Biography

Cayley Spivey is an American indie-pop guitarist and singer-songwriter born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina now based out of Los Angeles, California. They began their career performing as a solo project known as Small Talks, recording and touring internationally as a three-piece band. Under the Small Talks name, Spivey released the EP Until It Turns to Petals in 2017. The project's first full-length studio album A Conversation Between Us was released on February 1, 2019, via Common Ground Records. In August 2020, Spivey announced they would be releasing new music full-time under their own name and retiring the Small Talks moniker. In conjunction with that announcement, Spivey released "SFU", their first single using their given name. On October 26, 2020, Spivey released their second single under their own name, "Not Over You Yet". Their third single, "Cross The Line", was released on March 19, 2021. The singles "Bad For Each Other", "Ordinary", and "Backseat Boyfriend" were released during the winter of 2021 and 2022. They also identify as pansexual, and refer to their sexuality – as well as their gender – as an integral piece of their sound, stating "a lot of my songs are inspired by relationships that I've had, and that comes from me being LGBTQ." They have embraced viral social media video app TikTok both as a music artist and as an LGBTQ performer, garnering 164,000 followers in their first year on the platform and increasing to 275,000 by spring 2021.