Chet Faker Wants To Shave Off His Beard

The beard may seem as much a part of the Nicholas Murphy-created Chet Faker persona as the indie R&B music he produces.  

But it wasn't meant to be that way. Murphy told The Music's Hannah Story that ”the beard was something that I never pushed, I just hadn't shaved…

"I've had mine for four years, they weren't in four years ago. I'd like to shave it off but I'm kind of stuck with it now.”

With his debut album Built On Glass finally out, Murphy now has a long player to equal - even surpass - the long beard. Although he does link his enigmatic reputation to the beard, "I imagine [people] think I'm mysterious just because there's not a lot of bearded musicians, maybe.

“And the mystery that people talk about, I actually think it's a natural byproduct of me not simplifying myself so people can understand me… I think people think I'm mysterious because they don't know anything about me, but that's because I don't go out of my way to tell everything about me because I'm a musician, I'm not a TV personality. I'm not writing my autobiography at 25.

"I think it can be hard to accurately depict a character in the media, and that's how most people know of me, through the media... I just let people do whatever they want with my image. People are pretty funny, they kind of do their own thing, I just keep making music and go at my own pace.”