Mellow Blues

Mellow Blues is a singer, guitarist and songwriter whose music incorporates jazz, blues and rock.

Mellow Blues
Singer-Guitarist | Guitar Lessons

Yat Hamzah, performing as Mellow Blues, is a singer, guitarist, songwriter and guitar teacher from Singapore. His intimate vocals and lyrical guitar playing create a distinctive sound, incorporating elements of jazz, blues, bossa nova, folk and rock, inspired by Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, João Gilberto, Chet Baker and Charlie Christian. Mellow Blues performs as a solo singer-guitarist and offers online guitar lessons via Zoom.

Mellow Blues has performed at renowned venues across the United Kingdom, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, and has graced the stages of festivals such as the Vibe Nation Beach Fest in Vietnam, UNESCO Phuket Jazz Fest, Rammanee Jazz & Blues Festival and Phuket’s International Jazz & Blues Festival in Thailand. He is endorsed by Emiya Guitars and has collaborated with them to design the Mellow Blues archtop guitar series.

As a guitar teacher, Mellow Blues has been teaching since 2010. In 2014 and 2015, two of his students received Certificates of Excellence from Trinity College of London for scoring among the highest in the Trinity Rock & Pop guitar examination. He is certified with Grade 8 in Trinity Rock & Pop Guitar and Grade 5 in ABRSM Music Theory.