Cady Groves
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Cady Groves performing in 2010
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July 30, 1989 Marlow, Oklahoma, United States |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
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| Associated acts | Secondhand Serenade, Stephen Jerzak, Plug In Stereo, Andrew de Torres |
| Website | cadygroves |
Cady Groves (born July 30, 1989) is an American singer and songwriter from Marlow, Oklahoma. Some of her notable songs are "Dreams," "Crying Game," "This Little Girl," "Forget You," and "Love Actually." She has released four EPs since 2012 - A Month of Sundays, This Little Girl, Life of a Pirate, and Dreams. Her latest effort Dreams was released in 2015 for free download in honor of her fans.
Groves was born on July 30, 1989, to Carol Pettit and Larry Groves and is the youngest of seven. Her full siblings are Kevan Groves, Casey A. Groves, Cody W. Groves, Kyle Groves, Kelly D. Groves, and Kelsy Groves. She also has 3 more half-siblings, Adam Groves, Courtney Farmwald and Carrie Groves. Growing up in relatively small cities like Marlow, Lawton, OK and Emporia, Kansas, after her parents divorced, Groves would turn on Christina Aguilera's Genie In A Bottle in her room and sing along from the inside of her closet, because she didn't want any of her family members hear her attempts to match the melismas. One day, when her mother was outside cleaning the family's pool in the backyard, Groves marched outside and declared that she was going to be the next Britney Spears. Groves graduated from high school when she was just 16, and while she was keenly interested in songwriting, her family discouraged her from making music a career, and she instead attended and graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Groves was inspired to follow her dreams after the death of her brother, and she began focusing on her songwriting, initially intending to present her work to other artists to record. But when a session vocalist failed to show up after Groves booked time to record demos of her latest batch of songs, Groves sang them herself with the encouragement of the engineers on the session, and the material grew into Groves' first independent EP, 2009's A Month of Sundays. Another EP, The Life of a Pirate, followed in 2010, and as her social media pages began attracting impressive traffic, several major record labels began bidding for her services. In 2010, Groves signed with RCA, and set out on her first nationwide concert tour, opening a package show that featured Third Eye Blind, Good Charlotte, and All Time Low. Groves eventually left RCA and signed with New York-based independent label Vel Records, where the focus shifted to writing music she was truly passionate about. In May 2015, Groves returned with a new self-released single and video for the song Crying Game, a dark, personal song inspired by her tumultuous childhood and strained family relationships. Groves released her Vel Records debut EP Dreams for free download in October 2015, which Groves told PopCrush.com “is a testament to the support of her listeners, whose encouragement has been a driving force behind the EP’s development.” DreamsIhas been downloaded over 100,000 times via Soundcloud, and a music video for the title track premiered at FUSE.tv in October 2015, and also saw success at CMT and MTV. Shortly after, Groves embarked on a 30-market High School Nation Tour, where she performed for over 50,000 high school students.
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