# Jay Som · Producer, Mixing Engineer, Songwriter, Multi-Instrumentalist · OBRA

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Jay Som · Jay Som is the recording alias of Melina Duterte (born 1994, Walnut Creek, California), a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and mixing

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## Jay Som

Producer ·   Mixing Engineer ·   Songwriter

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# Jay  Som

PRODUCER ·   MIXING ENGINEER ·   SONGWRITER ·   MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST

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Jay Som is the recording alias of Melina Duterte (born 1994, Walnut Creek, California), a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and mixing engineer. She began writing and recording as Jay Som in 2015, self-recording debut cassettes from her bedroom that led to a deal with Polyvinyl Records. Her critically acclaimed albums Everybody Works (2017) and Anak Ko (2019) cemented her reputation as an indie pop visionary, with the 2025 record Belong — featuring Paramore's Hayley Williams and Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins — marking her long-awaited return. Beyond her solo work, Duterte has built an equally impressive career as a producer and engineer for other artists: she co-produced boygenius' acclaimed self-titled EP, produced Chastity Belt albums, engineered for Lucy Dacus and Vagabon, and toured as bassist with boygenius in 2023. Tenderness has accumulated over 17 million Spotify streams. Jay Som has 371K monthly listeners and 147K followers on Spotify, and her music has been featured by NPR, Pitchfork, and The New York Times.

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JAY SOM Portrait · 2018–PRESENT

▸ VERIFIED STREAMS 60.692.201 TOTAL · 61M

18 DAYS · Total

Releases 8

Years active 2018–PRESENT

This week  · ▲ 0.1% · 9K/day

Streams this week +63.837 61M TOTAL

Best day +519K Jul 19

Spotify +64K 100% OF TOTAL · 7D

YouTube — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

SoundCloud — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

FASTEST GROWING
What You Need ▲ 1.7%  Past Lives ▲ 0.8%  Trouble - from ‘Three Months’ ▲ 0.1%

Trending this week  · 5 climbing

Last records broken  · 2 milestones

Milestones  · 1 milestone

60M CATALOG · streams
Jay Som Aug 2026

Top tracks  · Ranked by streams · 8

Collaborators  · 1 artists

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Jay Som

8 tracks · 60.7M

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## OBRA BY JAY SOM

8 RELEASES

ROLE

### 2025

3 releases

### 2022

1 release

### 2020

1 release

### 2019

2 releases

### 2018

1 release

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Bio

Jay Som is the recording alias of Melina Duterte (born 1994, Walnut Creek, California), a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and mixing engineer. She began writing and recording as Jay Som in 2015, self-recording debut cassettes from her bedroom that led to a deal with Polyvinyl Records. Her critically acclaimed albums Everybody Works (2017) and Anak Ko (2019) cemented her reputation as an indie pop visionary, with the 2025 record Belong — featuring Paramore's Hayley Williams and Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins — marking her long-awaited return. Beyond her solo work, Duterte has built an equally impressive career as a producer and engineer for other artists: she co-produced boygenius' acclaimed self-titled EP, produced Chastity Belt albums, engineered for Lucy Dacus and Vagabon, and toured as bassist with boygenius in 2023. Tenderness has accumulated over 17 million Spotify streams. Jay Som has 371K monthly listeners and 147K followers on Spotify, and her music has been featured by NPR, Pitchfork, and The New York Times.

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