![]() ![]() Kelly wrote her first song "On My Way Home" at age seven. Her mother remarried in 1997 to Robert Kelly, who legally adopted Grace a few years later, thus changing her name to Grace Kelly. The Girl from Ipanema was on repeat in my household when I was a little girl and thought: ‘I wanna learn this one day.’ It’s one of the instruments that’s closest to expressing the human voice.” ![]() And I always felt this very compelling, this feeling, that someone was singing to me. Kelly stated, "Saxophone reminds me of the human voice. She briefly played clarinet and classical piano before finding her voice on the saxophone. Early life and education īorn Grace Chung in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to Korean parents, she moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, when she was 2 years old. ![]() 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. Kelly was named "Rising Star – Alto Saxophone" in DownBeat 's 2016 Critics Poll. She was featured in the December 2015 issue of Vanity Fair as a significant millennial 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. Working professionally since she was a preteen, Kelly was dubbed a prodigy in the jazz world. David Sanborn, Grace Kelly and Marcus Miller ![]()
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