Charlee Remitz is an award-winning singer-songwriter, writer, producer, mixing engineer, and content creator currently on a mission to see every lighthouse in the United States. Her catalogue has amassed over two million streams cross-platform and made appearances in every major music magazine, including Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Alternative Press, Earmilk, and LA Weekly, as well as popular Bravo and E! network TV shows, Bad Girls Club, Total Divas, and Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
Lauded for her personal, and often blunt, lyricism, Remitz took a step back from pop music in 2020, after touring the West Coast and releasing her final studio album,
Heaven’s a Scary Place, which saw multiple placements on Spotify-curated playlists, including
New Music Friday.In January 2021, with more space and time than she knew what to do with, she set out on a personal journey to see every lighthouse in California, spending eight odd months driving up and down the golden coast, not knowing this small taste of obscure adventure would inspire a much larger search for all 800 of the lighthouses still mostly standing on U.S. soil.
In 2024, with over 400 lighthouses seen world-wide, and inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s concept of “self-loss”, Remitz returned as the genderless, ageless, self-proclaimed “nonentity” Blue Monkey, carving out a space in the indie-pop continuum for eleven-minute debut, “Pylons,” a song about transcendence, endurance, and the fatigue of dreaming. Ten months later, Blue Monkey’s debut album, Ageless, was released, with several singles earning highly sought after placements on Apple Music- and Vevo- curated playlists. Remitz described the project as a “lament.” “I don’t want to grow old,” she continued, “but I’m going to. It seems to me that the world’s most major issues could be resolved if only we found a way to live in this truth: We will never be ageless. But we can be conscious.”
Remitz is currently oscillating between lighthouse hunting, posting politically-charged commentary online, and recording her upcoming unnamed album at Don of Pop Studios in Richmond, VA. While these pursuits may seem wildly different on the surface, you’ll find a certain throughline in all that Charlee Remitz does: keeping the light, which is to say: speaking the truth, no matter the cost. After a six-year hiatus, Charlee Remitz is back with "Paranoid", out May 29th.
