Matthew Jordan Hemerlein[1] (born 20 October 1983),[2][3][4] better known by the stage name Lo-Fang, is a singer-songwriter and classically trained musician.
[8] He is classically trained and can play a number of instruments including: piano, cello, guitar, violin, and string bass.
[12] In 2010, he self-released an album under his birth name that was recorded in a month with the help of a grant from DC Commission on Arts and Humanities called 'Hot Nickels' [10] and in spring of 2011 opened for British folk duo Smoke Fairies in London.
He was booked for a number of appearances, including solo performance in Berlin and opening for James Vincent McMorrow in Cologne.
While developing Blue Film from a mixtape to a full-fledged album, Lo-Fang collaborated with Grammy-winning producer François Tétaz.
He and his siblings were home schooled by their mother until age 13[5] at their Columbia, MD farmhouse surrounded by a menagerie of chickens, dogs, cats and eight bee apiaries.
[12] He attended Loyola University New Orleans but after contracting Lyme disease, returned to his home in Maryland, where he started teaching guitar and piano to children in Baltimore.