Rainie Zenith is a musical artist and a writer of fiction, based in Melbourne, Australia.

MUSIC

Rainie Zenith's colourful take on songwriting thumbs its nose at gratuitous social norms and invites you to celebrate your authentic self.

With music sitting broadly under the banner of pop but flirting with everything from rock to jazz to dance, Rainie Zenith’s sound is consistently praised for its diversity.

She has headlined in Melbourne at the Workers Club in 2022 and at the Celebrate Mooroolbark Festival in 2023. She also performed at the 2023 Hills Ukulele Festival and 2022 Melbourne Ukulele Festival on her signature electro-uke. Her next appearance is at Melbourne's premier live music and networking event eXposure at Pockets Moorabbin on August 31.

Combining an authentic, effervescent stage presence with a diverse catalogue of original music, Rainie Zenith's live shows enthral, engage, and encourage the shedding of inhibitions. Expect a performance that pulses with colour, movement and musical artistry.

"The audience couldn’t get enough of her, dancing around the venue and cheering along.'
- The Real Songwriters of Melbourne

There is as much diversity in Rainie Zenith’s stage set up options as in her songs, ranging from solo ukulele right up to full band and backing, but regardless of format:

“The crowd always love the joyful vibes that radiate from the stage.'
- Micky & Bri, Directors, LOEV

Inspired by a later-in-life positive autism assessment, Rainie Zenith’s 2022 out-of-the-box debut single 'Reasons To Hate Me' struck a chord with the neurodivergent community and charted in Southern FM’s Big Aussie Breakfast Top 45 of the Year. 

Follow up track Pushing Thirty lodged in Canadian KB Radio’s Indie Top 40 for more than 10 weeks, where it peaked at number two.

Piss-Soaked Ecstasy, a piano-driven piece of frenetic fury, charted at number 18 on the publicly voted Wettest 100 countdown of 2023. The Wettest 100 is an alternative fan-voted countdown celebrating left-field Australian music.

Rainie Zenith's debut album Polychrome Renegade drops on August 14. This will be followed by a September east coast tour playing shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Wollongong.

 

WRITING 

With a penchant for pieces that fall broadly within the gothic fantasy realm, Rainie Zenith's work has been published in numerous literary journals and short story anthologies. 

She was the winner of the 2020 Monash Short Story Competition and the Fountain 2020-2021 Essay Contest. 

Her work was also shortlisted in the 2021 Wyndham Writing Awards and highly commended in the 2021 Monash Short Story Competition. 

Rainie acted as a guest judge for Iron Faerie Publishing's 2021 Betwixt Writing Competition, which revolved around a mythical creatures theme. 

Her own stories often feature the esoteric and supernatural, and she enjoys blurring the boundaries between reality and perception. 

Her current project is a gothic psychedelic novel on track for completion in 2024.

Short story A Spark of Envy is due for publication in Tale Publishing's SPARK anthology in August.

What People Say

“What Rainie’s doing is truly authentic. She has her vision, she has the execution, I can’t wait to see what else she brings to the world!”

— Michael DeMarco, Creative Director, Simple Souls Media

“Rainie writes from the heart. Her songwriting skills reflect stories we can relate to in our own lives.”

— Jimmy Dunne, Entertainment Coordinator, Celebrate Mooroolbark Festival

“We absolutely love working with Rainie and her team. They are always super professional and so easy to work with! The crowd always love the joyful vibes that radiate from the stage.”

— Micky & Bri, Directors, LOEV events

“"The audience couldn’t get enough of her, dancing around the venue and cheering along."”

— Real Songwriters of Melbourne, reviewing the Reasons To Hate Me single launch show

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