Grace (musician)
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Grace Young, or more commonly known as Grace, is a Canadian-born, American female musician, signed to Universal Music, who sings folk, reggae, soul, blues-style original songs. She has released one album, Hall of Mirrors. She is the daughter of musician Jonathan Edwards.
Biography
Grace was born in a little cabin in the forest in Nova ScotiaNova Scotia
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, Canada. She grew up traveling on buses because her parents were musicians and part of the peace and love movement
Peace movement
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.
As a child, she moved with her family to Kenya
Kenya
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. When she was older, she lived in Senegal
Senegal
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and Ethiopia
Ethiopia
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. She calls herself a "nomad" because she traveled extensively in Africa, India, Europe and South America.
She currently resides in the South of France, Miami, and New York.
Hall of Mirrors
Her first major-label album, titled Hall of Mirrors, was released in October, 2008, by Mercury / Universal.Recording Hall of Mirrors
Grace wanted to create a mostly acoustic album that "could be played anywhere" without needing "to be plugged in".She decided to record the album "out of the Parisian routine" so she took her band to Ngekhokh, Senegal, near Dakar, where the music was rehearsed with the band in a period of about two weeks.
The whole team then went to Northern California to record the album in Prairie Sun Studio, Cotati, with the sound engineer Oz Fritz.
Track listing
- Lost
- Open Road
- Imagine One Day
- Just Look Away
- Bang Bang
- Gambler
- Working Together
- To The East
- Geisha
- Butterfly
- Go Your Way
- Who Will Tell Them
- New Day
- All You'll Need
Personnel
- Latabi Diouani - Drums and percussion
- Sly Johnson - Backing vocals, Beatbox
- Philippe Aglaé - Backing vocals, percussions
- Linda Rey - Backing vocals
- Jérome Degey - Guitars, bass,
- Oz Fritz - Sound Engineer