017 he recorded over 100 albums for various labels in Slovenia and Croatia, participated in nearly every important literary-music festival in Slovenia, worked for Slovenian national radio and other media as a musical connoisseur, and wrote/translated around 70 books as a member of Slovenia's National Writers' Association, PEN Association and National Literary Translators Association. He has written several monographs, including a book on the works of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Slovenian singers Oto Pestner and Lado Leskovar. He has translated poems and wrote professional articles on Alexander Pope, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Kris Kristofferson and many others. He writes musical/literary reviews and articles for many newspapers and reviews in Slovenia, including ''Delo'' (Književni listi), Odzven, Nova muska, Glasna, and Literatura. He is known to play Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, Rickenbacker 620 Maple Glo guitar, a Martin USA 12-string acoustic and several other Fender and Gibson electric and acoustic guitars. Matt Kaye.jpg|Matt Kaye (Matej Krajnc), 2018

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