These days in music are sad between the economical crisis, the business ever evolving transformation, the boys bands created for screaming teenage girls, you could easily to want to commit a hara-kiri with your ears. But, The Good Lord loves us all and he proves it offering us a Grace. Grace, it’s the name of the band, but also the name of the lead singer Grace Young: the spirit of Bob Marley trapped into an Angelina Jolie look alike. Rarely a name had been so prettily and rightly worn. - Well ok, yeah – you would say- but who is Grace? Here are a few elements to answer that question If the ethylic soul atmospheres of one Amy Winehouse enchant you, if you like Jonie Mitchell folk songs ,or if the sweet pop of Gabrielle Cilmi gives you spots. Then forget about it all! Open up your ears, open up your minds. Mix it up and you will obtain Grace! On stage, she loosens a real energy full of generosity which expresses itself through her warm and velvety stamp of voice. A voice she masters to perfection on the topics dear to her heart: spirituality, the universality in life, and a conscious revolt against injustices. Idealist.
Maybe! But it is there that the magic operates. Amerindian at birth, African at heart, Grace learnt very early the music following her parents, both musicians, around the world. From Dakar, to New Dehli, via Paris and LA, she fils up her music with all the world music influences : khora, reggae rythmes, soul, gospel but also collaborating with famous artists such as Wassis Diop or guitar player Jérome Degey … Her ethnic melting pot is reflected in her compositions. With always the same message: «to communicate and make her humanist and ecological message be heard. . Following the example of John Lennon ‘s "Imagine" it is in her song: "Imagine One
Day" from her first album "Hall Of Mirrors" released in 2008 to Universal / Mercury, whom Grace urges us to rebel against the abuses, « Stand up for freedom the people will lead, stand up for justice or let it be me.” These lyrics speak for themselves upon the energy and the implication of the young lady.
Conscientious and rebel dreamer Grace music is refreshing, different, colored and brings you enjoyment and reflection. Certainly because she speaks to each one of us, you love it or you hate it, the young lady - who indeed speaks perfectly French-, leaves nobody unaffected.
So, when she declares «I just try to give back the world a little bit of what I learnt ". We just want to tell her: "we understand the lesson, very well, Grace and we thank you for it ". Didn’t I tell you that she was Amazing, Grace?
