Grace Kelly (musician)

This article is about the jazz musician. For other uses, see Grace Kelly (disambiguation).

Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
Kelly in 2015
Background information
Birth nameGrace Chung
Born (1992-05-15) May 15, 1992 (age 32)
Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.
OriginBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician, composer, arranger, educator
Instrument(s)Saxophones (alto, soprano, baritone), vocals, Venova
Years active2004–present
LabelsPAZZ Productions
Websitegracekellymusic.com

Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15, 1992)[1] is an American jazz musician, composer, and arranger. Kelly has produced and released recordings of her own, scored soundtracks, and tours with her band. She was named one of Glamour magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2011;[2] and she has been featured on CNN.com[3] and on the NPR radio shows Piano Jazz with both Marian McPartland and Jon Weber, as well as on WBGO's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater.[4]

David Sanborn, Grace Kelly and Marcus Miller

Working professionally since she was a preteen, Kelly was dubbed a prodigy in the jazz world.[3][5][6][7] In 2014, Kelly worked with the producer Stewart Levine on her EP, Working for the Dreamers, which was released in September of that year.[8]

She was featured in the December 2015 issue of Vanity Fair as a significant millennial in the jazz world.[9] Kelly was named "Rising Star – Alto Saxophone" in DownBeat's 2016 Critics Poll.[10] Her Trying to Figure It Out (2016 PAZZ) release was voted the number-two Jazz Album of the Year in the 2016 DownBeat readers' poll.[11]

  1. ^ "Grace Kelly". Jazz at Lincoln Center. Archived from the original on August 25, 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  2. ^ Struhl, Jessica (September 7, 2011). "Top Ten College Women: The Musician". Glamour. Archived from the original on October 26, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  3. ^ a b Leopold, Todd (February 12, 2012). "The making of a prodigy". CNN.com. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  4. ^ "Grace Kelly on NPR". NPR.org.
  5. ^ Was, David. "The New Grace Kelly, A Young Jazz Star". NPR.
  6. ^ Williamson, Don. "GRACEfulLEE by Grace Kelly & Lee Konitz". Jazz Review.
  7. ^ Fischer, Doug. "Grace Kelly in the NAC Fourth Stage (concert review by Doug Fischer)". Ottawa Citizen.
  8. ^ Duckett, Richard. "Grace Kelly offers fresh take on jazz for a new generation". Worcester Telegram. Gatehouse Media. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
  9. ^ Friedwald, Will (November 9, 2015). "These Millennials Are Shaking Up the Jazz World". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  10. ^ Lutz, Phillip (August 2016). "Grace Kelly Jazz Is A Mixable Genre". Downbeat Magazine.
  11. ^ "Jazz Album of the Year". DownBeat. Vol. 83, no. 12. December 2016. p. 38.