"Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling.  She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt that is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician."  WYNTON MARSALIS

Grace Kelly - voice, sax, Viktors Ritovs - piano, Andris Grunte - bass, Normunds Piesis - trumpet, Rihards Fedotovs - drums

Born Grace Chung on May 15, 1992 in Wellesley, Massachusetts to Korean parents, Grace moved to Brookline, MA when she was two years old with her mother and sister after her parents divorced. Grace's mother married Robert Kelly in 1997 and a few years later Grace and her sister Christina were legally adopted by her stepfather and thus her name became Grace Kelly.
    
Awards:
-    Winner " Outstanding Jazz Act Of The Year" and "Best Jazz Act" 2008 Boston Music Awards;
-    Recipient of the Brad Delp Rising Star Award - Limelight Magazine Music Awards;
-    Winner of four 2008 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards;
-    2007/2008 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composers Award;
-    Recipient of the 2007 Berklee College of Music Superior Musicianship Award;
-    Winner of 2007 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Award;
-    Winner 2007 Lionel Hampton Jazz Award;
-    International Songwriting Competitions in 2006 /2007;
-    Four 2006 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards;

Grace released five albums: "Mood Changes" (2009); "GracefulLee" (2008); "Every Road I Walked" (2006); "Times Too" (2005); "Dreaming" (2004). Performed with many jazz giants like Wynton Marsalis, Jerry Bergonzi, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Keith Lockhart, Cedar Walton, Jimmy Heath, Randy Brecker, Rufus Reid, Donald Brown and others.

 "How did she sound? I gave her my hat! That is how good she sounded! She is the first alto player to get one. Hooray for the future of jazz and the alto sax!" PHIL WOODS