Inspired by Charlie Parker With Strings, Grace Kelly Pays Homage to Jazz Greats on Grace Kelly with Strings: At The Movies “[A] jazz innovator… Making jazz young” – BILLBOARD “Kelly champions accessibility without sacrificing style.” VILLAGE VOICE “…broad tone and tenacious flow on the alto saxophone, clearly in possession of virtuoso talents… impressive singing voice, … Read More
By Under The Radar Staff, WGBH If you’re a regular listener, you already know that at the beginning of 2020, Under the Radar debuted brand new music. After almost 10 years of the same theme, we wanted to ring in the next decade with a fresh sound. We spent months searching and carefully curating playlists … Read More
Grace Kelly to Continue Acclaimed GO TiME Series With a Live-Recorded Concert on the Berklee Performance Center Stage in Boston on April 10th Special Guest Acclaimed Baritone Saxophonist Leo P Announced! More Special Guests to be Announced Shortly! On Friday April 10th, unequivocal musical prodigy, singer, saxophonist, songwriter and composer Grace Kelly will return to … Read More
Brett Milano, Boston Herald Video game music + jazz = 8-Bit alchemy The 8-Bit Big Band will perform video game music at the Berklee Performance Center Sunday Oct 6, 2019. Photo: Mehdi Hassine. Big-band jazz and video games normally come from different eras, if not different universes. It took Charlie Rosen — Berklee graduate, Broadway … Read More
NEW YORK, New York, September 16, 2019 –Millennial musical phenom Grace Kelly was awarded $20,000 for winning the John Lennon Songwriting Contest ‘Song of the Year’ for her original song “Feels Like Home” today at New York City Hall. Kelly was presented with the award as part of the 6th annual Come Together NYC Tour … Read More
NEW YORK (August 1, 2019)— “Feels Like Home,” a soulful country ballad written by Yamaha Artist and saxophonist Grace Kelly has been named “Song of the Year” in the annual John Lennon Songwriting Contest. The country vocal and instrumental track, featuring Kelly and Thirdstory’s Elliott Skinner, topped thousands of submissions made to the competition from … Read More
Dan Bilawsky, JazzTimes You really have to hand it to saxophonist/vocalist Grace Kelly. Not only is she a fine musician on multiple fronts, she’s also a polished entertainer, a savvy self-promoter, and a real marketing maven. That broad skill set serves her well on this cross-platform project. GO TiME: Live in LA, like its two … Read More
Jeremy D. Goodwin, The Boston Globe Grace Kelly, the Brookline-raised saxophone wunderkind, met Branford Marsalis when she was 13. The first thing he said to her blew her away. “Fred’s told me all about you!” she remembers the eminent musician telling her. The go-between in question was Fred Taylor, the legendary nightclub promoter who has … Read More
Original vocal composition in the Country genre is now a finalist for Song of the Year and the $20,000 Grand Prize in the prestigious international songwriting competition Acclaimed saxophone-singer-composer-bandleader Grace Kelly is celebrating her 27th birthday this year with a major nod from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (JLSC), the preeminent international competition open to … Read More
Matt Micucci, Jazziz Grace Kelly, “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby” Millennial bandleader/singer/saxophonist/composer Grace Kelly released a new video album project called GO TiME: Live in LA on April 12 – the follow-up to her 2018 video album GO TiME: Brooklyn. It features new arrangements of standards and new original music played by a world-class … Read More
