Nyah Grace,出生于美国,欧美R&B歌手。Simon Redley如此评价她:
Nyah Grace has got something. Only 18, an American now relocated to London.
Writing with and produced by some decent names with sterling pedigrees. Even collaborating with the wonderful Corrine Bailey Rae.
Yes this young soul and r&b singer songwriter really does have something.
Debut album “Honey Coloured” is this young lady’s calling card for her grand entrance into the business of music, out in June.
Inspired by the likes of Lauryn Hill, D’Angelo and Estelle, Nyah blends neo-soul, old skool soul and r&b with jazz flavours. An impressive vocal instrument and she knows how to use it. Good control and no showboating vocal fireworks required.
Her singles “Black Coffee” (she was 14 when she wrote this!) and “Sunday” got tongues wagging, and her name mentioned in the same breath as Billie Holiday and the aforementioned Corinne Bailey Raye, who has co-written a song on this album where she also duets. Double A-sided single “Sooner Or Later” and “I Just Wish You’d Call Me”, both pop up on the album.
Nyah was spotted by a manager who flew her and her Mother over to the UK, to work with the Grammy-nominated Steve Chrisanthou (Corinne Bailey Rae, Lianne La Havas) and Michael Kwesi Graves. Nyah spent a year here working on the record, and then moved over here permanently at the age of 17.
Nyah Grace grew up on her grandparents’ farm in rural Oregon, with lots of animals and wide-open spaces. As a child, she wanted to be Selena Gomez or Taylor Swift, but discovering Billie Holiday and Alicia Keys in her early teens changed that.
Shutting herself away in the farm’s basement, she taught herself piano and began to write songs, and then learned a computer recording programme to transform those ideas into demos. She asked for singing lessons when she was six, but she was too young to get a tutor, so a little later she began lessons until she was a teenager. Nyah knew what she would do with her life…
At 13 she found jazz, Billie Holiday in fact, and fell in love with the genre