A short “About Me” for General Purposes:

Molly Lewis is a singer-songwriter-ukulelist from southern California. She writes humorous-yet-poignant songs about history, popular culture, and current events. Since 2009 she has self-produced 4 albums, including "Thanksgiving Vs. Christmas," an original musical holiday special.

She makes her home in Seattle with her 15 ukuleles.

The Molly Lewis So Far

  • ⭐ 1989 - Born in Long Beach, CA, USA

    ⭐ Self-taught in guitar (2002), mandolin (2003), banjo (2004), and ukulele (2005)

    ⭐ 2007 - Started writing original songs, including “Road Trip” and “MyHope”

  • ⭐ 2007 - Cover of “Toxic” by Britney Spears went viral
    (Do you know how hard it was to get half a million views in 2007?)

    ⭐ 2009 - won Masters Of Song Fu songwriting contest (vs. Paul and Storm + Hank Green) with “Our American Cousin“

    ⭐ 2009 - self-produced first album with Hank Green’s DFTBA Records (their first album too)

    ⭐ 2012 - graduated university and celebrated with live concert, released as album The Same Old Songs (But Live)

    ⭐ 2015 - wrote, staged, & co-starred in semi-biographical holiday special Thanksgiving vs. Christmas

  • ⭐ 2012 - 2015 - Toured with The Doubleclicks, Marian Call, Joseph Scrimshaw; also appeared with Sarah Donner, Danielle Ate The Sandwich

    ⭐ 2013 - Propositioned actor Stephen Fry in song (yes, really)

    ⭐ Appeared at W00tstock (2009 - 2011), DragonCon, San Diego ComicCon, JoCo Cruise (2011-2020), Desert Bus for Hope (2014-2021) Alaska MiniCon, NorWesCon, GenCon, VidCon 1 and VidCon X

    ⭐ 2019 - Hosted LoadingReadyRun’s game show The Panalysts

    ⭐ 2019 - headlined Czech Ukulele Festival

  • ⭐ 2020 - started playing electric ukulele weekly on Twitch

    ⭐ 2022 - “Pantsuit Sasquatch” hits 1 million streams on Spotify

    ⭐ 2022 - wrote for MST3K, childhood dream came true

What people have to say about me:

“self-consciously nerdy and ‘twee’”
- The Stranger

“totally charming and very pretty”
- Stephen Fry