chet faker played under his stage name after people came to his shows thinking he was a different and already established musician, nick murphy. he settled on the name as an homage to chet baker: "i listened to a lot of jazz and i was a big fan of ... the way he sang, when he moved into mainstream singing. he had this really fragile vocal style—this really, broken, close-up and intimate style. the name is kind of just an ode to chet baker and the mood of music he used to play—something i would like to at least pay homage to in my own music." other influences he has cited include bob dylan, as well as his mother's motown albums and his father's "chilled out ibiza cds".