April Kae

April Kae is an American bassist, singer, songwriter and producer. April was born in Austin, Texas, and works in New York City and Los Angeles.

Early life Kae was exposed to the arts through her mother's work as a music teacher and a vocalist and her father was an instrumentalist during her adolescence. Kae joined the school orchestra playing upright bass at 12. She continued combining activism and music as a young teen organizing fundraising concerts for various charitable causes, such as raising money for refugees of the genocide in Darfur and for displaced peoples from Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.

Career

Music In 2025, April Kae performed alongside artist SAINTt JHN as a featured instrumentalist during his set at Coachella Music Festival.

FEVER 333 April Kae is the current bass player for American rock band, Fever 333. Kae joined the summer of 2023 for their European tour dates. So far, in 2024, April played with Fever 333 as the Sunday headliner at the 2024 X Games in Ventura. Kae is currently set to join Fever 333 on 2025 US tour dates, which include Warped Tour 2025.

Music Content Kae went viral on Instagram after posting a bass cover of the Cardi B song “Up”. At the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation event, ‘The “#guitartok” Effect’ in July 2022, April was a featured panelist along with several others, who gathered to discuss TikTok's effect on the music industry as well as the changing landscape of guitar culture. In 2023, as part of her continued her partnership with Fender, April helped launch the Vintera II Series for Fender. Most recently, April was one of the four featured artists in Fender's 2024 "The All New Player II Series" launch, which included a full-scale video campaign in which each artist performed a rendition of "All Day & All of the Night" by The Kinks.

Recognition and Partnerships In the past several years, April Kae has been recognized by her peers within the music community in the form of lists, awards, and partnerships. In 2025, April was named as an official Gallien-Krueger Artist. In 2024 Kae was named one of Distorted Sound's "Five Influential Women Leading Rock Music." Also in 2024, Kae partnered with Meta and attended the Variety Hitmaker's Awards Brunch. That same year, in partnership with Positive Grid and She Rocks, Kae served as a featured as part of a panel discussion with several other musicians in honor of International Women's Day. In 2023, Kae was named in Go Magazine's "100 Women We Love: Class of 2023." April Kae was invited to A Celebration of Women in Music: A Pre-Grammy Celebration in 2023, where she received the Woman's Worth Award alongside Nik West and Divinity Roxx.

Other prominent collaborations include a 2023 brand partnership, which included a large-scale commercial, print, and ad campaign with hair company Clairol. The “It’s So Me,” campaign featured Kae, saying she “represents a connection to the modern Clairol woman…” Clariol called Kae, and the other women involved with the campaign, “authentic, self-reliant, and unafraid to be one’s true self.”

Kae was also featured in Vogue Magazine in 2021, and graced the covers of several magazines including, Bass Player, Guitar Girl Magazine, Nylon and NYC Pride Guide 2020. The It Gets Better Project, a nonprofit uplifting LGBTQIA+ youth, shared a video profile of Kae as part of their initiative highlighting prominent Queer voices.

Other ventures

IMANIGOLD (2013-2023) IMANIGOLD is both the name of the band, as well as the name of the art and social justice collective created by April and Nikki Kae, which includes a digital publication that discusses a range of social justice issues. April Kae wrote, sang, produced, and played bass for the band IMANIGOLD, and Nikki Kae was the visual director for the band, as well as contributing to the vocals, guitar, and writing.