Grace Kelly (musician)
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Kelly at East West Studios
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Grace Chung |
| Born |
May 15, 1992 Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States |
| Origin | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Genres | Jazz, Blues |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, composer, singer, arranger, educator, singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone, vocals, keyboard, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor saxophone |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | PAZZ Productions/Woodward Ave. |
| Website | gracekellymusic |
Grace Kelly (born Grace Chung; May 15, 1992) is a musician, singer, entertainer, songwriter and arranger. Kelly has collaborated and recorded with many acclaimed musicians in various genres of music, produced and released recordings of her own. Kelly regularly tours with her band. She has scored soundtracks for films and appeared in documentaries. Among her many honors, Kelly was named one of Glamour magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2011; and she has been featured on CNN.com 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.
Working professionally since she was a pre-teen, Kelly has been dubbed a prodigy in the jazz world. In 2014, Kelly worked with the producer Stewart Levine on her EP, Working For The Dreamers which was released in September of that year.
She was featured in the December 2015 issue of Vanity Fair as a notable millennial in the jazz world.
In her eighth year in a row being named to the Downbeat Critics Poll, Kelly won the 2016 64th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll "Rising Star Alto Saxophone"
Born Grace Chung in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Korean parents, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, when she was two years old. Her mother remarried in 1997 to Robert Kelly, who legally adopted Grace a few years later, thus changing her name to Grace Kelly. Kelly wrote her first song "On My Way Home" at age seven.
Kelly left Brookline High School at age 16 and earned her GED. After studying in the Jazz Department of New England Conservatory of Music's School of Preparatory Education, she enrolled at Berklee College of Music, where she graduated in December 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Music at age 19. Kelly studies or has studied saxophone with Jeremy Udden, James Merenda,George Garzone, Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Jerry Bergonzi, and Allan Chase.
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