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Trey Fanjoy | |
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| Origin | North Carolina, U.S. [1] |
| Occupation(s) | Music video director |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
Trey Fanjoy is an American music video director. [2] [3] Fanjoy has directed over 150 major label music videos. Her videos have appeared on CMT, VH1, GAC, The Nashville Network, CMT Canada, and MTV. She is the first woman to win the Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year and to date, the only woman to win the award twice and one of two people to win the award three times.
Trey Fanjoy was born in North Carolina. She moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s to pursue a career in acting, and worked as a waitress to support herself financially while doing so. At this point she also took an interest in directing and moved to Nashville where she lived with songwriter Tammy Hyler. In the meantime, Fanjoy worked as a receptionist at RCA Records Nashville, where she was consulted by Jon Randall's manager Monty Hitchcock to correct the lighting on Randall's music video "I Came Straight to You". Hyler introduced Fanjoy to music video director Jon Small, who selected her as producer on videos that he directed. Fanjoy made her directorial debut in 1997 with the video for "Heart Hold On" by The Buffalo Club. From there, she went on to direct videos for Lonestar, Keith Urban, and Billy Gilman among others. [1]
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| Year | Association | Nomination | Artist | Song Title | Outcome |
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| 2003 | CMT Flameworthy Awards | Breakthrough Video of the Year | Emerson Drive | "Fall into Me" | Nominated |
| 2004 | Canadian Country Music Association Awards | CMT Music Video of the Year | "Last One Standing" | Nominated | |
| 2006 | CMT Music Awards | Breakthrough Video of the Year | Miranda Lambert | "Kerosene" | Nominated |
| Female Video of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Video Director of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Academy of Country Music | Music Video of the Year | Nominated | |||
| Lee Ann Womack | "I May Hate Myself in the Morning" | Nominated | |||
| 2007 | CMT Music Awards | Breakthrough Video of the Year | Taylor Swift | "Tim McGraw" | Won |
| Academy of Country Music Awards | Music Video of the Year | George Strait | "The Seashores of Old Mexico" | Nominated | |
| 2008 | CMT Music Awards | Female Video of the Year | Taylor Swift | "Our Song" | Won |
| Video of the Year | Won | ||||
| MTV Video Music Awards | Best New Artist | "Teardrops on My Guitar" | Nominated | ||
| Country Music Association Awards | Music Video of the Year | Alan Jackson | "Good Time" | Nominated | |
| CMT Music Awards | Video Director of the Year | — | — | Nominated | |
| 2009 | Country Music Association Awards | Music Video of the Year | Taylor Swift | "Love Story" | Won |
| CMT Music Awards | Female Video of the Year | Won | |||
| Video of the Year | Won | ||||
| Video Director of the Year | — | — | Won | ||
| 2010 | Country Music Association Awards | Video of the Year | Miranda Lambert | "The House That Built Me" | Won |
| 2020 | "Bluebird" | Won |
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